Wednesday, June 10, 2009

philly position paper


Committee: United Nations development program
Topic: decentralization and local governance
Country: Brazil
Delegate: Jose Asiatico, George Washington high school


Decentralization is the idea that political power shouldn’t be central but that it should be spread around for the people. Brazil is in support of this idea and we have been trying to make decentralization work since the 1990’s. Despite the attempt of making it work, there is still a lot of work to be done. The United Nations has to come together and make a plan that will work. There are many plans that have been made; they just need to be put in action.

Brazil began making new laws since the 90’s regarding decentralization. We have always tried to make it work but there are still problems that need to be solved. Our neighboring countries have also made some of our policies regarding decentralization. In the past we have made a lot of local government so the government could have more of a direct connection with the people inhabiting our country. But unfortunately we have fallen short of making the stable.

The reason Brazil like many countries of the U.N want to decentralize is because there’s more interaction between government and the people. This is a good plan but there are many things that keep this from happening. Irresponsibility of local government representatives and the lack of participation of the people of Brazil are two of the major problems with making this system work. The effects of decentralization would be better collection of taxes and more jobs and a better economy.

Brazil feels that decentralization is a move that needs to be made and its necessary, a good connection between the people and the government is what we need to make Brazil a better country. We will continue to give jobs to people and make more local government authorities, but this alone won’t make this system successful.

Decentralization is a great idea, people and government come well together like this but we still need to perfect the system. We want the UN to come help us with our ideas of building new schools and make more jobs by raising the minds of all the citizens. We believe knowledge is the most important item we could use to make it work. We are all great countries and great countries create great ideas.

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