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28/04/2018

Call for participants, Connective Cities Dialogue Event, July 9th- 11th, Cologne, Germany

Local Government Associations: Capacity building through exchange of good practices and peer-to-peer learning

In the context of urbanization worldwide, Local Government Associations are assuming a crucial role in supporting their members, the cities and local governments. They articulate the local governments’ interests, exert pressure on the national level to create suitable frame conditions, provide information and support the capacity building of their members. The New Urban Agenda, for example, recognizes their role as “as promoters and providers of capacity development”.

Despite significant differences in the structures, legal roles and experience, Local Government Associations often face similar challenges. Many of them have developed innovative and effective solutions for these challenges, but too often these solutions remain unknown to other LGAs which could profit from them.

That is why the international exchange platform Connective Cities and its initiators, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Association of Cities and Engagement Global with its Service Agency Communities in One World, invites practitioners from Local Government Associations to the Dialogue Event “Local Government Associations: Capacity building through exchange of good practices and peer-to-peer learning”, to be held in Cologne, Germany in from 9-11 July 2018.

The event is geared towards practitioners, experts and decision-makers from the staff of Local Government Associations both in Germany and on the international level. The goal of the event is to share good practices, to discuss concrete challenges in a peer-to-peer-approach and develop project ideas that support capacity building within the participating LGAs, strengthening their role as the voice of cities. The participants will have an active role in this knowledge sharing process and at the same time, they will be able to reinforce their individual capacities and enhance the practitioners’ network.

For further information please refer to the attached call for participants. If you wish to participate and actively contribute to the dialogue event as well as if you have any queries about it, we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible, before May 22rd, 2018.

<link file:5178 download for>Call for participants [pdf  414 kb]


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Connective Cities


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