“EXPERTISE, EXPERIENCE AND EXCHANGE IS WHAT MAKES OUR PROGRAMMES UNIQUE.” Pauline Krikke Mayor of The Hague
“In the past ten years, The Hague Academy has been contributing to the mission of the City of The Hague, promoting peace, justice and stability in the world, and in a way which is concrete and practical.”
The Hague Academy for Local Governance “LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN FOSTER PEACE BY INCREASING SOCIAL COHESION Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.”
Secretary General of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Africa As Secretary General of UCLG Africa it is are the government layer closest to the my pleasure to present the new brochure people, they need to work together with of The Hague Academy for Local their citizens and other stakeholers in the Governance on the occasion of its 10th community. anniversary. Local governments in Africa and other In the past ten years, local governments parts of the world, are increasingly have been increasingly recognised asking for the knowledge and skills for their role in tackling local as well needed to deal with the complexity of as national and global challenges. the challenges at local level. The Hague Local governments can foster peace Academy offers a great opportunity by increasing social cohesion in their to strengthen these skills and at the communities. They can take initiatives same time meet and learn from fellow for adapting to climate change and practitioners, both from government, building community resilience. civil society and donor organisations.
Local governments can stimulate the I congratulate the Academy with their economy by creating and unlocking the anniversary and warmly invite you to potential of territories. They can ensure take a closer look at the programmes that development does not only benefit they offer. the elite but also ordinary citizens and marginalised groups. And since they
4 The Hague Academy for Local Governance OUR MISSION
In a world of increasing decentralisation and urbanisation, local governments and their citizens play a crucial role in realising the global development goals. It is our vision that a strong local democracy, in which governments and citizens Beneficiaries work constructively together, has a significant The Hague Academy specialises in practice-oriented training impact on stability, quality of services and socio- programmes designed for elected representatives, NGOs, com- economic development. munity members, and professionals at donor and development organisations. Through these programmes, we aspire to help Through our programmes we aim to promote develop their knowledge and skills to jointly promote inclusive practices of governance that are: and sustainable development at the local level. • participatory & responsive • accountable & transparent Approach • equitable & inclusive Expertise, Experience & Exchange make our training • effective & efficient programmes unique. We combine theory and practice through • respecting the rule of law & human rights expert dialogue, interactive simulations and engaging study visits. By doing this, we aim to create awareness, inspire and enhance reflection that leads to results-oriented action for the participant’s work back home. The Academy also arranges follow up activities and provides coaching to facilitate implementation, and thus increase the impact of our trainings.
Innovation The Hague Academy for Local Governance was rated the second most innovative start-up by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2008. Since then, we have continued to invest in new tools, trends and topics that matter to local governments, “We believe that real citizens and development practitioners worldwide. development starts at a local level.”
6 The Hague Academy for Local Governance OUR TRAINING Open Registration Courses PROGRAMMES The Hague Academy organises 10+ open courses each year. These courses offer participants an opportunity to The Hague Academy supports local democracy meet and exchange ideas with fellow professionals and by organising short and multi-annual tailor-made experts. Participants receive state-of-the-art knowledge in training projects, open registration courses and a presentations from international experts and visit concrete scholarship programme for young, talented local examples throughout the Netherlands. For some courses, government employees. eligible applicants may apply for Nuffic Scholarships. An overview of our open courses and scholarship opportunities is regularly updated on our website. Projects We offer the following training modalities: Talent for Governance • Multi-annual action learning Talent for Governance is The Hague Academy’s own • Short courses or exposure visits scholarship programme. The programme supports young, • Training-of-trainer ambitious local government practitioners in three ways: • Online learning a training course in the Netherlands, an internship in a • Capacity building of training institutes Dutch municipality, and access to a global network of local • Coaching and refresher courses government professionals. Throughout the three-week programme, selected Talents are required to design a back Taking into account a thorough needs-analysis, The Hague home action plan that they will implement upon their Academy can design programmes that suit your local context, return home. The plan is carried out with support from knowledge level, and training goals. Beneficiaries vary from their employer, The Hague Academy, and their internship national and local government officials to community leaders, municipality. security actors, civil society organisations, youth, training institutes, and staff of donor and development agencies.
We offer training in English, French and Arabic and we work with local experts who communicate in the language of the participants. Activities are organised both in the Netherlands and in target countries.
Participants from our Citizen Participation and Inclusive Governance course.
