A small jail. Not for me but for most of the Kosovars. This beautiful natured country is surrounded by spectacular mountain ridges. It is not these natural borders that confine the Kosovars in Kosovo. Almost twenty years after the Kosovo 1998-1999 conflict in which ethnic Albanians opposed ethnic Serbs and the government of Yugoslavia (the […]
Last week, two playgrounds and communal public gathering place were inaugurated by the Netherlands ambassador to Lebanon, H.E. Jan Waltmans. The spaces were co-designed by the Syrian and Lebanese communities of the town of Kawkba with assistance from VNG International and the expert input of public planners from Lebanon and the municipality of The Hague. […]
On 24 October, a webinar on working in countries and cities in crisis was co-organized by the CIB working group and the UCLG Working Group on prevention and management of territorial crisis and hosted by FCM. This virtual environment provided an opportunity to share experience and good practices in working in countries and cities in […]
On the 11th and 12th of October 2018, the Annual Forum on land management on a local level was organised by the Association Nationale des Communes du Bénin (ANCB – National association of municipalities in Benin), in cooperation with the Association Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier (ANDF – National association of land affairs). We […]
On 9 and 10 October, CILG-VNG International organised the International Conference on Cross-Border Cooperation: Lessons for the Tunisian-Libyan Case. The spirit of the conference is perhaps best captured by an Arabic proverb, quoted by ms. Fatima Ben Soltane from Mediterravenir: “Take care of your neighbours before taking care of your house”. During the plenary sessions, […]
On October 3rd, the “Municipal Accountability, Governance and Inclusive Communities” (MAGIC) project was launched in Yangon, Myanmar. The morning session covered the launching ceremony with a presentation of the MAGIC project and the publication of a booklet “Social Accountability in Action, Stories from Dawei and Myeik in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar”. During the Local Governnace seminar […]
Uganda is faced with the daunting task of hosting refugees from South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Eritrea among others. It is not clear how many tribal and ethnic divisions exist among these refugees, however a quick assessment of Koboko Municipality and Adjumani Town Council, indicates existence of more than 25 different tribal […]
For all our Spanish listeners…please hear back the 15 minute interview of Caracol Radio with our VNG International Pereira DEALS expert, Felipe Vásquez, and the Secretary of Rural Development from the municipality of Pereira, Ms. Carolina Cardona, on inclusive waste management and circular economy in the city of Pereira in Colombia. Click here for the […]
Stories from Dawei and Myeik in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. Click here: Promotion of Participatory and Accountable Local Governance (PALGO) in Tanintharyi Region. Case studies, lessons learned and best practices from the PALGO Social Accountability training series. Published: September 2018 – Lucia Nass, Susanne Kempel, Nay Zin Latt and Kyaw Swa Swe
Jordan, September 16th VNG International, together with the municipality of Amsterdam and the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation in Jordan (MOPIC) launches the Manual for Jordan’s Future Planning Scenario! The intention of the scenario planning trajectory within the Local Governments Resilience Programme (LOGOReP) is to improve the situation in the Jordanian governorate of Mafraq, […]
Two years after the project ‘From Fragile to Stable: Peacebuilding in Guatemala’, we received the good news that the municipality of Santo Domingo Xenacoj today publically and proudly presents its own Municipal Conflict Prevention Policy. The policy is a joint effort of the community conflict prevention committee, the Mayor and the municipal council. Our project […]
A hike, a bike and good company. The Dutch kick-off of the RPM week raised some questions: “Why do you have a bike with you?” “Are we going to walk to the office?”. The local teams from South Sudan, Mali, Rwanda, Burundi, the Palestinian Territories and Somaliland did some sightseeing on their way to VNG […]
