Haïti: décentraliser pour mieux reconstruire | Le Devoir

Haïti: décentraliser pour mieux reconstruire | Le Devoir

Emerald | International Journal of Public Sector Management | Performance management for participatory democracy: thoughts on the transformation process in South African local government

Un article scientifique sur la gestion locale dans les pays du Sud

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=867856&show=abstract&PHPSESSID=dujlf9g509o2vj1ki14ootp641&&nolog=146454

Mumbai, Inde: Civic body forms panel to revive citizens’ groups

The civic body wants to revive the Advanced Locality Management (ALM) groups in the city in order to promote citizens’ initiatives. It has formed a core committee comprising members of different ALMs, civic officials and Srikrishna Bhagwant, officer on special duty in charge of ALMs, so that the citizens’ groups and the civic body can share experiences and draw up a plan to increase co-ordination and step up ALM activities. There are more than 750 ALMs in the city, but there have been new registrations with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the last two years

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Civic-body-forms-panel-to-revive-citizens-groups/Article1-585446.aspx

Les TIC et les réseaux sociaux pour une nouvelle gouvernance caribéenne et la reconstruction d'Haïti | Association pour le progrès des communications

Par Daniel Pimienta pour Funredes

SAINT DOMINGUE, République Dominicaine, 26 juillet 2010

CARDICIS3 est un projet mis en place par l’Union latine , avec le soutien de l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), dont la réalisation a été confiée à “FUNREDES”, le membre caraibien du réseau APC, avec la collaboration solidaire du GHRAP en Haïti. Il constitue une suite cohérente des actions conduites par FUNREDES, depuis 2004, sous le nom de CARDICIS , dans la perspective d’une société de l’information caraibienne sous le signe d’une meilleure intégration régionale.

CARDICIS3 n’est pas un projet de plus pour la refondation d’Haïti mais plutôt une sorte de méta-projet qui vise à augmenter l’efficacité des projets et initiatives existants, en les recentrant sur la composante culturelle, en soulignant l’importance de la participation citoyenne et en offrant des alternatives pratiques d’articulation.

Pour la suite du texte: http://www.apc.org/fr/news/les-tic-et-les-reseaux-sociaux-pour-une-nouvelle-g

The Quiet Revolution: Venezuelans experiment with participatory democracy

By Andrew Kennis

Members of the 13 de Abril communal council, located in the worker residential district 23 de Enero in Caracas, deliberate over and plan community development projects. (Photo courtesy of Sílvia Leindecker)

Communal councils are an effort to combat red tape and the corruption related to it. They are also the product of a long history of movement politics.

Selling goods to passersby on the street, Jenny Caraballo describes her local communal council. “Some of our members are homemakers who want their community to be pretty,” Caraballo says while trying to make eye contact with potential clients in 23 de Enero, a barrio popular that is one of many rough areas in Caracas, Venezuela.
The balmy weather southwest of Caracas, in the state of Táchira, does not stop Pedro Hernandez, 77, from playing chess with his retired friends in San Crist—bal’s city square. “Before, the government didn’t help the people,” he says. “Now they give us benefits. “Now there is culture, dance and programs free to the public and organized by our communal council.” Hernandez does his part by organizing chess tournaments.
And in the picturesque mountain town of Merida, Alidio Sosa says: “The councils are a symbol of how the old parties are dead and won’t ever come back—the parties of the past never concerned themselves with the community.”
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s megalomaniac president who has spearheaded the country’s Bolivarian revolution and garnered so much attention, is not the only one shaking up the country’s political system. A community-based revolution is underway in Venezuela. Ordinary people all over are changing how their communities are governed.

Pour l’intégralité du texte: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6202/the_quiet_revolution

Une ONG sud-africaine

Cette ONG locale s'intéresse à la gouvernance locale et à la démocratie participative, entre autres.

http://www.afesis.org.za/Features/history

L'impensé démocratique de la réforme territoriale

Un essai sur la place de la démocratie dans la gouvernance locale – cas de la France

http://www.laviedesidees.fr/L-impense-democratique-de-la.html

Les meilleures pratiques des ONG - réseau de l'ONU

This section contains a number of innovative and successful best practices from non-governmental organizations and UN entities around the world.

In this section, NGOs can view and rate best practices in specific fields of work, network with organizations around the word, and promote their own work to a global audience. Users can also submit photographs representative of their work which will be available for fellow users to browse.

Users can also browse best practices on the World Map, which marks regional best practices with photographs and a description of the project.

http://esango.un.org/irene/?section=2&type=2