Decentralized international cooperation: Myth or reality twinning and partnerships? An analysis of achievements in the city-province of Kinshasa and its townships (2010-2020)
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The context is that of the development of decentralized territorial entities city-Province of Kinshasa and its municipalities, approached from the dynamic angle of international cooperation. This study, carried out mainly on the ground, in the said city and municipalities, attempts to assess the degree of impact of twinning and partnerships.Indeed, this city and its municipalities are faced with many development questions. Although, these are not fully-fledged subjects of international law; they interact on an international level through twinning and partnerships. Also, based on interviews and inventory of infrastructures linked to twinning and partnership; the analysis – synthesis will be useful to us in this regard. The expected results are to evaluate the contributions, resulting from decentralized international cooperation from 2010 to 2020, in the city-province of Kinshasa and its municipalities.
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