Dear colleagues and friends, We express our gratitude to all you have done so far to respond to our appeal for solidarity support within NALAS Network

Dear colleagues and friends, This is an appeal for solidarity support within NALAS Network

The first National Stakeholder Workshop within the project “Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE” was held on 28 March 2014 in Skopje, attended by 23 representatives of relevant institutions such as the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, Bureau for Regional Development, Spatial Planning Agency, Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, municipalities, ZELS, Institute of Geography, Cultural Heritage Protection Office, Ministry of Local Self-government, UNDP and local CSOs. The aim of the project “Assessing Territorial Attractiveness in SEE” is to establish a framework concept as well as tools useful for policy makers to enhance the quality of development decisions

A kick-off meeting, organized on 25 March 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia launched the new NALAS project "Asset management for water and sanitation sector in South-East Europe", implemented in partnership with the Open Regional Funds, Modernization of Municipal Services (ORF-MMS). The kick-off meeting brought together NALAS member LGAs involved in the project, as well as representatives of the International Association of Water Supply Companies (IAWD) and the World Bank Danube Water Program, ORF MMS and SDC, to discuss the project action plan and the key challenges ahead

From 24-26 November 2014, in Brussels, NALAS co-organized a seminar on Gender Equality and Human Rights of LGBTI Persons

The newest NALAS Task Force, focused on Sustainable Tourism, met from 11-12 November 2014 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to discuss key challenges and solutions of tourism in South-East Europe

Series of events, organized from 28 until 30 October 2014 in Vienna, Austria, provided an opportunity for NALAS to present its work and enhance the cooperation with public utilities from South-East Europe and their representative Associations

The Danube Water Program is NALAS' partner that works with regional, national, and local stakeholders to promote an informed policy dialogue around the core challenges facing the sector and to strengthen the technical and managerial capacity of the sector’s utilities and institutions – in a nutshell, smart policies, strong utilities, sustainable services. To learn more about the program, check the brochure below, which describes the Program and its activities, shares some early results of collaboration, presents findings and lessons derived from those activities, and describes its longer-term vision

The new edition of NALAS Newsletter is here!

The video from NALAS First Summer School on Local Governance and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations is now available HERE. The Summer School was organized from 15 until 18 July 2014, in Ohrid, Macedonia