8 The Hague Academy for Local Governance OUR IMPACT
The Academy’s network of participants includes Our donors and clients include: practitioners from around the world. • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands • GIZ We have From • World Bank • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 200 25 • European Commission experts in different • UN Habitat our network countires
Our partners include: • VNG International Among which: 11% • Center for Innovative Local Governance (CILG), Tunisia Europe and eastern • UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) neighbours Jamie Boex (Fiscal Decentralisation) • CARE Netherlands Aladeen Shawa (Local Economic Development) In total • Association for Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA) we trained • Universities of Leiden and Delft Ghada Zeidan (Development, Gender and Participation) 4320 35% Irma Specht (Post-Conflict and Social and Economic Development) people 2% MENA Region The Americas Ruth Rennie (Local Economic Development) (2013-2018) 10% Alfonso Garcia Salaues (Local Governance and Rural Asia National governments 33% Development) 42% Regional / Local governments Sundus Balata (Gender Responsive Governance) From: Africa 23% Our participants Jenifer Bukhoke (Local Development Finance) Research / training institutes 91 represent: 5% David Jackson (Inclusive Service Delivery & the SDGs) Eiman Karar (Water Governance) different NGOs / CSOs countries 27% Ana Vasilache (Integrity and Anti-corruption) 12% Donor & development organisations Fakri Karim (Climate Resilience)
10 The Hague Academy for Local Governance EXPERTISE
Our international network of trainers and experts combine the latest insights and interdisciplinary knowledge in a wide variety of fields related to Inclusive Local Service Delivery Smart local governance. Human Rights Decentralisation & & Resilient Cities & the Rule of Law & the SDGs Inter-administrative Relations Use smart data for innovative Promote access to justice, Increase the quality of and access Enhance eective cooperation between solutions to urban issues and protect minorities to services for all citizens dierent levels of government Migration & Cities and vulnerable groups Fiscal Decentralisation Develop strategies to deal with the positive & Local Finance and negative impact of migration in cities Increase local financial capacities by fiscal arrangements and local revenue generation
Lobby & Advocacy Gender Responsive Increase capacities to inuence decision making Governance Work on gender mainstreaming and participation OUR EX PERTISE of women in local policies and service delivery Local Economic Development Leadership & Develop a LED-strategy and improve Municipal Management conditions for entrepreneurship and job creation Improve skills to create a shared vision, communicate with stakeholders and manage the municipal organisation Multilevel Social Aairs & Employment Learn how economic growth can go hand Water Governance in hand with social security reforms Create financial, legal and administrative conditions for eective cooperation in the water sector Subnational Conict Citizen Participation Disaster Management Integrity & Peacebuilding Work on conict prevention & Inclusive Governance & Climate Resilience & Anti-corruption and social cohesion Include voices of all citizens Build climate resilience and improve local Promote integrity, transparency and anti-corruption between dierent groups in society in the policy process response mechanisms of local authorities measures of government institutions
12 The Hague Academy for Local Governance EXPERIENCE The Academy has convened over 190 study visits Our programmes bring in the experiences from to organisations in the Netherlands and abroad. international and local practitioners. Participants These study visits include: visit local projects, government institutions and initiatives led by civil society and the private sector. • Amsterdam Integrity Bureau These visits combined with innovative exercises • Amsterdam Economic Board offer a chance to experience governance from a • Court of Audit of The Netherlands local perspective. • Dutch Water Authorities and the Room for the River project • European Commission • EVA Lanxmeer Ecological Neighbourhood in Culemborg • Father Centre The Hague (gender equality project) • Genesis Farm, Municipality of Bishoftu (Ethiopia) • Greenport Aalsmeer World Centre for Horticulture • International Criminal Court • IRADO Waste Management Facility • Local economic development projects (Jordan,
Waste management facility in Schiedam. Local economic development at the tech incubator, Yes!Delft. Palestine) • Local Communities Support and Loan Fund (Tunis) • Maeslantkering Storm Surge Barrier “We encourage participants • Ministries of Interior and Labour (Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia) • Municipal Ombudsman of The Hague to ask questions and reflect • Netherlands’ House for Democracy and the Rule of Law • Public Prosecutor’s Office on their own experiences so • Radio Netherlands Training Institute • Regional Police Haaglanden they can return home feeling • World of Westland, International knowledge centre in glasshouse horticulture inspired and empowered with • Yes!Delft, business and tech incubator many new ideas.”
