The team at NALAS wishes you peace, joy and prosperity throughout the coming year. Thank you for your continued support and partnership. We look forward to working with you in the years to come.

The second working meeting of the Regional Working Group on Solid Waste Management “Business cases development for improved waste collection and valorisation” took place in Skopje, Macedonia, on 6 December 2018.

As part of the capacity development measures aimed to strengthen the partner LGAs and APUCs of RCDN, a training in Monitoring and Evaluation was organised in Bijeljina, on 4 and 5 December 2018.

NALAS presented its online platform for learning, the NALAS E- Academy, as well as the course in Introduction to Gender Mainstreaming at local level.

The fourth workshop on NALAS’ Regional Decentralisation Observatory (RDO) was opened today in Skopje, Macedonia. This workshop is finalising the methodology for the RDO and is testing it among the 12 NALAS countries.

The training in Association Needs Assessment was organised in Belgrade, Serbia on 1 and 2 November 2018, for the RCDN Focal Points in the partner LGAs and APUCs.

The meeting focused on presentation and exchange on the progress and challenges in the piloting process in 13 pilot municipalities from Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In early November, NALAS is starting a new delivery of three e-learning courses within NALAS e-Academy.

The annual gathering of European regions and cities started today, 8 October 2018 at 14:30 in the Square Convention Centre in Brussels.

19 participants, representing the partner Associations of the Regional Capacity Development Network (RCDN) for water and sanitation services, took part in the second Training Management Cycle (TMC) training that takes place from 2-5 October 2018 in Budva, Montenegro.