The Cluster Decentralisation has published a new advisory strategy that was launched on 13 May 2014 during an expert talk organised on behalf of GIZ and the Forum of Federations in Eschborn. During the event, professionals and academics discussed

David Edelmann, head author of the strategy and coordinator of GIZ’s Decentralisation Cluster, presented the most important features of the strategy and stressed that GIZ’s support to decentralisation reform processes is geared – in accordance with the subsidiarity principle – towards the model of a citizen-centred and citizen-oriented state. Decentralised government entities work more closely with the local population and can therefore involve them more directly in decision-making and planning processes. At the same time, they can deliver the most urgently needed public services – from water supply to support for economic activity – locally, efficiently and in line with regional conditions.  
The panel discussion, facilitated by Dr. Ute Böttcher (GIZ) with panellists Dr. Albrecht Stockmayer (GIZ); Prof. Dr. Georg Milbradt (Forum of Federations, ex-prime minister of Saxony), Dr. Christian von Haldenwang (German Development Institute), Francois Menguele (GIZ) and Anke Borggraefe (GIZ), shed light on the role of decentralisation in German development cooperation. The GIZ has been supporting decentralisation reform processes worldwide for almost three decades and is now one of the world’s leading partners for effecting reforms in this dynamic field. Especially the concrete experiences with federal state-building and local self-government in Germany, lend credibility to German development activities. Decentralisation processes are, however, highly political and diverse processes that need to be adjusted to the specific context of each country.

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