At a time when official development assistance is experiencing an unprecedented decline, decentralized cooperation is a key lever for achieving concrete results on the ground. The new OECD report, titled *The Impact of Decentralized Development Cooperation: Driving Local Governance and the SDGs*, analyzes the contribution of local and regional governments to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

To mark the start of the school year, the Banque Postale du Congo (BPC) distributed school supplies and food on September 27 in Brazzaville to 137 children from various care facilities. The initiative, organized as part of the “Solidarity Caravan” in partnership with the association Synergie de soutien des couches fragiles (2SCF), aims to support vulnerable children and help ensure they can attend school under better conditions.

From September 22 to 25, 2026, Hanoi hosted the second gathering of the second cohort of the Educational Leaders Program, led by the AUF at the Collège international de Villers-Cotterêts. Twenty-two educators from eight countries spent four days there observing educational practices in Vietnam and analyzing how these could benefit their own systems.

Clichy-la-Garenne is supporting the Pink October campaign with a charity event: join us for the big dictation on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at City Hall.

The Confederation plans to increase funding for the integration of foreign nationals. It has allocated 334.5 million francs for the 2028–2032 period, compared with 250 million francs during the previous period.

Just one year after the celebration in Luzy marking the 40th anniversary of the town twinning, members of the two committees—the French and German ones—met in Emmelshausen, Germany, on the weekend of Sunday, August 30, during the traditional wine fair.

The Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) project, which has developed climate-smart varieties of improved millet, cowpea, peanuts, and sorghum, could serve as a model on a national scale, said Bassirou Sine, director of the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) in Bambey, speaking in Thiès.

Évelyne Desmarais chairs ADAMA27, an association of former mayors and deputy mayors from the Eure department. She hopes to revitalize this association, which supports new mayors.

Received by the Executive Director of Apex-Mali, Massoudou Cissé, a delegation from the Association of Private Press Publishers (ASSEP), led by its president, Boubacar Yalkoué, proposed the establishment of a formal framework for collaboration to support the promotion of Mali as a tourist destination.

The Ministry of Family and Social Action (MFAS) received 1,422 Equal Opportunity Cards from the National Agency for Personal Identification (ANIP) for people with disabilities. A symbolic handover ceremony took place on Friday, September 18, 2026, at the Cité ministérielle in Cotonou, marking a new milestone in the distribution process underway across the country. With this new batch, a total of 6,140 cards have now been received, of which 4,718 were already distributed between 2024 and 2025.

The partnership agreement signed on September 11 in Brazzaville between the Women’s Advisory Council (CCF) and the Hoz Fablab training center for new technologies will provide Congolese female students with training in digital careers.

In Togo, the government’s goal of achieving universal access to safe drinking water by 2030 has taken a new step forward with the commissioning of 305 boreholes equipped with hand-pump systems in the Plateaux region. These boreholes, constructed as part of the “Village Water Supply Project for 300 Boreholes,” with Chinese funding, were handed over to the beneficiaries on Friday, September 18, 2026, in a symbolic ceremony held in Abalo Copé, in the Wahala canton of Haho Prefecture.

The Potigny-Banwell (Somerset) sister city committee has been in existence for more than twenty-five years. Martine Hébert-Lefèvre, the committee’s president, held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the committee’s upcoming activities, including English classes.

The new university campus in Taroudant, which is part of Ibn Zohr University, is a major academic and strategic project aimed at enriching the university’s offerings and expanding the range of educational opportunities available to students. This project, which is part of the ongoing momentum in the Kingdom’s higher education and scientific research sectors, also aims to meet the growing needs for training and human resources development.

The Association of Agricultural Input Wholesalers and Retailers of Burkina Faso (AGRODIA) organized a guided tour of the Agricultural Technology Transfer Center (CTTA) on Thursday, September 17, 2026, in Samendeni. This initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Soil Values program and the Burkina Phosphate Mining Company (SEPB), aimed to promote good agricultural practices, high-yield seeds, and specific fertilizer formulations to strengthen farmers’ resilience.

The Galerie Rouge in Pont-l’Abbé and the Centre d’éveil aux arts plastiques de Cornouaille (CEAPC), known as “L’Atelier,” are launching a partnership that broadens the horizons of both organizations.

On Saturday, September 26, the Association of Artisans, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs (ACE) of Tillières invites residents and visitors to an open house featuring local artisans, merchants, and entrepreneurs.

BirdLife Switzerland reports a record increase in the field lark population in the Grand-Marais: 68 males in 2026. This success stands in contrast to the nationwide decline in field bird populations, which calls for urgent action.

Open to doctoral students and early-career researchers, as well as college and high school teachers, this year’s International Study and Creativity Day on “Language(s) and Translation” will focus on “the said, the unsaid, and the oversaid about colors—from precision to necessary approximations.” Scheduled for November 28, 2026, in a hybrid format at the University of Bucharest, the event will offer an interdisciplinary exploration of color, viewed in turn as a sign, mark, marker, symbol, or indicator of a phenomenon in various fields, but also as a true driving force behind creation and creativity.

In this era of European integration, sister city relationships bring citizens closer together. The one between Champigné (Les Hauts-d’Anjou) and Warmond has been in place for 23 years. But 2026 saw the arrival of a new team eager to breathe new life into the partnership! Following the Dutch delegation’s visit in the spring, it will be the residents of Les Hauts-d’Anjou’s turn to travel to the Netherlands in mid-October.