On 19 October 2020, the municipality of Arsal hosted a public hearing on the environmental impact assessment of a pilot solid waste management project. The solid waste management project in the town of Arsal is implemented through a partnership between the International Orthodox Christian Charities – (IOCC) and VNG International and financed by the European […]
Thursday 15 October – the IDEAL team meets Jornt van Zuylen (programme manager Local Democracy in Action at VNG) to discuss democratic concepts, values and democracy in practice both in the Netherlands and abroad. These days it is mostly the non-voters who are on the winning side in the Netherlands, the so-called “silent majority”. In […]
If anything, 2020 has taught us about the flexibility and adaptivity of our partner local governments, both in Uganda and in the Netherlands. While COVID-19 has naturally led to a delay in programme implementation, it has also allowed us to improve our online communication and platforms to facilitate dialogue between our Ugandan and Dutch local […]
On Saturday 25th September the National Federation of Tunisian Cities (FNVT) transformed into the National Federation of Tunisian Municipalities (FNCT). Ever since 2011 VNG International and its daughter organisation CILG in Tunis, have provided support to this long path of democratisation. This support has been reinforced when FCM, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities joined hands […]
VNG International’s proposed project “Civil Society Partnership Facility for Resilience” was recently approved by the World Bank and the Steering Committee of the Trust Fund for St Maarten – established to provide assistance to the island after the devastating hurricane Irma in 2017. The project aims at strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations on […]
At the beginning of July, VNG International interviewed Mayors from three foreign cities, Helsingborg (Sweden), la Marsa (Tunisia) and Genk (Belgium), as input for an item on international good practices with regard to COVID-19 in the VNG magazine. You will find all three interviews through the links below. – Peter Danielsson, Mayor of Helsingborg, Sweden […]
Source: UCLG 2020 United Nations High-Level Political Forum 7 – 16 July 2020, Local and Regional Government’s Agenda The 2020 United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on sustainable development will be held from Tuesday 7 July, to Thursday 16 July 2020, under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council. This year’s theme is “Accelerated […]
On the 17th of June, the CIB secretariat facilitated a first online CIB annual meeting, with more than 150 participants from all around the world. Practitioners working on international programmes at local government associations and individual cities gathered to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on local government development cooperation. outputs from the meeting will be […]
Following the 12 Live Learning events on COVID-19 and various topics (gender equality, mobility, technology, informalities, the role of local and regional government associations) which took place between March and May 2020, UCLG has launched a Decalogue – a document displaying the main challenges and opportunities after the COVID-19 crisis, and how to strongly involve […]
We are proud to have been awarded a #1 ranking score for our We Are Able! programme, which we designed together with ZOA (lead), the African Disability Forum, Light for the World, the Leprosy Mission and The Hague Academy for Local Governance. The programme will be funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs under […]
Last week our team in Eastern DR Congo was getting prepared to support the Chiefdom of Buhavu and the Territory of Kalehe in the fight against Covid-19: from the distribution of water tanks to the support and briefing of the local committees which are closest to the citizens, the team did all it could, together […]
With numbers of confirmed cases and deaths due to the COVID-19 virus still rising every day in the Netherlands, the Association of Netherlands Municipalities is playing a vital role as linking pin between its members, the central government and other organisations. Many umbrella organisations (e.g. sport unions, hotels and restaurants, entrepreneurs) are reaching out to […]
