“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