Hanns Seidel and Maat Foundation conduct two Training Modules for Youngsters Promoting the Youth Role in the Advancement of the Legal Framework for Local Administration

In the framework of "Responsive Decentralization for Citizen's Rights" Program, Hanns Seidel Foundation - Egypt Office – and Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights organized two Training Modules for youth between 21 and 35 years old entitled "Promoting the youth role in the advancement of the legal framework for local administration".
The first Training Module was organized in Cairo governorate on November 30th and December 1st 2013, the second Training Module was organized in Alexandria governorate on December 6th and 7th 2013. 50 youth activists in interested initiatives, organizations and groups in local administration participated in the two modules.
The modules aimed at increasing the youth awareness on the governing framework for local administration, as well as raising their awareness on decentralization and good local governance, and enabling them to develop and propose general principles for local administration law to be consistent with the proposed constitutional framework for local administration according to the conclusions of the 50-member committee.
The two modules discussed the legislative framework for local governance (local administration section in the constitution draft), the legal reality and obstacles and components for decentralization's application according to the current legal framework, as well as a training on decentralization and good local governance and the general framework for local system in Egypt.
The modules also included a role-play for the competent committee on amending the Local Administration Law No. 43 of 1979, the participants were divided into three Specific Committees as follows: Executive Authority Committee; Elected Councils Committee; and Financial Resources Committee.
The two modules reached important recommendations to be taken into consideration at the amendment of the present Local Administration Law to be consistent with the local administration section in the new constitution draft, and to be more consistent with the criteria for good local governance and decentralization. The most important recommendations are as follows:
• Considering the governors and heads of local units as the final heads for the civil workers in the local unit, as well as creating a position for the Governorate Executive Manager to handle the administrative responsibilities for the governor, when the latter should represent the political authority in the governorate;
• Transferring the establishment and management of local nature services task to the local unit, when the ministries' role should be limited to putting the public policies and defining the performance criteria;
• Entitlement of the popular local council to give confidence to the candidates for the governorate's executive manager and local units head;
• The obligation of the local popular councils approval on the yearly budget for the local unit along with approving their final account;
• The necessity for the local popular council member to obtain at least the certificate of completion of basic education;
• The eligibility of local units to collect and spend Property Taxes and Agricultural Land Taxes, as well as local taxes and part of the Sales Tax on the traded products within the local unit;
• Adding an article to the Local Administration Law provides for the elimination of any contradicting article to this law provisions in any other law to solve the contradiction problem between the Local Administration Law provisions and the stated articles in other laws.

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