Benin/Raphaël Akotègnon opens the review of decentralization and local governance
The Minister in charge of Decentralization and Local Governance (MDGL), Raphaël Akotègnon, opened on Tuesday in Cotonou, the review of the decentralization and local governance sector under the 2020 management in the presence of various stakeholders in the sector.
"This review is being held one year after the normally required deadline. This delay is due to a certain number of imperatives that are independent of our respective wills because we had to agree on our agenda and it is also due to certain difficulties related to the collection of information for its preparation," said the Director of Planning, Administration and Finance (DAPF) of the MDGL, Chargé de la Santé et des Services sociaux (ASSS).It is also due to certain difficulties relating to the collection of information for its preparation," said the Director of Planning, Administration and Finance (DAPF) of the MDGL, Charaf Dine Gado at the opening of the meeting. Explaining the no less important context of the organization of this sector review, he said that "the review of the decentralization and deconcentration sector remains the privileged space for exchange between the TFPs and the government.The review of the decentralization and deconcentration sector remains the ideal space for exchanges between the TFPs and all the stakeholders involved in the sector, in order to reflect and find solutions to certain challenges facing us.
As for the leader of the technical and financial partners of the decentralization and deconcentration sector, Elisabeth Pitteloud Alansar, she said she was pleased that despite the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the admissibility mechanism the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, she said she was pleased that the admissibility mechanism could be held face-to-face in order to allow decentralization and deconcentration actors to appreciate the progress made since last year in the area ofThe work carried out collectively has been very useful for the development of the country's economy and for the improvement of the living conditions of the people of Benin. "The work carried out collectively has thus made it possible to achieve important results. We welcome in particular the increase of more than 15.8% of the resources allocated in 2020 to the deconcentrated structures. This funding has made it possible to strengthen advisory assistance activities to support local authorities in improving the quality of services offered to the population," she said.
The Covid-19 pandemic and its corollaries have certainly negatively impacted the capacity of municipalities to mobilize their own resources, but they had to sustain an average decline of 9.3% in 2020 compared to 2019. This downward trend could continue and even increase in fiscal year 2021, continued Elisabeth Pitteloud Alansar. "In this context, we encourage the deconcentrated structures to strengthen, their support to the communes to enable the trend to be reversed and to resume the upward trends recorded in recent years." On behalf of the partners, she recalled, among other things, the central importance of PANADEC while hoping that the strategic orientations underway would be fully in line with PANADEC 21-30 in order to ensure the adoption and implementation of a coherent policy framework for the decentralization sector.
"Mr. Minister, the partners reassure you of their commitment to continue supporting the government in the development actions undertaken and for decentralization," she concluded by reassuring.
The Minister in charge of decentralization and local governance (MDGL), Raphaël Akotègnon, told participants that the present meeting will be, like the one in 2020, essentially devoted to the implementation of the new law on decentralization.He told participants that the present meeting, like the one in 2020, will be essentially devoted to the implementation of PONADEC and the operationalization tools, notably the decentralization and deconcentration plans (PDD), the departmental plans for the coordination of development actions, the annual plan of advisory assistance and the FADeC. "We will therefore also have to take stock of the implementation of the recommendations of the last sector review of 2019, discuss the performance achieved during the 2020 fiscal year and the challenges to be met, propose measures to be taken in order to improve the quality of the services provided to the population.challenges to be met, to propose improvement measures in order to consolidate and strengthen the performance and contributions of the sector in the implementation of the growth agenda for sustainable development PCDD", he said.
Let us note that several communications were animated during this review.
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