UDITE CONGRESS : CHALLENGES IN TIMES OF COVID-19
In a first pre-conference presentation by Dorothé
Allain-Dupré, Head of Department of the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), spoke about
the impact of COVID-19 on local and regional
authoritiesand in particular the different strategies
that had been developed to cope with it. During her presentation Ms
Allain- Dupree made reference to their new website - OECD Regional Recovery Platform - that gathers
examples of how local and regional authorities in the OECD countries
are working to get through the crisis. The issue was revisited in the
Saturday morning workshop where a round table hosted by Founding UDiTE
President, Gérard Combe, discussed the World
Economic Forum's Global Risk Report 2021 and recent surveys conducted
by Primo Europe and UDiTE to identify the needs and perceived
challenges from the perspective of the local government chief
executive. UA panel of UDiTE members then participated in a panel
debate, including Philippe Rossignol
(Berchem-St.Agathe, Belgium), Karen Camilleri (Qormi,
Malta) and Xavier Boivert (Mordelles, France) where
the moderator invited them to react on the basis of their experience
in recent months.
In a final session, Céline Du
Boys, from the Institute of Public Management and Territorial
Governance from the University of Aix Marseille spoke about her
European project that has been looking at
resilience and the financial impacts on local authorities across
Europe as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. You can
watch this workshop again and download the presentations on our
Congress
2021 webpage