Workshop
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Best Practice Transfer and Replications
DELGOSEA has selected 16 good governance Best Practices from partner countries and been facilitating the transnational transfer and replication activities of selected Best Practice by pilot cities:
Cambodia: Choam Chao, Kampot
Indonesia: Kupang, Pangkal Pinang, Tarakan
Philippines: Bacolod City, Misamis Oriental, Pangasinan Alliance of LGUs
Thailand: Chiang Rai City, Songkla City, Yala City
Vietnam: Da Nang, Tra Vinh, Vinh
The project's four selected areas of Best Practices are: People's participation in Planning and Decision-Making; Institutional Governance; Urban Environment; and Fiscal Management and Investment Promotion. Kampot Municipality has been replicating the BP on "Urban Environment" and Sangkat Choam Chao on " Fiscal Management and Investment Promotion by Street Vendor Organizing". These are the key priorities of the pilots cities to replicate among 16 BPs which Delgosea project has identified through participatory exercises.
Project Progress
First Step: all activities implemented in 2010
Identification for Best practices and Pilot Municipalities
Selection of Best Practices in 5 countries
Selection of Pilot Municipalities in 5 countries
Documentation of Best Practices
Development of Curricula and Textbooks for training of Trainers of Local Government Associations
Training of Coaches in Pataya, Thailand
Second Step: BP Transfer and Capacity Building for Pilot Places (2011)
Capacity building at Kampot Municipality and Sangkat Choam Chao
Exchange visits between pilot and host municipalities
Implementation of Best Practices models at Kampot Municipality and Sangkat Choam Chao
Monitoring, follow up, consulting by experts on Best Practices during Kampot Municipality and Sangkat Choam Chao's BP implementation
National Workshop Objectives
The National Workshop aims to:
Finalise policy recommendations
Concretise steps for lobby and advocacy activities (who is going to lobby, when with whom – develop a concrete roadmap for the year 2012)
Develop ideas for a country strategy ensuring the sustainability of best practice transfer in your country
Identify a contact person either per LGA or within the partner organisation who will be responsible for the identification of best practices within your country;
How to make available best practice documentation to the DELGOSEA secretariat after the project has ended?
How will best practices be shared with other cities?
How the knowledge exchange and lessons-learned could be spread amongst cities?
How continuous support for the pilot cities could be continued?
Outcomes:
Finalised Paper on Policy Recommendations
Finalised Paper on Country Strategy