The president of the Ivorian Senate Ahoussou Jeannot Kouadio-received Tuesday 1 st June 2021, the Executive Director of the Global Fund for Cities Development, Jean-François Habeau to discuss setting implementation of the 2030 agenda on local authorities.

The State of Côte d’Ivoire intends to ensure that local authorities participate actively in the development of the country through the development and implementation of a 2030 agenda articulated around six strategic axes.

This involves ensuring the representation of local authorities by the Senate, making effective the transfer of powers and resources from the State to local authorities, promoting decentralized cooperation and international action by local authorities, ensuring citizen participation in the management of local authorities, ensuring the involvement of local authorities in the fight against climate change and the transition of territories and improve the status of local elected representatives.

At the end of the meeting with the No. 1 of the Senate, Jean-François Habeau told the press that the discussions focused on the implementation of the 2030 agenda and the transformation of these recommendations into a national program for communities territorial.

“The idea is to develop a transversal program with all the Ivorian and local authorities to meet the expectations for a strengthening of local authorities but also to be aligned by the objectives set by this agenda”, he noted, specifying that this agenda is aligned with the United Nations global calendars.

The Director of Cooperation, Territorial Communities and Ivorians living outside Côte d’Ivoire of the Senate, Kouakou Réné Dossan stressed that it is a question of seeing at the legislative level, what can be done to support the process of decentralization.

He also announced that the institution is preparing to organize another forum with Ivorians living outside Côte d’Ivoire with the theme of the attractiveness of the territories and the contribution of the diaspora, the specific case of the Côte d’Ivoire. ivory.

The Senate has been the upper chamber of the Parliament of Côte d’Ivoire since the adoption of the Third Republic in 2016. It ensures the representation of local authorities and Ivorians living outside Côte d’Ivoire.

Source: Agence Ivoirienne de presse