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1st Go Local Conference - "Local Answers to Global Challenges" - 6th March, Maia - Portugal

30 Jan

Instituto Marquês de Valle de Flôr (IMVF), Non-governmental Development Organisation, with more than 60 years of activity in the promotion of cooperation, and Maia Municipality will organise, on 6th March 2013, in Maia - Portugal, an International Conference under the theme "Local Answers to Global Challenges"...
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Make Water a driver for decentralisation

30 Jan

International cooperation has increased in the water and sanitation sector over the last decade. Besides inter-state cooperation (i.e. Official Development Assistance - ODAs), another form of public cooperation has developed at the municipality level. Through decentralized cooperation municipalities provide institutional, financing and technical support to one another. The objective is to support decentralization in order to scale up municipalities’ technical and financing capacities...
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Message from the Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

17 Sep

"I believe that cooperation should be directed to accompany countries and other partners to develop and empower its institutions and human resources. The Portuguese cooperation should promote the necessary conditions to help develop local economies and increasingly secure sustainable living conditions to their populations. ...
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Activating Citizenship

17 Sep

The European Year of Citizens 2013 will focus on rights that every EU citizen has. All 500 million Europeans benefit daily from these rights – as does the European economy.

The European Year will encourage dialogue at all levels of government, civil society and business, to explore where you – as citizen – want the EU to be by 2020 – in terms of rights, policies and governance...
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How to make cities more resilient: a handbook for local government leaders

17 Sep

This handbook provides mayors, governors, councillors and other local government leaders with a generic framework for risk reduction and points to good practices and tools that are already being applied in different cities for that purpose...
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Go Local Campaign

06 Jun

The Campaign Go Local: Towards a Sustainable City aims to encourage Portuguese, Spanish and Bulgarian Municipalities to follow a road of sustainability and support them to be an active voice in Development at a Glocal level. Only then, it will be possible to give an efficient, effective and legitimate answer to the challenges and opportunities with which communities and nations all over the world are faced.

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