Parallel Event

Thursday, 7 June 2001, at 11am - 1pm, in Conference Room 8
at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
Mayors, associations of local authorities and international development support organisations will meet to discuss
the future of city-to-city cooperation.
Come, let us hear your opinion or come,
listen to what other practitioners have to say.

Through a new partnership between the Associations of Local Authorities and the United Nations
city-to-city cooperation
may become the international development approach of the future.

Join city representatives who will talk about the benefits of
city-to-city learning and mutual support
and the representatives of international organisations who will talk about the broad range of options for supporting cities in their cooperation.

Participate in launching and reviewing the findings and recommendations of a new publication on
city-to-city cooperation:
issues arising from experience
(advance copies available in Msword and PDF)

Review with us the benefits and bottlenecks
of city-to-city cooperation and help us
chart the way forward
towards a comprehensive inventory, up-to-date data base and web site, and a regular global forum on city-to-city cooperation.

Meet the panel, chaired by Joan Clos, Mayor of Barcelona and President of WACLAC with Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Executive Director UNCHS (Habitat), Reinhart Helmke, Executive Director UNOPS, Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca, Mayor of Acapulco and President of Aalmac, Christian Feuillet, Deputy President of Region Ile de France, Paolo Costa, Mayor of Venice, Ayyoub Rabah, Mayor of Ramallah, Clr. A. Masono, Mayor of Greater Johannesburg, and Yves Ducharme, Mayor of Hull expected. (Marcelo Noversztern of UTO will serve as facilitator)