The Cycle of thematic Conferences CITIES IN DIALOGUE that UN-HABITAT is organizing in collaboration with Standing Conference of Cities and Municipalities of Serbia and together with the Ministry for Infrastructures, the Ministry for Public Administration and Local Self Government and the Ministry of Regional Economic Development and financed by the Government of Italy, is programmed for December 2007 to March 2008. The Cycle will start with the Conference entitled CITIES FACING AND PROMOTING INTEGRATED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT that will be held in Belgrade at Sava Centre on 17 and 18 of December 2007.

The main objective of the Conference is to stimulate a DIALOGUE for the municipalities that have been working with UN-HABITAT and other Serbian municipalities, and offer and facilitate a learning process through sharing of experiences and lessons learnt on the subject of territorial development.

The specific objectives of the conference are two fold: one, to facilitate this learning through exchange of experiences, both from Serbia and elsewhere in the region and beyond; and two, to flag key policy and institutional issues emanating from experience, both national and international, and promoting dialogue for change between key actors at local and national level. The underlying goal is to stimulate debate, and identify actions needed for replication and scaling up of good practices and enhancing impact. The case studies, highlights of the dialogues and their conclusions will be systematically captured in the proceedings of each of the conferences and, synthesized in a summary/snapshot publication, to be made widely available for public dissemination.

The conference combines key note presentations with plenary discussions and highly interactive thematic group deliberations.

Main themes for the two parallel sessions are:

• A. Formulating integrated development strategies: process and dynamics and
• B. Implementing territorial development strategies: instruments, institutions and partnerships.

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