URBACT TALK: BLACK HOLES - IMPROVING EFFICIENCY BETWEEN LOCAL ACTORS

Jean Loup DRUBIGNY, Former Head of the URBACT Secretariat

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BLACK HOLES

In the governance of local authorities

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STORY TELLING

• A French mayor in the Berlin URBACT conference

• City hall: the two towers• The young Eurocrat and the old mayor

• The mayor and the technocrat

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VERSUS

•ELECTION versus STABILITY•GROUND versus BUREAUCRACY•LEGITIMACY versus EXPERTISE•COURAGE versus PRAGMATISM•LONG TERM versus SHORT TERM•STRATEGY versus ROUTINE•IMPARTIALITY versus CLIENTELISM

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An organized collaboration

• Elected representatives• Administrative and technical staff

• The grey zone• The test of political changes

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Improving the effectiveness of the tandem

• organizing complementarity• avoiding overlapping

• regulating relationship more than ruling it • organizing relationship and working with external actors • answering to the incentives of larger scale public authorities

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URBACT dealing with questions of local governance

• European mainstream analysis and vision• Take variety into account • Propose rather than impose • Open opportunities • Provide networking ideas and practices

TOWARDS A NEW FRONTIER ! We all agree on the direction…

URBACT provides a set of tools…

Ode to diversity and complexity !

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