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.

NALAS work in the area of gender mainstreaming at local level in South-East Europe was presented at the regional conference "Promoting the values of gender equality: Civil society for social changes", organised in Skopje, Macedonia, on 28 September 2016.

Through one Generic and five specific ToTs, mentoring and support, NALAS created a pool of 33 trainers in water management and developed a training scheme with high quality standards that now ensures excellence in training providing for LGs and PUCs in SEE.

NALAS, LGAs and local governments are part of the new initiative of the German government - "Municipal Partnerships for Sustainability".

The project "Solid waste management in cross-border rural and coastal areas of South Eastern European region" resulted with several important products.

With the project "Towards SEE Decentralisation Observatory", NALAS aims towards improvement of the application of the Subsidiarity principle in delivery of public services in SEE.

The third edition is bigger than ever, bringing together 60 finance professionals from South-East Europe, and two new partnerships in organising the Summer School.

Based on the new approach of the EC in the enlargement process: Fundamentals first, the conference examines best practices towards achieving the three pillars of rule of law, economic governance and public administration reform.

The Adriatic costal area, Shara mountain region and Tara-Drina-Sava river catchment area benefited from the project "Improvement of Solid Waste Management in Rural and Coastal Areas", implemented by NALAS, SWG and GIZ in the last year.

NALAS invites municipalities and destinations from South East Europe to apply for the competition 2016 Sustainable Destinations Top 100. Deadline: 1 July 2016.