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…

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…

On Saturday 25th September the National Federation of Tunisian Cities (FNVT) transformed into the National Federation of Tunisian Municipalities (FNCT). Ever since 2011 VNG…

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…

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…

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 (…

  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…

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…

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…