This half-day event will examine 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. 

Friday, November 14, 2008, 9:00am - 2:00pm
B1 Conference Center
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC, 20006

8:30 - 9:00am - Registration

9:00 -10:15am - Panel 1: "Efforts to improve municipal control of corruption: Three case studies"

          Martín Sabbatella, Intendente of Morón, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
          Eduardo Alvarado, Mayor of Pasto, Department of Nariño, Colombia
          José Pérez Hernández, Mayor of Torreón, State of Coahuila, Mexico

10:30 -12:00pm - Panel 2: "Developing Synergy between Civil Society and Local Governments"

          Beatriz Boza, Executive Director of Ciudadanos al Dí­a, Peru
          Mercedes de Freitas, Executive Director of Transparency International
          Venezuela
          Felipe González, Director of the Center for the Study of International
          Governance, IPADE Business School, Mexico

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
          Viviana Barberena Nisimblatt, Advisor for Participatory and Transparent
          Democracy, German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
          Camilla Helgø Fossberg, First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy in
          Managua, Nicaragua

Please RSVP for Gareth Smail by clicking HERE, or by calling (202) 775-3180.

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