Twelve former black "babies" retrained as upholsterers and carpenters received certificates of completion from the High Commissioner for Restorative Justice and the Prevention and Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency, Adolphe Mbou-Maba, in the presence of the mayor of the 4th arrondissement, Moungali, Bernard Batantou, and the president of the Artisans de Moungali association, Ghislaine Matondo.
Read moreAt the opening of Thursday's town council meeting, Brigitte Lebert, deputy town councillor for culture, reported on the trip to the German twin town of Aspach over the May 8 weekend.
Read moreThe two parties, who have signed a 4-year renewable partnership agreement, will focus on two key sectors: energy and vocational training.
Read moreThe Regional Development Plan (PDR), which provides a forum for the convergence and integration of sectoral programs, is intended to be a "mobilizer, facilitator and incentive", said Mohamed Sadiki, Minister of Agriculture, Sea Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, on Friday in Guelmim.
Read moreOver the Ascension weekend, 51 Beaucouzé residents visited their friends in Selb, Bavaria. And at the beginning of the month, schoolchildren were also welcomed by their German correspondents. "Exchanges have been very fruitful", says the president of the twinning committee.
Read moreAt the age of 22, Auréa, a political science student at UNamur, is the founder of the non-profit organization "Lueur d'espoir", which fights against menstrual precariousness. Every month, she organizes hygiene kit distributions in the streets of Wallonia's major cities to help women in precarious situations. We met her during a distribution in the streets of Charleroi.
Read morePromoting good democratic governance is one of the priorities of the Latvian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (May 17-November 15, 2023).
Read moreIn Togo, the Haute Autorité de Prévention et de Lutte contre la Corruption et les Infraractions Assimilées (HAPLUCIA) will involve local authorities in the fight against corruption. To this end, between June and September 2023, it is planning a national capacity-building campaign for elected representatives and municipal executives.
Read moreIn its report "Decentralization, 40 years on", the French Audit Office (Cour des Comptes) recommends a new stage in decentralization, to review the distribution of powers between the State and the various levels of local government. This would involve a further reduction in the number of communes, through mergers or the creation of communes-communautés.
Read moreIn Plomodiern (Finistère), the municipal opposition would have liked a boost to keep up with inflation. A social subsidy of €37,497 was voted to cover social charges for canteen staff at Notre-Dame school.
Read moreParticipants in a study day on the fight against the proliferation of drugs and psychotropic substances stressed on Wednesday in Blida the need to step up awareness-raising efforts to tackle this dangerous phenomenon.
Read moreThe Gathering of Elected Officials of the Conference of Prefects of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, held Thursday in Amos and Friday in Landrienne, included announcements from the Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
Read moreOn Thursday, Aïssatou Diokhané Sow, national coordinator of Senegal's urban modernization program (PROMOVILLES), visited road and sanitation sites in the communes of Foundiougne and Sokone, in the Fatick region (west), to see the progress of work costing over one billion six hundred million CFA francs undertaken in these two towns by the program.
Read moreThe revitalization of the integrated territorial child protection system was the focus of a communication meeting held on Thursday at the Prefecture of the Casablanca-Anfa districts.
Read moreThe Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires and Régions de France, in partnership with the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, are pleased to invite you to the Interreg 2021 - 2027 National Seminar: Intensifying cooperation between territories on Friday, June 9, 2023 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hôtel de Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Marseille.
Read moreThe Délégation pour l'action extérieure des collectivités territoriales (DAECT) and the association Sites et Cités remarquables de France (SCRF) have launched for the first time a three-year call for projects 2023-2025 "Heritage and decentralized cooperation" with the aim of supporting decentralized cooperation projects in the field of natural and built heritage.
Read moreThe information was made public by Théoneste Mutsindashyaka, ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to the Congo, following a meeting on May 23 with Evelyne Tchitchellé, mayor of the city of Pointe-Noire.
Read moreTurquoise waters, a fine sandy beach: Point Pelee National Park headlines one of the latest publications on the BlogTo website. A promotional campaign is well underway in the Greater Toronto Area to promote the Sud-Ouest region, which in summer becomes a popular destination for Canadian and American tourists.
