Humanitarian Assistance

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Aid & assistance, Financing

Aid & assistance, Financing

“Official Development Assistance isn’t as generous as the figures might suggest”

By Marlène Siméon, Director of PLATFORMA $204 billion. This is the total amount of aid provided in...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

FEMP is improving access to data on Official Development Assistance by local governments

The Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), with the assistance of the internatio...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

Cités Unies France supports Turkish local authorities affected by the earthquake

10 February 2023

Cités Unies France has decided to launch a solidarity fund for the local governments affected by th...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

Call for cities and regions to provide generators for Ukraine

17 January 2023

The European Commission and the Committee of the Regions have launched a humanitarian appeal to Eu...

Aid & assistance, Eastern Partnership

Aid & assistance, Eastern Partnership

French associations of local governments voice out about their support to Ukraine

14 December 2022

48 States and 24 international public institutions were invited to the International Conference in S...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

European mayors eye long-term partnerships with counterparts to rebuild Ukraine

By Vlagyiszlav Makszimov | EURACTIV.com Leaders of European cities and towns a...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

Register to the matching platform for Ukrainian and other European cities

Ukrainian municipalities have started to provide information about their needs on the recently launc...

Aid & assistance, COVID-19

Aid & assistance, COVID-19

Discover how Cités Unies France and UCLG used the Module 4 on the ground in Ghana & Mali

3 February 2022

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, Cités Unies France (CUF) has identified the most impacted local co...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

The Basque Programme for the Temporary Protection of Human Rights Defenders celebrates its 10th anniversary

8 November 2021

In Bilbao, on 27 October, an event was held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Basque Programm...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

eLankidetza supports humanitarian projects in conflicts and situations of violence

13 September 2021

eLankidetza-Basque Agency for Development Cooperation will contribute 4.5 million euros to support 2...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

Euskal Fondoa organised its General Assembly

29 September 2020

Euskal Fondoa, an Association that currently brings together 115 Cooperating Basque Local Entities, ...

Southern neighbourhood

Southern neighbourhood

Register to our webinar EU Neighbourhood South – Safeguarding human rights in the post-COVID-19 context

14 September 2020

PLATFORMA and the Parliamentary assembly of the Mediterranean are jointly organising a webinar on &#...

Aid & assistance, Southern neighbourhood

Aid & assistance, Southern neighbourhood

Cités Unies France sets a Solidarity fund for Lebanon

On Tuesday August 4, two explosions destroyed the port of Beirut and affected a large part of the ci...

Aid & assistance

Aid & assistance

MEP Tomas Tobé – Involving local governments to improve aid effectiveness

The involvement of the local and regional level is crucial to achieve results in development coopera...

Interview: Urpilainen on COVID-19 – “we are very much working together with the local communities, and local and regional organisations”

This interview with International Partnerships Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen by Beatriz Rios was ...

Opinion article | EU global response to COVID-19: a global pandemic with local solutions!

This op-ed by PLATFORMA Director, Marlène Siméon, was originally published in English in Euractiv...

Fons Mallorquí: three emergency projects to reduce the effects of COVID-19 in southern countries

Three emergency projects have been approved by the Executive commission of Fons Mallorquí to reduce...

Towns and regions are acting worldwide to fight against COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is now spread all over the world and some countries will be soon heavily impac...

Our 11 recommendations for a coordinated global response to COVID-19

As a pandemic, COVID-19 is a truly global problem which knows no borders. As such, the European Unio...

Fons Mallorquí approves its cooperation projects for 2019

On March 15, the 26th General Assembly of partners from Fons Mallorquí approved the budget, lines o...

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