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Newsletter – n°33 – May 2015

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Time to recall the legitimacy and added value of local and regional actions

On the 19th of May, the French Association of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (AFCCRE) gathered 120 representatives of the civil society and of local and regional governments to discuss issues related to the conservation of solidarity-based and international cooperation policies for the territories...

News from partners

Partnership for better local governance

The Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKL) is working in partnership with two cities in Iraq – Diwaniyah and Duhok. The aim of the partnership is to support strengthened governance and management in the social care sector by addressing issues of service provision and service quality, accessibility, accountability, responsiveness, effectiveness, and coordination- cooperation between legislative and executive powers at the sub-national level...

Georgian local authorities and civil society: joint efforts to strengthen local governance

The National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia (NALAG), in collaboration with the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA), is carrying out a project to further reinforce the participation of civil society in local decision-making processes...

The world at a glance

2015 Commonwealth Local Government Conference in Botswana

The 2015 Commonwealth Local Government Conference, held in Gaborone, Botswana on the 16^th to the 19^th of June 2015, will look at how local governments can play their full part in development to improve the lives of the 2.2 billion people who live in the Commonwealth...

Initiative worth following

Cooperation between German and Latin American cities

Due to the increasing urbanization in Latin America, cities now face huge challenges in the field of urban mobility. Many of them have started to develop strategies locally and are now sharing their cooperation initiatives through at the national and international level...

Calendar

Coming Soon

1 - 2 June (Brussels, Belgium): IV European Conference on Decentralised Cooperation, organised by the Committee of the Regions

3 - 4 June (Brussels, Belgium): European Development Days, organised by the European Commission; consult the event webpage

4 - 5 June (Marseille, France): the MEDCOP21, organised by the Provence Alpes Cote d’Azur Region; consult the event webpage

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Calm before the storm

If the past month has been marked at the institutional level by the Parliament’s adoption of the resolution on the financing for development, and by the Council’s conclusion on the new Global Partnership for the post-2015, sharpening the EU position for the Conference in Addis Abbaba, May has been relatively calm compared to the week ahead in Brussels. Thousands of people are currently converging on the European capital to celebrate the Assises of Decentralised Cooperation, the European Development Days and the Forum of Mayors of Latin America and the EU. If the quality of the debates level up the carbon footprint of the events, and if, at the end of the week, our beliefs are strengthened and our ideas enriched, it will already be a huge success. Regardless of the outcome, it is now more than ever the opportunity for local and regional elected representatives to be mobilized on gender issues, urbanization, governance, energy, education or climate and they are ready to defend their legitimacy and their action in all these areas. PLATFORMA will take part in many debates, and will keep on getting involved in June on many topics such as climate issues, with the preparation of the World Summit on Climate and Territories in Lyon and the European Neighbourhood Policy with an event in Riga; hoping that you continue to follow and support us!