{"id":2452,"date":"2022-09-15T17:56:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daejeon2022.uclg.org\/governance-renewal-for-emergency-mode\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:56:44","slug":"governance-renewal-for-emergency-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daejeon2022.uclg.org\/fr\/governance-renewal-for-emergency-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Governance Renewal for Emergency Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philipp Rode on behalf of the <\/span><\/i>Emergency Governance Initiative for Cities and Regions<\/span><\/i><\/a>*<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n As local and regional leaders from around the world convene at the UCLG 7<\/span>th<\/span> World Congress in Daejeon, the strong, collective sense of global crisis will be impossible to ignore. Delegates will re-assess the role of the municipal and regional movement, re-establish their commitment to the Paris Agreement and New Urban Agenda, and contribute to the post-SDG process, while proactively considering options and scenarios for a breakthrough facilitated by a \u2018Pact for the Future\u2019. They will do so with an acute awareness that their fellow citizens at home are worrying about concrete multiple and often overlapping crisis points. While the pandemic may have been the dominant concern until recently, it is now surpassed by a combination of crises linked to the war in Eastern Europe and a fragile international political order, global energy and food supply, and the early effects of the climate emergency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Equally, the governance implications of permanent crisis must not be brushed aside. While convenient at present, hoping for a return to normal mode governance anytime soon will not only be seen increasingly as naive but ultimately as dangerous. Governance renewal for the 2020s will require adjusting our institutional structures to emergency mode while dealing with live crises. Crucially, the complex emergencies we are facing today demand governance well beyond established disaster response, relieve, and recovery. <\/span>Complex global emergencies<\/span><\/a> such as global heating, pandemics and contemporary inequalities are long emergencies beyond social memory, they are political, lack trigger moments and are difficult to define. The type of emergency governance required to tackle these will have to be built around a capacity for deep prioritisation, managing trade-offs, political competence, and public leadership.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The role of city and regional governments as part of governing complex emergencies must not be underestimated either. This role will have to build on local governments\u2019 strengths such as their agility, flexibility, proximity to people, and in-depth understanding of interrelated systems. <\/span>Financing and budgeting<\/span><\/a> will have to adapt and acknowledge the role of fiscal autonomy and new capacities to generate own-source revenues. <\/span>Local public services<\/span><\/a> will have to adjust to exceptional times, acknowledge structural changes in demand, adopt flexible staff re-deployment mechanisms and encourage strong cooperation across service operators. Ultimately, municipal and local government will have to lead more effective territorial responses to complex global emergencies and re-embrace two fundamental logics of urban governance.<\/span><\/p>\n First, the recognition that urban governance is fundamentally multilevel. Even under normal mode policy making and service delivery, most tiers of government are involved in urban affairs. Under emergency mode, multilevel co-operation, co-production and co-delivery moves beyond a value driven distribution of state power and becomes a precondition for effective emergency response. To Enhance <\/span>multilevel emergency governance<\/span><\/a> cities and regions must take on a strategic decision-making role and not just bear operational responsibilities. Success relies on close feedback loops between executive decisions and their impacts on the ground, it needs to employ mechanisms that can quickly aggregate inputs from different local governments, and should be built around a platform for continuous information and experience sharing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n