PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES OF THE FORUM OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY(FAL)

• Sunday, 21st January 2007
• Monday, 22nd January 2007
• Tuesday, 23rd January 2007
• Wednesday, 24th January 2007

PROGRAMME FOR THE ACTIVITIES OF THE FORUM OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION (FAL) WITH THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM - AFRICA 2007 (timetable to be confirmed)

Nairobi (Kenia) – 20th to 25th January 2007

The main venue for the World Social Forum 2007 will be the Moi International Sports Centre in Kasarani- about 10 km. north east of the Central Business District of Nairobi.

(Opening and closing ceremonies will be held at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi.)

The wsf2007 in Nairobi will held during the following dates:

• 20th, Jan. 2007 - Opening Ceremony
• 21st, Jan. 2007 - First Day (self organised and co-organised activities)
• 22nd, Jan. 2007 - Second Day (self organised and co-organised activities)
• 23rd, Jan. 2007 - Third Day (self organised and co-organised activities)
• 24th, Jan. 2007 - Forth Day (planning for actions during 2007)
• 25th, Jan. 2007 - Closing Ceremony

Thematic Terrains of the World Social Forum Territory:

1. Building a world of peace, justice, ethics and respect for diverse spiritualities
2. Liberating the world from the domination of multinational and financial capital
3. Ensuring universal and sustainable access to the common goods of humanity
4. Democratizing knowledge and information
5. Ensuring dignity, defending diversity, guaranteeing gender equality and eliminating all forms of discrimination
6. Guaranteeing economic, social and cultural rights, especially the rights to food, healthcare, education, housing, employment and decent work
7. Building a world order based on sovereignty, self-determination and rights of the peoples
8. Constructing a people-centered and sustainable economy
9. Building real democratic political structures and institutions with people’s participation on decisions and control of public affairs and resources

SUNDAY 21st JANUARY 2007

• Which decentralisation for a public and civic management of local development?

Conseil Général de Saint Denis (France) / Initiatives pour un Autre Monde (IPAM) - AITEC
Terrain: 6
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 200 people
Time period: 2

• Right to the city

Diputació de Barcelona (Spain) / Urban Spot - Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
Terrain: 6
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 300 people
Time period: 4

• Decentralised cooperation and the Millenium goals

FAMSI, Fons Català de Cooperació al Desenvolupament (Spain) and Provincia di Milano (Italy) / Tavola della Pace
Terrain: 9
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 200 people
Time period: 3

MONDAY 22nd JANUARY 2007

• Local authorities and social movements: forms of conquering rights by metropolis committed to solidarity

Nanterre (France), FALP / Initiatives pour un Autre Monde (IPAM) - AITEC
Terrain: 6
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 200 people
Time period: 4

• People's Fund for the Right to Land and Housing for the development of the Public Housing Service for the promotion of the security in housing through cooperation

FAMSI (Spain), FALP / International Alliance of Inhabitants (AIH)
Terrain: 9
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 300 people
Time period: 2

• Agriculture: new links between producers and consumers

Aubagne (France) / Urgenci and Via Campesina
Terrain: 6
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 50 people
Time period: 4

• Social movements and local authorities facing land speculation and corruption

Diputación de Málaga and Mancomunidad de la Costa del Sol (Spain) / UCR and Transform España
Terrain: 2
Translation: No
Room capacity: 50 people
Time period: 1

• Diversity, democracy and public space. Relations and challenges between societies and states. Towards a new geopolitics of solidarity

Frente Nacional de Prefeitos (Brasil) and Presidency of the Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy Commission of UCLG / EURALAT
Terrain: 9
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 50 people
Time period: 4

• Discrimination and racism: the legacy of colonialism. Frantz Fanon, a needed reading to understand urban segregation, especially in peripheries

Communauté d’Agglomération Plaine Commune Saint Denis and City of Saint-Denis (France), FALP / Espace Frantz Fanon (Group of social movements)
Terrain: 5
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 100 people
Time period:

TUESDAY 23rd JANUARY 2007

• Intercultural conflict mediation

Barcelona (Spain) / Fundació Desenvolupament Comunitari
Terrain: 1
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 50 people
Time period: 2

WEDNESDAY 24th JANUARY 2007

• Towards a global movement for the reform of International institutions

Guarulhos (Brasil) and Presidency of the Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy Commission of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) / Forum Ubuntu
Terrain: 9
Translation: Yes
Room capacity: 350 people
Time period: 1

