SPL – Centre for Local Governance announces a study opportunity, open to both practitioners and academics, to visit Brazil in the period directly after the Winelands Conference (as post-conference workshop) to explore their acknowledged global best practices in participatory budgeting and their responses to inequality, poverty and massive demands for services such as low-income housing (not to mention the experience of setting up a FIFA world cup event amidst all of this realities). The purpose of the Centre for Local Governance (CLG) is to focus exclusively on research, community interaction and training in matters relating to local government. One of the initiatives is also to provide opportunity for academics and practitioners to learn by means of comparative study.
The visit is hosted by the Centre for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC) of the School of Social Sciences at the Getulio Vargas Foundation. Criado em 1973, tem o objetivo de abrigar conjuntos documentais relevantes para a história recente do país, desenvolver pesquisas em sua área de atuação e promover cursos de graduação e pós-graduação.We will also visit The Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) in Porto Alegre.
This is also very timely in the light of the current competency requirements for local government managers and the training and research on local government matters including the Municipal Minimum Competence Programme.
With the above in mind, we wish to invite all interested SPL academics and senior practitioners to participate. We will limit the group to between 20 and 25, so please respond ASAP to book your place.
Further details and provisional itinerary are available on the next page.
Yours sincerely
Prof AP Johan Burger
Director: School of Public Leadership
Date: 5 – 13 April 2013Destination: Brazil / Price: R28000 per person
This price includes international and domestic air travel, accommodation and breakfast, but excludes lunches, dinners and other day-to-day expenses
5 April / Depart Cape Town to São Paulo (3 nights)
6 April / Sightseeing in City
7 April / Official visits
8 April / Depart to Rio de Janeiro (3 nights)
8/9 April / Official visits
10 April: / Sightseeing in City
11 April / Depart to Porto Alegre (2 nights)
11/12April / Official visits
13 April / Depart to São Paulo and then to Cape Town
Please see below, the quote for the group’s flights to South America:
Cape Town – Johannesburg – Sao Paulo return
On SAA –
SA 302 B 05APRCPTJNB HN200600 0800
SA 222 Q 05APR JNBGRU HN201045 1630
SA 225 G 13APRGRUJNB HN200130 1520
SA 365 G 13APRJNBCPT HN201845 2055
Price:
Tariff:R13 020.00
Transaction:R786.00
VAT:R113.00
Total:R13 919.00 per person
Insurance: R 640.00
Sao Paulo – Rio de Janeiro
Rio – Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre – Sao Paulo
On TAM Airlines -
JJ 3684 L08APR GRUGIG HS9 0910 1018
JJ 3431 L11APR GIGPOA HS9 1156 1357
JJ 3296 Q12APRPOAGRU HS9 1955 2135
Price:
Tariff:R3845.00
Transaction:R238.00
VAT:R38.00
Total:R4121.00 per person
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