Local Administration in Early Recovery
After work on studying the reality of local communities in different regions during entering the recovery phase, to know its features, opportunities and the challenges to transfer to this phase from communities' point of view, and how to activate the work by partnership between the civil community and local administration. In addition to analyze the legislation environment for decentralization and local administration through reviewing the laws that are more related to its work on the local, regional, national levels.
Today morning, in headquarter in Damascus, The Nation Building Movement launched "Local Administration in Recovery Phase" Forum to include stakeholders in dialogue with experts to build recovery policies.
In the first day, the forum events discussed the social role for local councils through three pillars.
In the first pillar discussed the social partnership, its mechanisms and how to encourage councils to initiatives, working with local communities and the specified local council committees in communicating with community, other councils and the public and private sectors, in addition to regulatory legislation to this relationship, the role of the existing structures in the same local council structure.
The second pillar was about the social justice and local's role in building peace and fulfilling the needs of hosts communities to displaced people and damaged communities, in addition to process displacement and refuge issues, and the war implications on marginalized groups such as women, youth and children.
While the third pillar discussed the enabling and censorship, including the programs that should be applied so the local communities -and the councils- become conscious and able to enabling and censorship, and the required censorship on local councils' work, including to local media role in enabling the local community to monitor on local councils' work.
More details about the session can be found in the photo reports below.