• Urban Spot

AITEC, FAL, FNRU, HIC, AIH, FALP and IAI

All local authorities and participants in the FAL are called to attend this space to announce for 2008:
1) World mobilization Days for the right to housing 2007/08, solidarity without borders that shifts into a global alternative power.
2) Rights to the city and the alternatives to housing privatization.
Terrain: 6
Translation:
Room capacity:
Time period:

Date, time and place to be confirmed:

• Budget and participative democracy as an example of the new local governance

Sevilla, Diputación de Málaga and FAMSI (Spain) / Círculo Bolivariano de OSPAAAL

PROGRAMME FOR THE WORLD ASSEMBLY OF THE 7th FORUM OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY

Tuesday 23rd January 2007

LA MADA HOTEL - NAIROBI (KENYA):
Thika Road
P.O Box 40683, Nairobi Kenya
Tel: 254-20-221439/218321
Fax: 254-20-332170
Email: sales@madahotels.com

La Mada Hotel is 10 kms from Nairobi City Centre on Thika Road, very close to the venue of the WSF, Moi International Sports Centre.

ALL SESSIONS WILL BE IN PLENARY

9:00 – OPENING

• Dick Wathika, Mayor of Nairobi (Kenya)
• Elói Pietá, Mayor of Guarulhos (Brasil) and Vice-president FNP do Brazil, President of the Commission on Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy in UCLG
• Patrick Jarry, Mayor of Nanterre (France), FAL-FALP. President of the Working group on Peripheral Cities in UCLG
• Oded Grajew, Representative of the Internacional Council of the World Social Forum (Brazil)
• Lenin Brea, Director of International Cooperation of the Office of the Mayor of Caracas (venue of the last FAL) (Venezuela)
• Boaventura de Sousa Santos, CES Coimbra (Portugal)

9:30 – DIALOGUE ON THE CHALLENGES OF DECENTRALISED COOPERATION AND AFRICA

Chaired by Teodoro Romero, President of Fons Català de Cooperació and President of Confederación de Fondos de Cooperación y Solidaridad de España (Spain)

• Ana Carolina S. Guilengue, Vice-Mayor of Matola (Mozambique)
• Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, secretary general of CGLUA
• Gilbert Roger, Mayor of Bondy, First Vice-president of Conseil général de Seine-Saint-Denis (France)
• Stefano Fusi, ANGI-Toscana (Italy)
• Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Centro de Estudos Sociais (Portugal)

Round of questions

11:30 - DIALOGUES BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Chaired by Salvatore Amura, National Coordinator of RETE Nuovo Municipio (Italy)

(5-minute report for each seminar / institution)

13:00 – End of the reports

14:30 CONCLUSIONS OF THE DIALOGUES BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Chaired by Elena Cortes, councillor delegate of the Council of Cordoba (Spain)

• Ricard Gomà, councillor of the Council of Barcelona (Spain)
• Siddikki Daff, Cerpac, (Senegal)
• Magali Giovannangelli, Vice-Mayor of Aubagne (France)
• Oded Grajew, Instituto Ethos (Brazil)
• Yves Cabannes, University of London (United Kingdom)
• Gustave Massiah, Vice-president of ATTAC

16:00 – DECLARATION OF NAIROBI. AGENDA OF COMMITMENTS AND PROPOSAL FOR A NEW ORGANISATION OF THE FAL NETWORK

Vanessa Marx (Secretary of the Comission on Social Inclusion of UCLG), Antonio Aniesa (FALP - Metropolises in Solidarity) and Felipe Llamas (FAMSI) present the proposal written by the Organisation Group (Marraquech Group) and the Writing Comission.

Àngel Merino (Diputación de Barcelona) present a resolution of support to the Guinean workers and to the CNTG who were violently repressed by the Guinean Army the previous night.

The proposals were approved unanimously.

Closure of the 7th FAL Assembly:

• Elói Pietá, Mayor of Guarulhos (Brazil)
• Patrick Jarry, Mayor of Nanterre (France), FAL-FALP. President of the Working group on Peripheral Cities in UCLG
• Claudia Zafra, Vice-president of Diputación de Córdoba, FAMSI (Spain)
• Angel Merino, Deputy-president of the Area of Education of Diputació de Barcelona (Spain)
• Guido Milani, Provincia di Milano, Director of Cooperation (Italy)
• Didier Paillard, Mayor of Saint-Denis (France)