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Another line of support activities will comprise a number of inter-regional events and workshops on issues and challenges of interest to all CIUDAD grant projects. These events will address the themes of decentralised cooperation, promotion of the concept of good local governance and interaction of local and regional authorities with civil society stakeholder and actors.
With the present status of preparation and programme implementation, the following thematic clusters are envisaged:
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process-oriented themes like public participation in urban development planning, inte-grated planning tools, gender mainstreaming, ”customer” orientation of local gov-ernment/administration, etc.;
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content-related themes like environmental, economic and social sustainability;
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policy-related themes like legal, institutional and financial frameworks, alignment with national and/or EU policies, financing and funding sources, etc.
Further issues to be taken on by these broader networking events may emerge from the further process of grant projects' implementation, e.g. with regard to the interaction between local authorities and NGOs, the importance of political and legal framework conditions, etc.
 The first of these broader networking events was the general kick-off of the CIUDAD programme that was held in June 2010 in conjunction with the closing conference of the CIUDAD predecessor programme MED-PACT.
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Representatives from over one hundred Lebanese local authorities, the EU Delegation to Lebanon, the European Commission - DG Development and Cooperation and the CIUDAD programme met on March 20 in Beirut and discussed on local governance, decentralized cooperation, EU support to LAs and on the lessons learnt from past projects/initiatives involving Lebanese local authorities. > Read More
 Seven of the twenty-one projects funded by the EU under the CIUDAD programme have now reached completion. The remaining projects, and the programme itself, will finish by the end of 2013. The inter-regional event, organised by CIUDAD in Tunis from 20-22 November, has been an opportunity for the Local Authorities to learn from the experiences of finalised projects and to consider the impact in local communities of all CIUDAD projects.
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