One year ago, a military coup happened in Myanmar and VNG International project activities came to a standstill.

The Secretariat of the Development Partners Network on Decentralisation and Local Governance (DeLoG), Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), VNG International and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) jointly invite you to a webinar on:

"Decentralisation and Local Governance in Authoritarian Contexts."

The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 December 2020, at 10 am - 11:30 am CET.

A new generation of women leaders is emerging in Tunisia. Following the adoption in 2016 of an amendment to the Tunisian electoral law that included a provision supporting gender parity among municipal councils, 47% of representatives elected in the 2018 local elections were women. However, discrimination against women is ongoing and often undermines their involvement in local politics.

In September 2020 the World Bank launched a flagship report Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The

There are many ways to promote LED. Not necessarily better or worse ways, but different ways. This publication attempts to capitalise on this diversity, drawing on the experience VNG International and its partners gained in implementing ASPIRE in Somaliland and Somalia (Puntland State), as well as the experience of other organisations and programmes in the same field.

In view of the upcoming virtual CIB annual meeting, we would like to ask the CIB members to share information on examples of the COVID-19 activities that they are developing within their ongoing international capacity programmes with local governments. These can be short text paragraphs, or links to your own website or other documents. Please find an example of an activity of VNG International in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

On the 14th of May 2020 from 03:00 pm to 04:30pm CEST, DeLoG and VNG International will conduct a webinar on pathways for local authorities to deal with protracted urban violence.

To register for this webinar, please click here.

The Development Partners Network on Decentralisation and Local Governance (DeLoG) and VNG International jointly invite you to a webinar on pathways for local authorities to deal with protracted urban violence.

On April 2nd, the CIB Working Group organized a webinar on Women Leadership, which was attended by almost 90 participants.

From 23-25 May, the 13th Annual Meeting of the Development Partners Network on Decentralisation and Local Governance (DeLoG) took place in The Hague, the Netherlands, hosted by VNG International. Around 30 participants from bi- and multilateral organisations working in the field of decentralisation and local governance took part in DeLoG’s 13^th annual meeting and contributed to fruitful discussions.

Since 2014, VNG International has been supporting local government and communities in a locally-initiated process to regulate cattle migration, an important source of conflict between communities in South Sudan.