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- Photos: Government of Mexico (SEGOB); David Parks; Diana Chebenova
The Government of Mexico became a partner country with the Forum of Federations in a signing ceremony on January 30, 2006 in Mexico City. Mexico joins Australia, Austria, Canada, India, Nigeria and Switzerland as partner countries.
Participants shown in the photos include Arnold Koller, Chair of the Forum of Federations and former President of Switzerland; Carlos Abascal, Minister of the Interior of Mexico; Gian Federico Pedotti, Swiss Ambassador to Mexico; César Camacho Quiroz, President of the Mexican Senate Commission on Federalism and Municipal Development; Gloria del Carmen Muñoz León, Co-ordinator of Mexico’s National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (INAFED); Gaëtan Lavertu, Canadian Ambassador to Mexico; Arturo Chávez Chávez, Deputy Minister, Ministry of the Interior; and Diana Chebenova, Program Manager, Forum of Federations.… more
Strong support for Forum's new Strategic Council
Seven countries now partners with Forum
The governments of seven countries – Austria, Australia, Canada, India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Switzerland – have signed Framework Arrangements with the Forum of Federations. The Framework Arrangements create a partnership between each federal government and the Forum. By signing, each government will sit on the Forum's Strategic Council to provide broad policy advice to the Board.
The number of governments will soon increase to eight. The government of Ethiopia recently signed a letter of intent to become a partner country of the Forum of Federations.
Strategic Council encourages Forum to strengthen its role
The first meeting of the Strategic Council, which provides advice to the Forum's Board, took place in Ottawa on June 14. The council made a series of
recommendations to the Forum. The Council also took note of the
recommendations for candidates for the Forum Board made by countries represented on the Strategic Council and recommended their
approval to the Board.
What's New?
An Ethiopian delegation of ministers from the central government and two states visited the Forum office in Ottawa to exchange experiences in federal governance from February 6 to 7.
Read the speeches of Carlos Abascal, Mexican Minister of the Interior (in Spanish) and Arnold Koller, Chair of the Forum, at the signing ceremony in Mexico City on January 30, 2006, in which Mexico became a partner government with the Forum.
The Forum of Federations and the Fiscal Forum of the Brazilian States are co-organizing a workshop in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, from March 29 to 31, 2006 to explore two important issues in Brazilian fiscal federalism:
- fiscal harmonization and subnational taxation: the Value Added Tax (VAT); and
- public budgeting and intergovernmental cooperation.
The workshop will be hosted by the Secretariat of Finance of the State of Parana.
New book on comparative federalism published: Thomas Hueglin and Alan Fenna are the authors of a new book, Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry, Broadview Press, Peterborough, ON Canada. Hueglin was a co-ordinator of a country roundtable on legislative and executive governance in Canada for the Global Dialogue project, a joint effort of the Forum and the International Association of Centers for Federal Studies. Hueglin is a professor of political science at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Alan Fenna teaches politics and government at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
Forum President George Anderson has written an analysis of what is at stake in the December 15 elections in Iraq. Read Shaping a new Iraq here.
Rod Macdonell has been chosen as Senior Director of Public Information and Education at the Forum and Shawn Houlihan has been named the Forum's Africa Program Director.
Dialogues on Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries, the third booklet in the Global Dialogue on Federalism series, edited by Raoul Blindenbacher and Abigail Ostien, will be released at events in Costa do Suípe, Brazil in December, 2005, and is available from the publisher beginning in January 2006.
Edited by:
Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens and Fabien Gélinas
Leading authors write in English and French on how federalism handles issues from constitutionalism to ethnic diversity, from the international relations of Canada’s provinces to devolution in the UK.
Forum of Federations, Tel: +1 (613) 244-3360 / Fax: +1 (613) 244-3372, Email: forum@forumfed.org
