In this final edition of the year, we highlight three important news items, a selected reading and an opinion piece offering strategic analysis. A summary designed to help you end the year with perspective.
NEWS
Ecuador Monopolizes the 10th Edition of The Good Regional Practices Prizes.
The tenth edition of the Good Regional Practices Bank Prize, summoned by ORU Fogar, together with the United Nations Program for Development (UNPD), has broken all participation records, with the highest number of presented projects since its creation...
In Senegal, “territorial sovereignty” is considered as the key for African future.
Last 4th of November, in the opening of the Sixth International Forum on Participative Democracy in Africa (FIDEPA06), held in Dakar, the main responsibles of the African territory agreed that decentralisation and participative democracy are the best answer to political, economic and social challenges in the continent...
The FSC 53 warns that the SDO “Zero Hunger” will not be achieved before 2030.
The world remains far away from the number two Sustainable Development Objective, “Zero Hunger”. This is the main warning that has presided over the opening of the 53rd session of the Committee on Global Food Security (FSC53), celebrated from the 20th to the 24th October in the FAO headquarters, in Rome...
Left Behind: the book that champions the development of all territories.
Economist Paul Collier, one of the most influential thinkers on territorial development and social cohesion, has just published LLeft Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places. This book has quickly become a key reference for those working on territorial public policy. In it, Collier analyzes the dynamics behind the economic decline of rural, peri-urban, and post-industrial regions and proposes concrete tools for their regeneration...
Luis Padilla, Director General of Relations with Africa. Gobierno de Canarias. Spain. "The Canary Islands constitute the closest Spanish and European region to the African Atlantic coast. This privileged geographical position has historically determined the orientation of its economic relations and cooperation with the neighboring continent.
This is why the Canary Islands Government is the only Spanish region with a department specifically dedicated to promoting and coordinating government action with African countries through the Directorate General for Relations with Africa, which reports to the Presidency of the Canary Islands Government..."
