“Promoting democracy through local authorities”: fostering community engagement in Libya

From 5 to 11 September 2022, ALDA Secretary General Antonella Valmorbida together with ALDA Trainer Anna Ditta delivered a course on “Promoting democracy through local authorities” with special focus on Libyan realities.

Taking place in the framework of the REBUILD project, funded by the European Commission and led by the Autonomous Province of Trento, this course, specifically called “training of trainers” (ToT), was addressed to 20 professors of 10 Universities dislocated in 10 different Libyan municipalities. 

More in details, ToT tackled 3  different modules: 

1. Transparency, accountability, ethics and good governance; 
2. Crisis management;
3. Strategies and tools for inclusive civil participation in decision-making process. 

Hence, participants have been guided in learning and debating about the features and principles of good local governance, according to the “European Charter for Local Self-government”; while working on crisis management and assessment of the risks.

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«Training of trainers” was addressed to 20 professors of 10 Universities dislocated in 10 different Libyan municipalities

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Moreover, the training marked the occasion also to go through the different steps of civil participation and learnt about the principles and tools useful to make it effective.

Overall, theory was combined with individual and working groups, role plays, presentation of both case-studies and field-visits. The 20 professors joining the ToT are now expected to deliver the training to their municipalities. 

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The training was delivered by ALDA, in cooperation with the International Cooperation Centre (Trento — Italy), and it took place in Kairouan (Tunisia)

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