“Practice talking: EU project development guide for local governments – dos and don’ts” is designed to support local governments to enhance their EU projects absorption capacities. You will learn about identifying funding opportunities, project preparation, implementation and reporting, but above all, you will receive practical,…

Equality, fight against discrimination and inclusion of vulnerable groups constitute an important part of the negotiations in the EU accession process. The South-East Europe region faces vast socio-economic challenges, while the economic consolidation is slow and only reaches part of the population. Those suffering the…

This guide attempts to provide an answer to the question of how to mainstream gender in the waste management process in all its key phases. It is mainly intended at guiding the municipal administration (mayor, municipal administration, public utility companies’ management, and administration, etc.) step…

This Compendium of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) Best Practices documents GRB best practices identified against the gender equality objectives set in the European Charter for Equality of women and men in local life.The Best Practices are identified following a Methodology that strives to detect explicit…

This is the eighth edition of the Report which is an ongoing effort of NALAS’ Fiscal Decentralisation Task Force to provide policymakers and analysts with reliable comparative data on municipal finances and up to date information on intergovernmental fiscal relations in South–East Europe. This edition…

PLATFORMA, the pan-European coalition of towns and regions, and their associations active in city-to-city and region-to-region development cooperation and NALAS, present the first Decentralised Cooperation Handbook, compiled through a coordinated effort of a core group of coalition partners. The present Handbook on Decentralised Cooperation was…