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The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) has launched an ambitious new learning and development initiative, together with the country’s leading tertiary institutions. At the new SALGA Centre for Leadership...
Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO B2) at the European Commission (EC) has launched a brainstorming process that aims at clarifying the Territorial Approach to Local Development (TALD)...
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has launched a new five-year program, “Sustainable and Inclusive Communities in Latin America” (CISAL, 2015-2019, $20 million), funded by the Canadian government’s department...
The first LoGICA scorecards on the state of local governance systems, resulting from the Local Governance Institutions Comparative Assessment (LoGICA) framework, have been published, e.g. on Indonesia, Cambodia and Tanzania. The...
Following the signing of the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) between United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) and the European Commission (EC) earlier this year, UCLG Africa is now conducting a series...

Publications

Millenium Development Goals report 2015
IDB Sector Framework Document on Subnational Governments and Decentralization
Local Governance Institutions Comparative Assessment (LoGICA) framework (background document)
The Challenge of Local Government Financing in Development Countries