MAGIC first Project Steering Committee meeting – Hakha, 21 February 2020
I was wondering whether the first PSC meeting was going to happen? Just after the Chin National Day events on 20th February, with many delegations from in and outside Chin State…
Impressions of a Colombian sustainability scientist from his first UN-Habitat World Urban Forum
Perceptions Walking into the WUF10 for the very first time was an astonishing experience. The size of the venue, the amount of people, the diversity of nationalities, the…
Governing local security In the chieftaincy of Buhavu, DRC
Today, the Rift Valley Institute and VNG International publish “Governing local security in the eastern Congo : Decentralization, police reform and interventions in the…
Buhavu Chefferie 2020 Budget Conference
The decentralized territorial entity Chefferie de Buhavu held on 27 and 28 January 2020 in Minova, South Kivu, the budget conference dedicated to the fiscal year 2020. 80 people…
Pereira City Guide
Since the beginning of this project, at least two colleagues have asked me for some guidance in the coffee zone of Colombia, and from today onwards, I’ll proudly send them the…
Boosting local economic development takes partnership and collaboration to succeed
Before the Christmas holiday, Stephan Kooijman from the Economic Department of the Municipality of Haarlem went for the first time to Tunisia. We met just a couple of months ago…
Waste or Water – like ‘potato - potato’?
Working on waste, what does that have to do with water? Well, quite a lot. The two sectors cannot be more interlinked. In Pathein, but also the Ayeyarwady Region, plastic waste…
IDEAL Mali delegation in Burkina Faso: time to learn about the neighbours practices!
From the 1st to the 6th of December 2019, 32 Malian water managers travelled to Burkina Faso, to learn more about how decentralized water governance is organized by their ‘…
Conference of Francophone LGAs
As part of the learning agenda of IDEAL, one of VNG Internationals programs financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a conference bringing together 5 African Local…