A partnership between KAS PDWA - Social Watch Benin - CeFAL (Training Centre for Local Administration) brought together some twenty representatives of mayors, executive secretaries and prefecture officials in a hotel in Calavi to receive training on their specific attributes and how to exercise them.
This training is very important for the conduct of public affairs, which was held from 23 to 25 April, with elected officials from various municipalities of the country, helped to strengthen their capacities and enable them to differentiate between their roles and those of other political and administrative actors, in order to avoid formal defects in the exercise of their function.
Subsequently, on 27 April, more than 200 people gathered during a popular forum in the same city were given the floor to ask their elected representative about his responsibilities, and to better understand the separation of specifications between the mayor and other elected officials. Agents from the public sector, the private sector, religious leaders, civil society and local residents were present for the discussions in front of Sébastien Dohou, representative of the Mayor of Calavi, who opened the session with Dr. Stefanie Brinkel, resident representative of KAS PDWA and Ralmeg Gandaho of Social Change Benin (CSB).
A few days earlier, Théodore Golli from KAS PDWA, Rigobert Orou Gani from Social Watch Benin (SWB) and Christian Kouthon from CeFAL opened the first part of the activity, at the end of which the trained participants received certificates.