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	MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUNICIPAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC UTILITIES IN ARAB CITIES ” IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 13TH GENERAL CONFERENCE OF ARAB TOWNS ORGANIZATION 14-17 Feb 2004, KHARTOUM, SUDAN				عـربــي
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The Arab region is witnessing  rapid population growth and physical expansion of building and other infrastructures.  This increase is accompanied by more demands for municipal services and public facilities, a matter that burdens the municipalities with new responsibilities.

 

The concerned departments always improve their quality services through developing their managerial skills and reorganization of their procedures to  provide better services and facilities to the community corresponding to the growing needs and demands.

 

They pursue several ways for identifying the most important factors that affect performance and for resolving the obstacles that hinder the improvement of the departments’ performance whether legislative, organizational, technological, or information.

 

Thus, this symposium will highlight  and make diagnosis for the  current status of those departments, specify and discuss various factors related to it, to reach out for suitable solutions for the problems and impediments, and to work hard on achieving the major objective of their existence for providing services and public utilities for the citizens in quality performance.

 

 

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OBJECTIVES

   

• Highlight problems confronting the  cities, municipalities and departments concerned with the development of municipal services and public facilities in Arab cities.

 

• Discuss the challenges confronting the cities and municipalities in the fields of local development, planning and organization of services and public utilities, as well as methods of their management.

 

• Review local, regional and international experiences in the field of provision of municipal services and public utilities, improvement and ways of solving problems and challenges.

 

 

 

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• Officials from cities, municipalities, government departments and the private sector.

 

• International and regional organization concerned with urban development issues.

 

• Researchers and specialized authorities related  to the field of management and development of municipal services and public utilities.

 

 

 

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THEMES AND TOPICS:

 

THEME  I:

 

Municipal services and public utilities: 

• Types of municipal services and public utilities and their management methods.

• Impediments confronting during the process of providing services and public facilities in Arab cities.

• Services and public facilities in Arab Cities: provision and sufficiency

 

THEME  II:

 

Improvement of municipal services and public facilities:

 

•          The  role of regulations and legislations in the improvement of services and public facilities.

•          The importance of data base and information in the development of services and public facilities.

•          Development of municipal contracts and tenders and their effect on cost reduction.

•          The role of new technologies in the improvement of standards of  services  and public utilities performance.

•          The role of the private sector in the management and development of municipal services  and public utilities

•          The  role of non-governmental organizations and agencies in the improvement of public facilities provision.

 

THEME  III:

 

Experiences  from cities and relevant agencies.

 

 

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APPROACH:

 

• Researches, Studies and Working papers

 

• Experiences from cities and relevant agencies from both public and private sectors as well as regional and international agencies.

 

• Workshops

 

 

 

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ORGANIZERS:

 

• The Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI)  (Scientific and technical arm of the Arab Towns Organization (ATO).

 

• The State of Khartoum.

 

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PLACE & DATE:

 

Khartoum, Sudan.

14-17 Feb. 2004

 

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SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPATION:

 

Researchers are requested to provide abstracts of one page (not more than 300 words) including elements of his/her suggested paper, method of research, significant results and relevance  of the topic to the theme and topics of the symposium.  The abstracts should reach the Arab Urban Development Institute (AUDI)  on or before the date mentioned below.  The authors will be noted of acceptance of their abstracts by the Technical Committee to prepare the full paper and dispatch to AUDI on the dates required for review.

 

 

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CORRESPONDENCE:

 

All correspondence to be directed to the Conference Secretariat at:

Arab Urban Development Institute

P.O. Box 6892

Riyadh 11452

Tel: (+966 1) 4816 585 or  4821867

Fax: (+9661) 480 2666

Email: info@araburban.org

URL: www.araburban.org

 

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