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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Inside the emergency: lessons in delivering national responses to a crisis

The crisis has highlighted an important role for central governments to steward a unified response, one taking into account local and regional specificities, needs and contexts. How has central government taken up this challenge, balancing their core national responsibilities (e.g. ensuring safety and security of all citizens) and recognising the role and necessity of local governments in managing local level implications of the crisis.

Speakers: 

• Nikolai Astrup, Minister of Local Government and Modernisation, Norway
• Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation, Ukraine
• Carolina Darias, Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service (MPTFP), Spain

Moderator: Janos Bertok, Deputy Director, Public Governance Directorate, OECD

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