Newsletter – n°12 – June 2012
Headlines
Rio+20: lukewarm results
There’s a long list of disillusions at the end of the UN sustainable development summit, Rio+20: no binding objectives in the final document, no agenda or roadmap, no agreement on a financing system for sustainable development or on the creation...
News from the Secretariat
Meeting of the LRA in EU development policy working group
The LRA in EU development policy working group met on 25 June in order to evaluate the different advocacy activities carried out by the PLATFORMA partners and the secretariat during these past few months. Indeed, the network elaborated position...
News from partners
General assembly of European Municipalities and Regions
Decentralisation, democracy and development: these three themes will be at the heart of the General Assembly of European Municipalities and Regions, to take place from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Cadiz, Spain...
World Regions Summit
With the occasion of Rio +20, Regions United / FOGAR, in partnership with the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Climate Group, and Nrg4SD, co-organised the World Regions Summit, which was held on 19 June in Rio de Janeiro...
ARIAL publications and tools
The ARIAL programme – under the lead of VNG International – has made available an online publications system for local government associations (LGAs). The system provides access to publications and tools for LGAs to strengthen their organisation...
Initiative worth following
Dialogue between the EU, LRAs and CSOs on fragile states
The European Commission showed great enthusiasm to work with local and regional authorities (LRAs) in a domain where the results of international action are not conclusive. The year 2011 marks a turn in the way conflict prevention, crisis management...
In other news
Final publication of the LOCALNETcoop project of Arco Latino
Arco Latino presents the final publication of the LOCALNETcoop project: “The learning network: towards a common model of decentralised cooperation”. The objective of the project was the creation of a decentralised cooperation model in the...
Calendar
Coming soon
2-3 July 2012 (Paris, France) : Decentralised cooperation forum, organised by CUF
5-6 July 2012 (New-York, USA) : United Nations Forum for development
10-11 July 2012 (Brussels, Belgium) : Regional seminars project ; methodological seminar
