International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance

Arusha Meeting

Tanzania, November 2009

Partners : Ministère français des Affaires étrangères, Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer, Columbia University - School of International and Public Affairs, Alliance pour refonder la gouvernance en Afrique, Ambassade de France en Tanzanie, Alliance Franco-Tanzanienne, Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique - Nairobi, MS Training Center for Development Cooperation, Eastern and Southern African Small Scale Farmer’s Forum, Pastoralists Indigenous Non-Govermental Organisations Forum, Community Research and Development Services, Mtandao wa vikundi vya wakulima Tanzania

This colloquium is the third conference in the “International Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance in Africa”, a cycle of conferences that started in 2007 in Bamako, Mali. After the June 2008 meeting in Polokwane-Pretoria, South Africa, the Arusha colloquium gathered during three days (Nov.30th to Dec.2nd 2009) approximately sixty participants coming from five countries of the Eastern African sub-region (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania), from Southern Africa, West Africa, as well as representatives from Latin America, the United-States, and France.

The themes of the debate were: sources of power legitimacy, constitutional processes, and the management of collective public goods. The participants are researchers, representatives of national and international public institutions, traditional and religious authorities, civil society leaders, trade unionists, media professionals, and representatives of the private sector. For the IRG and its partners, the challenge of this type of meeting is to highlight the benefits of a reflection on legitimacy in the evolution and reform of national and international public policies.