Following the unprecedented worldwide developments around Covid-19 (coronavirus), the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), has temporarily closed its office in The Hague. VNG International is instructing its employees to work from home to reduce the risk to public health, effective immediately, with a view to reviewing this position on the 6th of April 2020. We […]
From 8-13 February 2020, the Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF10) takes place in Abu Dhabi and VNG will be there with the following delegation: We are looking forward to meeting you soon!
Our daugther company, CILG-VNG International, held a networking gathering to celebrate the New Year in a convivial sphere with their local, national and international partners. Special guests gave a short speeches to express their genuine interest in local governance and democratic transitions, reconfirming their support to CILG-VNG International programs and renewed their belief in the […]
On 29 January VNG International participated in the first Taskforce meeting of the Connecting Diaspora for Development (CD4D) programme. This programme is coordinated by IOM, the United Nations International Organisation for Migration. Through the transfer of knowledge and expertise, CD4D2 engages diaspora to support the development of their countries of origin. The active role of […]
In the Global Goals municipal awards, the Dutch municipalities Deventer, Goirle and Oss emerged as winners in three different categories. A record number of municipalities submitted a good practice for the awards. Increasing number of candidacies The increasing amount of new municipalities which submitted an example of how they work with the Global Goals clearly […]
On 17 January, VNG International hosted its New Year’s Reception, welcoming around 200 guests at the “Willemshof” building. This event saw the yearly Global Goals awards (in a renewed set-up) and the VNG also became a ‘Global Goals House’ on the spot. Aside from these celebrations, Ms. Emilia Sáiz, Secretary General of the global organization […]
Since the beginning of 2019, grants have been made available to the partner municipalities of the IDEAL Mali programme; these envelopes are intended to carry out actions of each municipality’s strategic and operational annual plans, in connection with integrated water resources management (IWRM). Some of the communes have opted for awareness raising activities targeting their […]
My heart beats with competition. I don’t know where to look when people say that participation is more important than winning. Drone show at the closing ceremony of the 2019 SEA GAMES, The Philippines I leave that part of parenting of my children to my husband. My voice is loud and convincing when I sing […]
Today I am in Brussels with the Renew Europe group of the European Parliament. The roundtable session puts Members of the European Parliament, implementers of EU programmes and analysts together to discuss the effectiveness of EU policies in displacement and migration. Migration links dynamics within the EU with those at its borders and in the […]
In Tunisia we currently have no less than four projects: one Dutch, one Canadian and two EU. All of them involve the Fédération Nationale des Villes Tunisiennes, the Tunesian LGA, in some way. This association, a longtime partner of VNG, has its yearly general assembly now. Tunisia is seriously forging ahead with decentralisation, and even […]
“Responsibility as a goal, friendship as a means”. That is how Mr. Wim van de Donk, King’s Commissioner for the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant characterised their partnership with the Chinese province of Jiangsu. It also applies to the partnership between the Dutch city of Oss and the city of Taizhou (in Jiangsu province). I was […]
Jeroen Diepemaat, alderman of the Dutch municipality of Enschede, and Julian Baskin, special advisor at Cities Alliance, Members of the advisory committee of the Governance of Inclusive Green Growth in Cities (DEALS) programme set foot on the ground in Kumasi (Ghana) and Sèmè-Podji (Benin) from 2-4 of October 2019. They were accompanied in both cities […]
