Dec 12, 2018
Community at the core of Pereira City Lab Circular Economy
This week the City Lab Circular Economy and Inclusive Waste Management COLABORA was launched in Pereira, Colombia with the support of the Governance of Inclusive Green Growth (…
Dec 06, 2018 - Kosovo
Back to Kosovo
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…
Nov 19, 2018
First communal playground for Syrian and Lebanese children opened
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…
Oct 29, 2018
Crisis: how to prevent or what to do?
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…
Oct 16, 2018
Annual forum on land management in Benin
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…
Oct 15, 2018
International conference on cross-border cooperation
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…
Oct 09, 2018
Magical start in Myanmar
On October 3rd, the “Municipal Accountability, Governance and Inclusive Communities” (MAGIC) project was launched in Yangon, Myanmar. The morning session covered the launching…
Oct 08, 2018
Cultural adaptation’- Working towards Social Cohesion
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…
Oct 04, 2018
Listen to the radio
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…