14 The Hague Academy for Local Governance EXCHANGE
Our course participants are practitioners from around the world. This offers a unique opportunity to discuss challenges and solutions with colleagues from other countries. Our open registration courses, programmes for the MENA-region and Eastern Europe and in-country programmes all provide a chance for participants to exchange practices and learn from each other’s experiences. Improving the capacity for service delivery for refugees in Lebanon. Our online learning network facilitates an exchange of knowledge and experiences long after the training has ended. Here, our alumni report on the results of their action plans, share interesting documents and give each other feedback and support.
Panel debate at the 10th Anniversary Empowering Libyan women in the conference in April 2018 diaspora.
Discussing community empowerment strategies to combat corruption in Indonesia.
16 The Hague Academy for Local Governance “I AM GRATEFUL TO THE ACADEMY FOR “THE NEW GOAL IS TO HAVE HUNDREDS HELPING RAISE MY AWARENESS AND OF MORE PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS” OUR DISCUSSION” AHMED MILKAH MAHROUS “The Academy equipped me with the sessions on change management “For me, this course has been very supervisor, these lessons will surely be NYAMBURA KHODAIR the knowledge, tools and attitude to and behavioural change through the practical especially in terms of knowing used in the coming weeks and months. RIGHA transform my career and become a idea of group pressure both helped what other participants have actually For example, we will broaden public Lecturer at the University of Sadat City, professional trainer in my home country me understand how to better spread a done but also seeing what actions participation to encourage more Public participation coordinator at the Cairo, Egypt of Egypt. In my work, I focus on curbing culture of integrity in a local community. have been taken in the Netherlands. involvement from the community. County Government of Taita Taveta, Kenya corruption and delivering training courses I am grateful to the Academy for helping In fact, in our last session we talked about Because now, the new goal is to have Integrity and Anti-corruption to civil servants from several government raise my awareness and communication the right conditions for successful hundreds of more people participate Citizen Participation and ministries, including the Ministry of skills, and as a result, the awareness and participation. This exchange really opened in our discussions about improving local Inclusive Governance Finance and the Ministry of Youth and communication skills of my trainees and my eyes to the better ways of effectively legislation” Sports. During the Academy’s training, colleagues.” involving citizens. With support from my
18 The Hague Academy for Local Governance “I CAME TO UNDERSTAND THE REAL “TOGETHER, WE ADDRESSED A WIDE CONCEPTS OF PARTICIPATORY RANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES AND GOVERNANCE” CURRENT DEBATES ON PEACEBUILDING” IDFI SASCHA SEPTIANI KUHN “In Indonesia we still have to empower participation ladder and the stakeholder “One of the great features of this not only once at the onset of a project. Head of Sub-district Kelurahan in the city the citizens, even to do small things such analysis matrix. In only two weeks, I summercourse was that it allowed I also liked the three-tracks approach Deputy Team Leader and Adviser with government of Samarinda, Indonesia as attend public meetings and to feel came to understand the concepts of for substantial exchange with fellow on peacebuilding, recovery, and U_LEAD Project for GIZ-Ukraine confident enough to share their opinion. participatory governance, including participants who brought in extensive development that gives good guidance Citizen Participation and This course helped me gain insights the participation ladder and applying professional knowledge and experience when tricky decisions on target groups Summercourse: Sustaining Inclusive Governance and clarity on the concepts of inclusive the stakeholder analysis matrix. My from around the world. Together, we and types of activities need to be made. Peace and Local Governance governance to help my community. The previous semester-long course on citizen addressed a wide range of paradigms, Altogether, the curriculum and expert highlight for me was our discussion about participation never addressed these real- good practices and current debates on exchange, along with the diverse group the conditions that encourage successful life situations the way this course did.” peacebuilding. As someone responsible of participants made the summercourse participation. I also remember the for the design and implementation of a very useful experience.” a range of activities on local economic development and municipal service provision across Ukraine, I returned to the country with a useful toolbox from which I can choose and apply based on my actual needs. I was reminded that a solid analysis of the political economy should be a key element of any planning process, not only in fragile contexts, and
20 The Hague Academy for Local Governance Cecile Meijs
“Our work is inspired by three reasons. The first is people’s rights to basic services, security, a decent job and freedom to participate in civil society and politics. The second is building responsive, inclusive and capable institutions that are able to guarantee these rights. And third is empowering citizens to work jointly with the Colophon authorities on the sustainable development of their Text communities.” The Hague Academy for local Governance
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