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UNCRD-INTA in Colombia

INTA has been asked for a series of advisory panels and professional training programmes for public officials from Colombia and Chile, in collaboration with the UNCRD.

In the context of the South-South Cooperation Programme on Capacity Building for Integrated Regional Development Management, initiated in 2004, INTA has been approached by the Latin American and Caribbean Office of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Bogotá to carry out a series of professional training programmes for public officials in the Capital Region Bogotá-Cundinamarca and the Caribbean Region in Colombia.

INTA will compose a team of 5 international experts to carry out two Advisory Panels of each 4 days in the two regions, on processes of regional integration and to participate as experts in the training courses organised in collaboration with ECLAC. The programme will take place from 1 June to 11 June 2010 in Bogotá and Barranquilla.

The programme aims to strengthen capacities to advance the territorial planning processes and to facilitate agreements between stakeholders of the regions on key issues, based on a preliminary assessment of the characteristics and dynamics and needs of the processes in each of the regions. The programme will provide the professionals of the territories with performing tools (physical-spatial, social, institutional, fiscal and financial) that can be applied in specific aspects of integration processes.

Read more on the UNCRD-LAC

Panelists

The following INTA members will contribute to the programme in Colombia:

Joe Montgomery
Former INTA President
Director General, Communities and Local Government, UK

Pedro Ortiz
INTA Vice President
Member of the Board, COAM Council of Architects Madrid, Spain

Jean Michel Evin
Director of Services, City of Echirolles, France

Pierre Jamet
Director General of Departmental Services, Director of the Cabinet of the President, General Council of the Rhone, France

INTA Staff: Michel Sudarskis, Line Algoed