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The
International Forum “Rethinking the City” carried out in Montreal on 27 June
2002, gathered a large number of high-level policy makers and business
representatives from LAC, Canada and Italy.
The event provided a good platform for speakers, mostly local governments
and the private sector, to openly express and then illustrate their views
regarding local governance, focusing on the interaction of public and private
sectors.
Federico
Burone, IDRC Regional Director –former EMS Executive Director- opened the
event and gave the floor to the plenary session discussions. All participants
proposed creative and original ideas from different angles on the environmental
approach and local sustainable development regarding the public-private
partnership in the cities.
The
event gathered a significant audience (around 150 participants including
consultancy companies, students, and civil society) attracted by the speakers’
highly qualified level.
The
Mayor of Valparaiso Mr. Pinto Miranda, also Executive Director of the
Mercocities Network, who was expected to be one of the great animators of this
event, missed the occasion due the emergency state declared in his city as
consequence of the massive floods and landslides that affected the central
Chilean region a few week before. EMS expresses its full solidarity to the
Mayor and the citizens of Valparaiso. Aiming at mitigating fatal
consequences for the populations affected by natural disasters, the IADB is
considering for approval a project to be signed together with the EMS. Its
inicial phase will benefit householders and Municipalities in four countries of
Central America.
On
the framework of this Forum, the EMS proposes the creation of an international
council (Canadian-LAC-Italian) for the promotion of the multi-stakeholder
committee for local sustainable development formed by local government
associations, the private sector, research centres, financial institutions and
civil society.
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