This edition focuses in particular on the regulation, management and financing of decentralized social sector services in South-East Europe. The report provides a comparative overview and then a detailed analysis of the local government responsibilities in education, social care and protection and public health in South-East Europe, how they are regulated, managed and financed for all South-East European economies.

PLATFORMA and NALAS, present the first Decentralised Cooperation Handbook, compiled through a coordinated effort of a core group of coalition partners. The DC Handbook is a joint effort to provide a source of concrete examples on European local and regional governments’ international action with partners abroad and allows insights on the diversity of territories and partnerships.

NALAS has published the Decentralisation and Local Public Administration Reform in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: Learning from the past – preparing for the future and Status Reports on the Progress of Decentralisation Reform in in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The studies aim to consolidate lessons learned over three decades of reform and help the local government associations prepare for the reform next steps in their countries.

This “pocket size” practical booklet includes quantitative information allowing readers to quickly get an insight about local finance status and development in South-East Europe.

SEE local governments have been and will certainly remain at the forefront in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic social and economic crisis. Their challenges need to be listened to and understood, and they must be supported to address these challenges in the most effective and efficient manner.

This Guide will give you an overview of the necessary steps that you need to perform to establish and run a Training Centre with a portfolio of high-quality capacity development services.

Are you interested in solid waste management? Looking to find out more about the quantity of waste generated and where it ends? NALAS' latest report "Benchmarking on Solid Waste Management in South-East Europe" might have the answers.

This is the first edition of the NALAS Statistical Brief which is an ongoing effort of NALAS’ Fiscal Decentralisation Task Force to provide policy–makers and analysts with timely, accurate, relevant, reliable and comparable data on local government finance in South–East Europe.

The Roadmap to Sustainable Urban Mobility in South-East European Countries is a guiding technical document, developed by the Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE) of the German development organization GIZ, in cooperation with partner cities and municipal associations from South-East Europe (SEE).

The Handbook helps municipal practitioners improve their knowledge and understanding of the relevance of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at local level, raising their capacities to promote SDGs and sensitise other stakeholders.