Name: Europe & Central Asia Regional Working Group Meeting – April 2026
Start: 2026-04-28T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-28T11:30:00-04:00
Location: Virtual Event (Online)

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Rethinking the Future of Decentralization and Multilevel Governance

The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) in partnership with a strong coalition of partners – including the Forum of Federations, NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of [...]
Community

LPSA convenes in New York to shape its strategic direction

Yesterday, Wednesday, February 25, 2026, the Board of Directors, Global Secretariat, and Advisory Board of the Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) met in person for [...]
Decentralization

Reimagining democracy from the ground up

In their newly-published open access volume, Citizen Participation in Local Governance: An Urban–Rural Perspective (Springer, 2026), Karl Kössler and Eva Schläppi bring together insights from [...]
Cities and urban development

Local public finances and the SDGs: How are European cities rewiring budgeting for a sustainable future?

As the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approaches, the global community faces a sobering reality: only 18% of targets are currently on [...]
Asia

How India’s Sixteenth Finance Commission chose stability over disruption

The Finance Commission of India (FC) is one of India’s most credible institutions. It is a constitutional body whose function is to make recommendations to [...]

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