PASSIA Meetings 2004

Program & Participants

PASSIA Workshop

Decentralization and Local Government Reform: Learning from the Lessons of Others

Best Eastern Hotel, Ramallah.
Tuesday, 8^th June 2004

Dr Mahdi Abdul Hadi,
Head of PASSIA, Jerusalem

Jamal Shobaki,
Minister of Local Government, Palestine

Dr Reinhard Bodemeyer,
GTZ, Morocco

Mr. Mohammad Zaidan,
Former Head of the Follow Up Committee, Arab Mayors and Heads of Local Councils Committee.

Dr As'ad Ghanem,
Head of Ibn Khaldun-Arab Association for Research & Development.

Program

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10:00-10:45

Opening Remarks
Dr Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA, Jerusalem

10:45-11:30

Decentralization & Local Government Reform in Palestine
Jamal Shobaki, Minister of Local Government, Palestine

11:30-13:00

Devolving Political Power and Introducing Administrative Change in an Arab-Islamic Context
Dr Reinhard Bodemeyer, GTZ, Morocco

13:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-14:45

Elections and Prospects for Local Government Reform in Palestine
Jamal Shobaki, Minister of Local Government, Palestine

14:45-16:00

Central-Local Authority Relations in an Ethnically Divided State
Mr. Mohammad Zaidan, Former Head of the Follow Up Committee, Arab Mayors and Heads of Local Councils Committee, and Dr As’ad Ghanem, Head of Ibn Khaldun - Arab Association for Research and Development.

Participant(s): Imad Saed, General Director, Ministry of Local Government; Fouz Khalifah, Ministry of Local Government; Isam Aqel, Executive Director, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA); Lawahez Abdul Hadi, President, General Union of Palestinian Women, Nablus; Da’ad Alami, Palestinian Women Club, Nablus; Fathi Bozeiah, Mayor, Kefel Haris Municipality; Atef Alawneh, Ministry of Finance, Ramallah; Khaled Abu Alia, Director, Civic Forum; Yaser ‘Aleis, Investor; Ahmad Al-Qasem, Writer & Researcher; Jamil Hamami, Al-Quds University; Angele Khasho, Program Assistant, Danish Representative Office; Nazmi Harb, General Director, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics; Rasem Kamal, Lawyer; Jihad Abdul Hadi, Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Raed Abu Ghazaleh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; As’ad Sunokrot, Sunokrot Company, Jerusalem; Ibrahim Julani, Businessman, Jerusalem; Hassan Fayyad, Negotiation Affairs Department, Ramallah; Ismail Talahmeh, Engineer; Khalid Naseef, Civic Forum; Ma’rouf Zahran, Mayor of Qalqilia; Saber Arif, Qalqilia Municipality; Walid Badawi, PLO Refugees Department; Nahed Awwad, Goethe Institute, Ramallah; Abdullah Abu Shaweesh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Khalil Nakhleh, Ministry of Education and Higher Education; Peter Schäfer, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES); Adnan Ghosheh, Advisor, Municipal Development, GTZ; Hazem Qawasmi, GTZ; David Bother, GTZ; Abdul Jawad Saleh, PLC Member, Ramallah; Mustafa Habash, Dar Al-Fatwa and Islamic Research Studies, Ramallah ; Ahmad Amer, Birzeit University; Sameer Shihadeh, General Director, National Institution Office, Ramallah; ‘Ouhoud Qanadeel, Arab Women’s Union Society, Nablus; Ghada Abdul Hadi, Hawwa Center, Nablus; Iyad Masrouji, General Manager, Masrouji Company; Shifa’ Jayousi, Institutional Strengthening Specialist, Ramallah; Mohammed Kamal Jaber, Palestinian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, Ramallah; Nawal Shaheen, Arab Women’s Union Society, Ramallah; Hamdallah Hawamdeh, Ministry of Culture, Nablus; Faisal Awartani, General Manager of Alpha International for Polling, Research & Informatics, Ramallah; Sa’ed Abdul Hadi, An-Nasher, Ramallah; Taleb Awad, Muwatin, Ramallah; Azzam Abu So’ud, Chamber of Commerce, Jerusalem; Muna Matta, Belgian Technology Cooperation; Majed Souman, The Commission of NGO’s Affairs, PA Commission; Sandy Jasser, The Commission of NGO’s Affairs, PA Commission; Volker Buenning, Advisor, GTZ; Rima Ghandour, USAID, Tel Aviv; Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Sana’ Shannak, Nick Kardahji, Fadi Kiblawi, PASSIA.