Read moreThe fragility of food security, highlighted in particular during Covid-19, led the NGO Eco-Sud to reflect on the issue, resulting in the implementation of a Resilient Organic Community project in Ville-Noire, Mahébourg, a village in the south-east of France whose inhabitants were affected by the sinking of the MV Wakashio.
Read moreFrom Thursday May 18 to Sunday May 21, delegations from the towns of Miastko (Poland), Vrbovec (Croatia) and Bethany-Beach (USA) were welcomed to celebrate ten years of twinning with Périers. Representatives of the town of Bad-Fallingbostel (Germany) were also present. An official reception was held on Saturday evening at the Salle Mandela, attended by 130 people and the municipal wind band, which played the anthems of the nations represented.
Read moreThe high mass of the world of agriculture and research opened this Thursday, May 25, 2023 in Ouagadougou, around the theme "Contribution of agricultural research results to the resilience of populations and the employability of young people and women: the case of improved seeds in the context of security and food crises". The opening ceremony was held under the patronage of the Prime Minister, represented by the Minister of State, Bassolma Bazié, accompanied by his colleagues from higher education, Adjima Thiombiano, and agriculture, Dénis Ouédraogo.
Read moreCooperation between Vietnam and France in the field of education is as old as the hills, but this type of cooperation between localities is something of a novelty. The cooperation project between the Lycée Horticole et du Paysage du Petit Chadignac and the lycée des surdoués in Thang Long is proof of this.
Read moreAfter four years of no travel, the Vendéens from Palluau returned to their cousins in Palluau-sur-Indre in the Indre region.
Read moreSeveral development projects were recently launched in the province of Sifi Ifni, as part of the commemoration of the 18th anniversary of the National Initiative for Human Development (INDH).
Read moreThe Official Development Assistance declaration campaign (on 2022 amounts) is open on cncd.fr until 31 May 2023. This collection is carried out by the National Commission for Decentralized Cooperation (CNCD), with the support of the Delegation for the External Action of Local Authorities (DAECT).
Read moreAfter more than a year of training, young offenders retrained in carpentry, upholstery and woodwork received their certificates of completion on May 23 in Brazzaville from the High Commissioner for Restorative Justice, Treatment and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, Adolphe Mbou-Maba.
Read moreNew Brunswick municipalities are concerned that their democratic power will be eroded if the Blaine Higgs government's Bill 45 on the creation of a Local Governance Commission is passed in its current form.
Read moreOn Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at the headquarters of the National Association of Benin Communes (ANCB) in Abomey-Calavi, the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the Sedentarization of Ruminant Herds Project (ProSeR) and the communes impacted by the project's actions took place, as well as the official launch of the handing over of the certificates of customary ownership (ADC) to the individual herders.
Read moreOrange offers solutions to local authorities in terms of cyber defense. On Tuesday, the operator organized a round table on its campus in Eysines to raise awareness among elected officials and administrative staff.
Read moreIn the municipality of Floreffe, the Hittelet family leaves the vegetables from their garden "in excess" in front of their house. A self-service and donation system based on a simple principle: everyone gives what they want. Through Les légumes des apprentis jardiniers, they create links and give the children of the family the opportunity to learn how to cultivate the earth.
Read moreThe Provincial Committee for Human Development (CPDH) of Laayoune has recently launched a call for proposals for projects under the axis of improving income, promoting the social economy and solidarity (SSE) and income-generating activities (IGA).
Read moreThe President of the Executive Council of the CTM, Serge Letchimy, and the President of the Foundation for the Memory of Slavery, Jean-Marc Ayrault, signed a letter of intent this Tuesday morning (May 23).
Read moreIn 2018, the Ile-de-France Region announced a regional strategy on artificial intelligence (AI2021) aimed at making it the major AI hub in Europe, and, last September, a regional plan on climate change adaptation (PRACC). In line with these two initiatives, it is launching the "Artificial Intelligence Challenge for the Energy Transition". The latter is organized in partnership with RTE, the French electricity transmission system operator, and will be awarded a grand prize of up to €500,000.
Read moreThe prefect of the department of Tiébissou, Ernest Gouassiro, has called on the entire population to take ownership of the fight against corruption at the official installation of the local integrity committee (CLI) and the anti-corruption platform (Anticor) on Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
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