News

Financial Challenges for the Government of Sikkim India

“This training helped us to realise our strengths and weaknesses. It gave us tools to improve management of finances and resources”.

13 October 2016

Talent for Governance programme 2016

Five talented civil servants participate this fall in our Talent programmes on local economic development and local service delivery.

10 October 2016

‘Without inclusive leadership, the rule of law cannot be implemented in Iraq.’

Project manager Kamaran Mohamad Palani at the Al-Mesalla Human Resources Development Centre in Erbil, Kurdistan is satisfied with how he has been able to implement […]

A Mobile Approach to Support Refugees

One of our staff, Dayana al Alam, co-authored a publication on the experiences in Lebanon with a mobile approach to service delivery for refugee women and girls.

Learning from practices in smart city development

Concepts, state of the art technology, and practical applications in the field of smart city concepts, is what the staff of Technical Institute Bandung (ITB) and associated governmental representatives learned the last three weeks.

30 September 2016

Peacebuilding in Burundi from a gender perspective

Our Programme Manager Freddy Sahinguvu just returned from Burundi where he facilitated a training on gender in violent conflict and peacebuilding. Given the fact that Burundi is in the process of peace talks, this is currently a very relevant topic.

05 September 2016

Getting started with the SDGs in cities

The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UNSDSN) has recently launched the report “Getting started with the SDGs in cities”, a guide for stakeholders. This […]

19 August 2016

Fragility, Decentralisation and Local Governance

In November 2015, The Hague Academy organised a three-day learning event on fragility, decentralisation and local governance for around 40 participants of different donor agencies. The course […]

05 July 2016

Decentralisation for EU-accession countries

In the period of 2012 to 2015, The Hague Academy was responsible for the design, delivery and monitoring and evaluation of 4 eight-day training courses […]

Integrity of Civil Servants for EU-accession countries

In the period of 2012 to 2015, The Hague Academy was responsible for the design, delivery and monitoring and evaluation of 4 eight-day training courses […]

Localising SDGs: Involving all Local Actors in Service Delivery

In the recent UNDP-publication “An Integrated Framework to support Local Governance and Local Development”, you can read that localising development should not be seen as […]

21 June 2016

Peace Clubs: Responding to fragility from the bottom up

Join us at the European Development Days on the 16th of June 2016 in Brussels to discuss how community-level Peace Clubs can contribute to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in Burundi.

09 June 2016

Increasing Integrity in Serbia and Local Security in Albania

Last month government representatives from Albania and from Serbia visited The Netherlands to learn more about policies and practices for integrity of civil servants and the Dutch security triangle. […]

27 May 2016