During the Congress of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) in Nikosia, an informative session on Lobbying national & EU institutions: raising your game was organised by the NALAS partner, the Austrian Center for Public Administration Research (KDZ).

On 25 April, NALAS Network of EU Officers gathered and discussed the immediate tasks in accordance with the approved NALAS EU Integration Roadmap. The group shared the latest updates on EU integration progress in their associations, as well as the latest achievements in following the NALAS EU Integration Roadmap.

The Report identifies and analyses quantitative and qualitative SWM indicators, covering SWM aspects such as waste generation, service coverage, extent to which municipal solid waste is recovered/recycled, efficiency in relation to landfilling targets, etc.

This is the fifth edition of the report prepared by the NALAS Fiscal Decentralization Task Force, as an ongoing effort to provide policy-makers and analysts with reliable comparative data on municipal finances and intergovernmental fiscal relations in South-East Europe.

Over one hundred representatives of local governments and local government associations from SEE met in Prishtina on 14 and 15 April 2016 for the XI NALAS General Assembly and a thematic session on Increasing Municipal Investment Capacities in SEE.

Local, regional, national and international institutions/organizations are requested to join forces and cooperate to foster stability, peace and well-being.

Over 80 participants from SEE, representing national and local authorities, as well as international donors met in Skopje on 17 March 2016 at the International Conference “Acting together in Migration Management-Enhancing Coordination among Local and Central Level” organized by NALAS and MARRI.

Some fifteen urban planners and urban development experts from SEE gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 10-11 March 2016 to discuss contemporary urban development challenges in SEE and explore citizens' participation in the urban planning process.

The Second Dialogue Platform organized within the project “Solid Waste Management in cross-border rural and coastal areas of South Eastern European region”, takes place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 9 and 10 March 2016.

Six NALAS member LGAs from Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo presented their achievements that improved the energy efficiency in a number of municipalities in each country.