Middle East

nicosia Last week, VNG International successfully supported the attendance of 18 Libyan mayors and municipality focal points in the 10th plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM) in Sevilla, Spain.

The project is contracted by the European Commission and financed by the EU's Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis ("MADAD"). 
This project is carried out in cooperation with the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD), Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM), and KL Denmark (KL). 
 
The wider objective of the project is: To strengthen the long-term resilience of targeted subnational governments and their host, refugee and IDP populations to deal with displacement.

Today, I am in Mosul, Iraq. An iconic city throughout the multiple crises that afflicted the country in its recent history. Frantic reconstruction is taking place; but for the inhabitants of this city of two million before IS, it is not fast enough.

The wider objective of the project was to make municipal governance in Jordan more effective.

The wider objective of the project is to enhance Palestinian Local Authorities' contribution to governance and development processes in Area C, as a precondition for more equitable, open and democratic society. 
 
The specific objectives: 
1. Strengthen the institutional and operational capacities of the Palestinian Local Authority Association (APLA); 
2. Enable APLA advocate for and lobby on issues related to Area C on behalf of its members (Local Authorities -LAs);

The overall objective of the project is To increase administrative capacity at local level in Turkey's EU Accession process. In line with this objective, the purpose of the project is To create sustainable structures for exchange between local authorities in Turkey and EU Member States in areas relevant for EU Accession. 
 
Pursuant to the overall objective and the purpose, expected results to be achieved by the end of the project are as follows:

The overall objective is to investigate how decentralisation of property tax can contribute to enhance (property) tax revenues to enable municipalities in Palestine to deliver improved basic services to citizens. 
Specific objectives are: Enhanced property tax revenues and services to citizens when they are given a full mandate to collect property tax themselves.