Clemens Schweizer

Lecturer/Researcher, Center of Excellence for Local Governance in Africa (CEGLA) & DIGI-FACE University of Applied Sciences Kehl, Germany Dr. Clemens Schweizer is an independent scientific consultant and lecturer. His key fields of expertise are capacity development (especially education and training) in the public sector, governance and decentralization, sustainable international (development) cooperation and academic cooperation, social science research, international project management, HR development and coaching. He regularly serves as an expert in EU, GIZ, KfW, DAAD, CoE and Engagement Global funded projects. His clients include GIZ, GFA, GOPA, Ambero, Council of Europe, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK), Kehl University of Applied Sciences, NIRAS and Euro-Insitute. He carries out various research & development projects and is regularly advising African and European Bachelor, Master and PhD students in their research projects. Mr. Schweizer is Assistant Lecturer at Kehl University (since 2013) and at the Business School Ecole 3A in Paris, Lyon and Toulouse (since 2022). He worked during 4 years (2013-2016) as Professor for German Language and Culture at Euro District Language School (EDLS) in Kehl. Mr. Schweizer worked from 2013 to 2021 as project developer, international expert, backstopper and researcher in the field of International Cooperation and Development at the Kehl Institute of Applied Research (KIAF). There he gained extensive experience in the design and coordination of projects in the field of decentralization and administrative reform as well as human capacity development for public administrations in countries of the global south, in particular in Africa. Many of the projects were carried out in cooperation with international development institutions (GIZ, KfW, EU, DAAD, Engagement Global etc.). Most of the projects supervised by Mr. Schweizer were in cooperation with African countries. Clemens Schweizer has conducted a research project as part of his PhD thesis at the Université de Pau et Pays de l'Adour / France under the direction of Prof. Jean Gourdou and Prof. Ewald Eisenberg on Local Government Training and Capacity Development in West Africa, focusing on the example of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Already during his university studies (Diplom in public management, Master in European Public Management), Schweizer specialized himself in the fields of development cooperation and professional training design, spending almost a year working in training institutes for local government civil servants in Mali and South Africa.

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Current professional activity

• Lecturer – University of Applied Sciences Kehl

Publications

Study on the impact of digital access to legal texts and court decisions – Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Sénégal and Kenya

This study investigates the impact of digital access to legal texts and court rulings in three West African countries—Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal—drawing on Kenya as a comparative reference for best practices in judicial digitalisation. It assesses how digital technologies...

Etude du cadre juridique relatif à l’anonymisation des documents judiciaires publiés au Sénégal et en Côte d’Ivoire

L'étude examine le cadre juridique de l'anonymisation des décisions judiciaires publiées en Côte d'Ivoire et au Sénégal, en mettant l’accent sur la protection des données personnelles dans les décisions de justice. Ce travail s'inscrit dans le cadre du projet régional...

Etude du cadre juridique de la publication des textes légaux et des décisions de justice au Sénégal

This legal study, conducted within the framework of the GIZ regional project "Promotion of the Rule of Law and Justice in Africa (ProLa)", analyses the legal framework governing the publication of laws and judicial decisions in Senegal. The study examines...

Coopération interuniversitaire avec les pays du Sahel – entre faiblesses structurelles et adaptation au contexte

The article "Coopération interuniversitaire avec les pays du Sahel - entre faiblesses structurelles et adaptation au contexte" discusses the challenges and necessary adaptations in inter-university cooperation between universities of the Global North and universities in Sahelian countries. It highlights structural...

Decentralisation, subsidiarity and capacity development for local governments in francophone West Africa

There is an obvious general trend towards decentralisation in West Africa. This leads to changes in administrative structure. In this article, we develop and elaborate on a point that is often overlooked in decentralisation reform, namely local government capacity. We...