Controlling Corruption in Local Governments in Latin America

Date: Friday, Nov 14, 2008

Location:
B1 Conference Center
CSIS
Washington DC

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On November 14, 2008, the Americas Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted a conference on the topic:

"Controlling Corruption in Local Government in Latin America"

This half-day event examined efforts in place in the region to fight corruption in local government and to identify resources from multilateral and bilateral cooperation that can be focused on improving the quality of local government.

8:30 - 9:00am - Registration

Audio (01:12:28) : English | Spanish
9:00 -10:15am - Panel 1: "Efforts to improve municipal control of corruption: Three case studies"
          Alejandro Char, Mayor of Barranquilla, Department of Atlántico, Colombia
          (Presentation Spanish | English)
          José Pérez Hernández, Mayor of Torreón, State of Coahuila, Mexico

Audio (01:27:38) : English | Spanish
10:30 -12:00pm - Panel 2: "Developing Synergy between Civil Society and Local Governments"
          Beatriz Boza, Executive Director of Ciudadanos al Dí¬a, Peru (Presentation)
          Mercedes de Freitas, Executive Director of Transparency International
          Venezuela (Presentation)
          Felipe González, Director of the Center for the Study of International
          Governance, IPADE Business School, Mexico (Presentation)

Audio (01:19:57) : English | Spanish
12:15-2:00pm - Luncheon and Panel 3: "Multilateral Institutions and Bilateral Cooperation"
          Paloma Baena, Public Governance Specialist, Institutional Capacity of State
          Division, Inter-American Development Bank (Presentation)
          Viviana Barberena Nisimblat, Advisor for Participatory and Transparent
          Democracy, German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) (Presentation)
          Camilla Helgø Fossberg, First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy in
          Managua, Nicaragua (Presentation)

This event was made possible by the generous support of the Open Society Institute

Programs
Americas Program, Hills Program on Governance

Topics
Governance

Regions
Americas