Mayors & Cities is a magazine dedicated to exploring cities, their leaders, residents and businesses. Readers and subscribers include governors, mayors, county executives, city and county council members, state legislators, officials within state and local government departments as well as those holding professional government positions such as attorneys and educators. The magazine includes interviews, information on conferences, events, photos, videos and features various topics.

URL for additional information:
http://www.mayorsandcities.com/Home.html

Category: Environmental Issues, Land Use Planning, Municipal Property Management and Privatization, Municipal Service Provision, Procurement, Public Works and Utilities, Social Services, Transportation, Urbanization,

The core of the NISPAcee activities is to promote the development of public administration disciplines and training programmes in post-Communist countries. This means increasing the quality of instruction and research and assisting in school/institute development on international, regional and national levels.

URL for additional information:
http://www.nispa.sk/_portal/homepage.php

Category: European Integration, International Partnerships and Programs, Training,

CEMR works to promote a united Europe that is based on local and regional self government and democracy. To achieve this goal it endeavours to shape the future of Europe by enhancing the local and regional contribution, to influence European law and policy, to exchange experience at local and regional level and to cooperate with partners in other parts of the world.

URL for additional information:
http://www.ccre.org/

Category: Associations of local authorities and professional associations, European Integration, International Partnerships and Programs,

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our mission is to fight poverty with passion and professionalism for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors.

URL for additional information:
http://www.worldbank.org/

Category: Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments, International Partnerships and Programs, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes,

The Civil Society Forum took place in Bratislava, on Septeber 16-18, 2009, engaging 250 people, with the parallel Social Innovation Camp CEE bringing another 70 from the CEE region and beyond. The organizers collected all relevant conference materials on a website, including written and visual materials produced, pieces of the live reporting from the Forum in Bratislava, some of the background research as well as the best submissions for the civil society contest.

URL for additional information:
http://csf.ceetrust.org/

Category: Citizen Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations,

The Governance Assessment Portal is funded and managed through the global window of the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments, and aims to be a hub of information and a valuable entry-point on democratic governance assessments

URL for additional information:
http://www.gaportal.org/

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes, Management Methods and Tools,

Eldis is a website aiming to share the best in development, policy, practice and research with topics organized into two formats - Resource Guides and Dossiers. The Governance assessments dossier offers publications that are available online, free of charge, and produced by experts, institutions and organizations that work in the field of governance assessments.

URL for additional information:
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/dossiers/governance-assessments

Category: Citizen Education,

The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilization and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education. The cornerstone of the Project is this wide-reaching website on education rights. The site provides information on a wide range of topics, including and overview of the right to education, violations, excluded and vulnerable groups, education financing, social mobilization and legal route, at the local and national level, some at the regional and international level. In addition, the country database is a unique resource documenting the constitutional protection (or lack of) of the right to education in all 192 countries.

URL for additional information:
http://www.right-to-education.org/

Category: Education,

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) launched the fourth of its gateway guides, designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to a number of governance and social development topics. Besides the new collection GSDRC previously developed similar sites for Decentralization and local governance and Public financial management and accountability.

URL for additional information:
http://www.gsdrc.org/go/gateway-guides/anti-corruption

Category: Citizen Education,

The Partnership's aim is to promote democracy and good governance; strengthen energy security; promote sector reform and environment protection; encourage people to people contacts; support economic and social development; offer additional funding for projects to reduce socio-economic imbalances and increase stability in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.

URL for additional information:
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/eastern/index_en.htm

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments, European Integration, International Partnerships and Programs, Municipal Service Provision,