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COV01b


Decentralization and health crisis management: crossed African-European views on local resilience in the face of major crises due to COVID 19 and other global pandemics II 
Convenors:
Ewald Eisenberg (University of Applied Sciences Kehl)
Mamane DJIBO (Université Abdou Moumouni)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Corona crisis and new world views
Location:
Room 1231
Sessions:
Wednesday 8 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

For African municipalities COVID was and is a huge challenge. The panel treats lessons learned from the pandemic situation for African local governments in comparison to their European counterparts: organizational, social, financial and other means of action in order to prevent further disruptions.

Long Abstract:

African countries are engaged in a movement of decentralization in order to stimulate inclusive socio-economic development and make the most of their potentials.

With COVID and also other scourges such as Ebola, new challenges have been created for young municipalities all over Africa.

People are affected in their health and local territories are hit by containments and decline in economic production. The pandemic has highlighted the importance of public services which worked in a context of total uncertainty and were forced to make difficult choices from a social and economic point of view.

Thus, to be better prepared for future crises, it is opportune to share strategies put in place by African municipalities and their European counterparts to anticipate, react and adapt to the disruptions created by health crises as well as to compare the approaches to effectively continue the missions of promotion of local development.

The objective of the panel will be to highlight different practices and share African and European experiences.

It will be a question of learning lessons of the situation created by the pandemic and issuing recommendations on the means of action in order to prevent further disruptions. We will try to learn about the administrative and financial organization of local governments and their legal status to deal with this kind of scourge. Many relevant elements, which justify research, from a critical and constructive perspective,in order to to analyze the management and practices of local stakeholder in the face of a major threat to local development.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 8 June, 2022, -