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Projects proposed by local authorities 2009
On the initiative of the Presidency of the Union for the Mediterranean, the City of Lyon (France) hosted on 23-24 November 2009 an international conference on the « Contribution of local and regional authorities to the water strategy of the Union for the Mediterranean ». This conference is co-organized by the UCLG Mediterranean Interregional Committee.
As part of the preparations for this conference, five projects of city to city cooperation have been selected to be presented to the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean in order to obtain support from the States.
The aims of the conference are the following:
• presenting recommendations from local authorities on the Mediterranean water strategy of the Union for the Mediterranean. The strategy should be adopted by the first semester of 2010;
• mobilizing new sources of financing for the projects of decentralized cooperation developed by Mediterranean local authorities.
• identifying projects of decentralized cooperation likely to be presented for the approval of the Union for the Mediterranean;
18 projects where received and 7 selected by the conference. They are all presented below.
