“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…

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…

VNG International is since September part of the international YEP network. YEP – the Young Expert Programme enables Dutch organisations to offer their young Dutch and local…

As some of you might know, last years’ annual meeting of the Capacity and Institution Building (CIB) Working Group of United Cities and Local Governments saw a discussion on…

European Commission grants San José Metropolitan Area project for sustainable urban mobility MUEVE -Movilidad Sostenible, Urbanismo, Equipamiento, Valoración del Espacio Público…

Last week, Jan van Zanen, Chairman of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) attended the High-Level Political Forum 2019 in New York, as part of the official…

A kitchen window blown from its frame; rain slanting horizontally inwards; part of the roof torn into the sky; tropical storm Idai struck the home of Peter van Tongeren on 14…

Gender equality is nothing but an idea if not put into practice. I understood that quite quickly after having started working. Gender equality cannot be reduced to a concept, a…

On the 25th of June VNG International supported the Government of Sint Maarten in organizing the largest Hurricane Exercise (HUREX) Sint Maarten has seen of yet. A total of…