UTN (Urban Technology Network) is a trans-European city co-operation project. It is embraced by the European Union´s INTERREG II C CADSES programme, which targets to initiate co-operation in the field of spatial development in the Central, Adriatic, Danubian and South-Eastern European Space (CADSES). They provide information about coming events, projects and info packages.

URL for additional information:
http://www.utn.at

Category: Information Systems and Technology,

UNPAN is an online public sector policy and management information and knowledge network. Their mission is to promote the sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices throughout the world in sound public policies, effective public administration and efficient civil services, through capacity-building and cooperation with emphasis on south-south cooperation. They provide online information, training, advisory, conference and directory services.

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

Category: Information Systems and Technology, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes,

MOST Clearing House a programme of UNESCO is using the UNCHS Best Practices Database to promote Best Practices Experiences in the field of Social Development. The Practices include solutions coming from Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Romania), Best Practices of The City of Vienna and all other parts of the world.
To know more about the aims of MOST Clearinghouse: http://www.unesco.org/most/bpunchs.htm

URL for additional information:
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3511&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=2

Category: Social Services,

This guide (http://www3.iclei.org/egpis) provides services to benefit urban environment professionals, city managers and elected representatives: Thematic access to policy strategies with many concrete examples; Good practice examples of projects from local authorities throughout Europe; European policy documents on sustainability and the urban environment.

URL for additional information:
http://www3.iclei.org/

Category: Environmental Issues,

DEC is a global resource for development experience. Their site provides access to USAID-funded publications for the international development community. The database consists of over 90 000 documents. Over 8,000 USAID reports are available for download (Oct 2001).

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

Category: Citizen Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Culture, Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments, Education, Environmental Issues, European Integration, Healthcare, Information Systems and Technology, International Partnerships and Programs, Land Use Planning, Legislation, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes, Management Methods and Tools, Municipal Property Management and Privatization, Municipal Service Provision, Procurement, Public Works and Utilities, Social Services, Transportation, Urbanization, Youth Activities,

This is the website of the Local Government Support Program Central Europe (LGSP-CE), a joint regional program carried out in the Visegrad countries by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) with the cooperation of the International Center for Sustainable Cities (ICSC) and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) The goal of this program is to increase the effectiveness of decentralization reforms by developing the capacity of municipal associations and their member local governments.

URL for additional information:
http://www.canurb.com/programs/int_programs_ceurope_localgovsupport.php

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, International Partnerships and Programs, Management Methods and Tools, Urbanization,

The aim of the database is to promote the development of minority rights standards by providing easily accessible information about the implementation of minority rights for not only experts, public officials, NGO's and minority representatives but also interested researchers and students. The MIRIS database includes the most important legal texts relating to minority rights by concentrating upon relevant national legislation and case-law. The MIRIS is is bilingual (English, local).

URL for additional information:
http://dev.eurac.edu/~search/miris.cgi

Category: Legislation,

EIPA provides civil servants and other interested parties with training courses of a European character relating to public administration in the European Union. On the website, visitors can access the complete texts of its working papers free of charge, the results of research activities, a list of current and forthcoming publications, and the catalogue of their library.

URL for additional information:
http://www.eipa.nl

Category: Management Methods and Tools,

Local Development Group is an association of professionals and companies committed to enhance the administrative and community performances in order to support economic and social development.

URL for additional information:
http://www.gdl.ro

Category: Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments,

FPDL mission is to enhance the democratic processes of governance, the civil society development, the promotion of a new culture of change and conflict management. In Romania and other countries, through Capacity Building Activities targeting Public Administration and NGOs representatives in order to be more effective, efficient and accountable, as well as to work better together.

URL for additional information:
http://www.fpdl.ro

Category: International Partnerships and Programs,