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…

Following the unprecedented worldwide developments around Covid-19 (coronavirus), the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG), has temporarily closed its office in The…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

VNG International and its affiliate International Development Center for the Innovative Local Governance (CILG) have successfully organized the official kick off of the Improved…

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…