News
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NALAS raises the voice for SEE local governments at the Meeting on Donor Coordination in the Western Balkans 20.03.2017
“As the European Commission is not supporting Public Administration Reform at local level, and this is a donor coordination meeting, NALAS invites other donors to fill in the gap”
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Report: Benchmarking on Solid Waste Management in South-East Europe 2015 21.02.2017
The Report gives insight in the current situation with solid waste management at the national and local level in the SEE countries. It also assesses the progress towards the establishment of an integrated solid waste management system compared to the baseline year of 2014.
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NALAS continues lobbying at EU for positioning SEE local governments 03.02.2017
The low priority of the Western Balkans on the EU Commission's agenda, the absence of a technical unit within DG NEAR to be addressed to by LGAs, the scarce attention being given to LGAs in national IPA programming as well as consultation in the frame of the enlargement process are the most burning issues.
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The project Towards SEE Regional Decentalisation Observatory is approaching its closure 29.12.2016
The project resulted in Concept and Methodology that provides directions on putting in place conditions for informed decision making towards establishment of a SEE Decentralisation Observatory.
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A visioning conference discusses the perspectives of South-East Europe local governments 15.12.2016
"The level of decentralisation, accompanied by adequate resources remains the main challenge for local governments in South-East Europe”, said in his opening speech Mayor Aleksandar Bogdanovic, President of the Union of Municipalities of Montenegro.
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A regional training in Management of Communal Services brings together Mayors and Directors of PUCs 14.12.2016
The training covered the topics: Water policy, legal and institutional framework for WSS; Organisation of communal water services at the local level; Financial and operational performance improvement programme; Key areas of improvement: public service agreements and tariff policy; and Tools for effective management, key performance indicators and benchmarking.
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Call for participants for a Regional Training in Efficient Organisation and Effective Management of Communal Services 09.11.2016
The Regional Training is designed for teams of Mayors and Directors of Public Utility Companies from: Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
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NALAS and the World Bank facilitate dialogue of SEE Ministries of Finance and Local Government Associations 25.10.2016
At the City to City Dialogue NALAS facilitated a roundtable of Ministries of Finance and LGAs titled “Collaborative National and Regional Dialogues for Improving the Intergovernmental Finance Systems in South East Europe”.
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Regional Decentralisation Observatory: a vision to materialise 12.10.2016
Is SEE Decentralisation Observatory needed? What functions should it perform? What areas should it cover? What kind of data to collect? How to use the data collected?
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Ljubljana is the Top Global Green Destination, 5 other destinations from South East Europe among Top 100! 28.09.2016
On the occasion of the World Tourism Day, the Global Green Destinations Day conference took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana was pronounced the Top Sustainable Destination in the world, followed by: Drnis, Pula, Mali Losinj, Gorski Kotar, Island Krk, and Delnice.