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Blog 24 Feb 2021

What would you do? Addressing moral dilemmas and integrity at work with Henk Bruning

How can you tell if you are facing a moral dilemma and how can you deal with it? We interviewed Henk Bruning, renowned international integrity expe...
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Blog 31 Oct 2020

Medellin: leading the way for smart and resilient cities

Often known for its violent past, the second biggest city of Colombia has become a global example of resilience and urban transformation. Over the ...
Ebola must go
Blog 07 Apr 2020

Learning from local responses to an infectious disease in Monrovia

Amid the worldwide Corona-virus outbreak, local governments are facing extreme pressures to protect their residents and to develop a local response...
Disaster preparedness
Blog 19 Mar 2020

Disaster Preparedness: a local governance imperative

By Job van der Poel, Programme Manager and Trainer at The Hague Academy Socio-natural disasters and risks have been a threat to human life for cent...
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Blog 19 Nov 2019

From reception to integration: Bogota’s response to Venezuelan migration crisis  

The world is currently witnessing high levels of human displacement. Local governments are at the forefront of the response to the large numbers of...
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Blog 25 Jul 2019

How to govern and sustain peace in Mindanao, The Philippines?

Following the Philippine peace agreement of 2014, the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region was created with the aim to end the struggle for independenc...
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Blog 28 Feb 2019

How to Systematically Improve Gender Equality in Your Organisation

This post was originally published in 2015. Do you want to become a more efficient organisation or institution? Then consider more sufficient effor...
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Blog 15 May 2018

7 Conditions for Successful Citizen Participation

Inclusive citizen participation in public affairs is not a new concept. Many countries have wide-ranging initiatives that promote citizen involveme...
Wind Farms – climate
Blog 07 Jun 2017

Expert Q&A: Climate Change Resilience and Financing Solutions for Local Authorities

In 2009, the Copenhagen climate summit gathered industrialised nations to commit to giving more than 100 million dollars to address concerns of cli...

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