Best practices

In Vietnam 1 to 1.3 million people added to urban areas each year to 2020. The current urbanization rate of 27% today is expected to increase to 45% in 2020. Municipalities need to find innovative solutions to cope with this challenge in order to balance interests of different stakeholders in this process and to improve its responsiveness and services vis-à-vis its citizens.

In 2005 the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed the “Comprehensive Peace Agreement”. As a result elections will take place on all levels in early April 2010, followed by a referendum on the status of South Sudan in 2011. Therefore national and international training activities are underway for election officials.

The problem of the MLPC, regrettably, is that of the too numerous political parties in Africa: how make live durably the hope this party carries while the next elections risk to be, once again, manipulated and faked?

It is in this context and at the request of the MLPC that the Jean-Jaurès Foundation organizes since December, 2008 training courses to the local persons in charge of the party, to warn them of all the predictable pitfalls on the eve of the presidential and legislative elections of March, 2010.

After the Berlin Wall came down people that used to live behind the Iron Curtain rejected totalitarian communism but did rarely know what kind of society to create. To facilitate the political process towards building a democratic society the Jarl Hjalmarson Foundation commissioned a study guide, encouraging debate on freedom and democracy.

The mind-set of every human being is shaped by its solidarisation process. A large part of the latter takes place in schools. Therefore, the project, which was running from April 2007 to March 2009, aimed at the establishment of educational tools and mechanisms on peace education through 15 schools in Israel, Jordan and Palestine.

The Labour Diploma Course is a one year educational programme for trade union and community activists with a mission to empower workers and their trade unions as well as community based organisations. It aims at enabling them to influence policy making processes in Namibia and South Africa.

Over years now the Political Academy of the Austrian People’s Party organises in cooperation with the Robert Schuman Institute a series of seminars for young politicians from South-Eastern and Eastern Europe. The last two courses in 2008 focused on the topic „Media and Politics”. The topic in 2009 the topic is “City campaign management”.

Training in sign language have been provided for 40 students from 4 different universities in Sofia. The main aim of the course was young people, who studies and future professional occupations will be related to people with disabilities, to be involved in the active participation in the process of creation of hospitable and sustainable environment for people with hearing impairment in order to facilitate their integration in the civic society.

ISTAME-Andreas Papandreou has successfully completed in 2008 an Action Project under the aegis of the Ministry of the Greek Ministry of Employment and Social Protection concerning awareness raising of citizens in regions with social exclusion and environmental problems.

Taking your life in your own hands necessitates capacity building right from the start. In order to achieve self-sustainable living conditions for peasants and craftsmen in the communities of Santiago Atitlán, San Pedro La Laguna, San Juan La Laguna, San Pablo La Laguna, Santa Clara La Laguna and Santa María Visitación a capacity building with and for the Federation of Mayan People and its members was started.