Jan 21, 2020
Municipalities of Deventer, Goirle and Oss become winners in Global Goals awards!
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…
Jan 20, 2020
VNG International’s New Year’s Reception: “SDGs are a formula to think local and act global”
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…
Dec 15, 2019 - Libya
Kick off of Improved Service delivery and Accountability at the Local level in Libya programme
VNG International and its affiliate International Development Center for the Innovative Local Governance (CILG) have successfully organized the official kick off of the Improved…
Dec 13, 2019 - Mali
Grants for integrated and inclusive water governance
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…
Dec 12, 2019 - Philippines
We win as one
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…
Dec 05, 2019
Renew Europe, displacement, migration
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…
Nov 25, 2019 - Tunisia
Local Government Association of Tunisia
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…
Nov 21, 2019 - China
Responsibility as a goal, friendship as a means
“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…
Oct 18, 2019 - Ghana
Meeting the City Makers in Kumasi and Sèmè-Podji
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…