Tips to make your city-to-city & region-to-region development cooperation project a success

PLATFORMA just published a handbook on how to make decentralised cooperation projects a success! It is intended to help many local and regional governments all around the world. Let's have a look!

Can Europe’s towns and regions help Libyan cities?

Libyan local authorities are painstakingly trying to mend what five years of conflict across the country have shattered. And to do this, they desperately need technical expertise from Europe’s towns and regions. This is where decentralised cooperation must show its added value, and this is exactly why PLATFORMA joined the Libya initiative set up within the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) and on the initiative of Nicosia municipality.

Decentralised cooperation in the spotlight at Nantes Climate Chance Summit

Final lap before Quito – speaking up for local and regional governments’ role in the new Urban Agenda

“Although in Flanders two thirds of public investments are done by local governments, VVSG has not yet received any invitation from the Belgian government to take part in the country’s delegation to Habitat III [final conference].” Declared Betty de Wachter from CEMR’s Flemish association, the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (VVSG), regarding the seat at the global table.

2nd Decentralised cooperation Assises in Benin

The 2nd edition of Decentralised cooperation Assises in Benin organized by Cités Unies France (CUF) will take place in Cotonou from 7 to 9 November. It will be an opportunity to bring together local governments of Benin and their French partners, but also their European counterparts.

One month to go before UCLG World Summit in Bogotá: what is at stake?

Mediterranean Regions must unite to tackle challenges

The CPMR Intermediterranean Commission (IMC) has stated that Regions have a key role to play in rebuilding the European Union and developing a better Europe and Mediterranean for citizens.

LED: a framework for localising the SDGs

Local economic development is an approach for achieving social, economic and spatial development and for local government to play a strong role in achieving the SDGs, participants at CLGF’s 2016 South Asia regional meeting agreed.

UPCOMING

• 6-7 September (Paris, France) : CUF – Training « Climate and decentralised cooperation: tools to diagnose, mobilise and finance » [in French] (second training, coorganised with ARENE Ile de France)
• 12 September: United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
• 14-16 September (Can Tho, Vietnam) : CUF – 10^th assises of decentralised cooperation France-Vietnam
• 22 September (Görlitz, Germany): AEBR – General Assembly and Annual Conference 2016
• 22-23 September (Sousse, Tunisia): Workshops of the Mediterranean commission of UCLG (UCLG, CPMR, CUF, Catalonia Region and other PLATFORMA partners will be present)
• 26-28 September (Nantes, France): Climate Chance Summit – World Summit of Climate Action
• 30 September (Accra, Ghana): Covenant of Mayors Sub-Saharan Africa – Advisory board meeting
• 5-6 October (Tours, France): 5^th meetings of France-Japan decentralised cooperation
• 6-7 October (Lille/Arras, France) : 3^rd European University of AFCCRE
• 12-15 October (Bogotá, Columbia): World Summit of Local and Regional governments - UCLG Congress and 2nd World Assembly (Second session)
• 16 October (Quito, Ecuador): 2^nd World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments (Third session)
• 17-20 October (Quito, Ecuador): Habitat III Conference
• 3-4 November (Rome, Italy): PLATFORMA Steering Committee
• 7-9 November (Cotonou, Benin): CUF – 2^nd Assises of decentralised cooperation in Benin. These 2^nd assises will have a pan-European dimension.
• 17-18 November (Tbilisi, Georgia): 2^nd PLATFORMA Eastern Partnership Seminar
• 11-12 December (Tehran, Iran): First International Conference on Women & Urban Life