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Aid & assistance, Financing

Aid & assistance, Financing

Last year, the Basque public institutions allocated more than €81 million to solidarity initiatives in Southern countries

10 October 2023

In 2022, Basque public development cooperation institutions supported 1,189 initiatives in 68 countr...

The Basque government is organising a workshop on decentralised cooperation in Brussels

The Basque Government Agency for Development Cooperation (eLankidetza) will give a workshop and pres...

France | First call for projects in support of decentralised cooperation in the field of local finances

The Delegation for the external action of local governments (DAECT) of the French Ministry of Europe...

More than 4 million inhabitants in French-speaking cities will benefit from 10 projects financed by AIMF

The Bureau of the International Association of French-speaking Mayors (AIMF) voted on 28 April at Pa...

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...

Local government leaders renew their partnerships with the EU to boost international development

12 September 2022

The presidents of the five largest associations of local and regional governments met today (12 Sept...

MEPs: “All actors should be involved from the beginning until the end of projects”

Local and regional government should be even better involved in the EU development policy, said in s...

Fostering municipalities’ development potential in Albania

NALAS has completed the first phase of the evaluation of the grant applications from Albanian Munici...

Implementing a systems approach for effective property taxation in Ghana

9 December 2021

Ghanaian local governments – metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies (MMDAs) – face sev...

Spotlight on local and regional governments’ access to EU innovative development financing

30 September 2021

The latest United Cities and Local Governments-PLATFORMA study outlines the main funding mechanisms...

Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen: “We will support local action and actors”

14 December 2020

“Multi-stakeholder partnerships are an essential part of our work with Civil Society Organisations...

Policy, Financing

Policy, Financing

How towns, regions and their associations can contribute to the 2021-2027 EU Programming

27 November 2020

The forthcoming new Neighbourhood, Development, International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), still ...

Have a look at the 2019 annual report of the Brussels development cooperation

10 November 2020

Brussels International recently published the 2019 annual report of the Brussels development coopera...

The state of local finances in southeast Europe

5 November 2020

The Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS) has just published “...

Encouraging the development of digital socio-business initiatives in Kenya with the Basque Country

At the occasion of the UN Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises World Day 2020, PLATFORMA is pr...

Financing, COVID-19

Financing, COVID-19

Upcoming recovery package and MFF should support municipalities and regions

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear: local and regional governments are playing ...

EU delegations in partner countries are also there to help decentralised cooperation projects and partnerships

“Get in touch with EU delegation, they are your key allies in partner countries”, said in substa...

Financing, COVID-19

Financing, COVID-19

Innovation, Proximity & Solidarity: Local Economic Development as Immediate Response

Local and regional governments are playing a key innovative role in giving impetus to the maintenanc...

Fons Mallorquí approved projects and lines of action for 2020

The Mallorcan Found has approved the projects of the municipal programs and of the Mediterranean and...

Co-rapporteur Maria Arena reiterates European Parliament strong support to local governments in NDICI negotiations

29 January 2020

MEP Maria Arena (S&D, Belgium) made clear that the EU must guarantee funding for local and regio...

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