Project LADDER on the starting blocks – 26 partners, 20 associates, one major challenge for the EU and its Neighborhood!

The project “LADDER – Local Authorities as Drivers for Development Education and Raising awareness” is about to start. The preview event of the 3-year project, led by ALDA together with other 25 partners and 20 associates from the European Union and its Neighborhood, will take place on 21-22 February in Modena, Italy, in the framework of the festival BUK.

Funded by EuropeAid, LADDER aims at raising awareness and strengthening the capacity of associations of local authorities and civil society organizations to act in a sustainable way as drivers for development, fostering their role of multipliers within their countries, communities and networks, to develop a multi-level active engagement in global challenges.

The European Year of Development 2015 is the right time to address these ambitious goals. ALDA together with all the project partners and associates will start this journey with passion and commitment, aware of the relevance of development cooperation and of its future for citizens, local authorities, and organized civil society in the enlarged Europe.

LADDER is the natural follow up of the project Working Together for Development, which focused on information, training, and networking for local authorities associations and networks of civil society organizations in the field of development cooperation. The will of the great majority of WTD partners in continuing the challenge together by setting higher goals cannot but be considered a key result of the project itself.

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The Partners of the project

LADDER consortium is composed of 26 partners (coming from 18 countries: 15 Members States and 3 from the neighborhood and the Balkans) that will be actively involved in the implementation of the project in order to enable Local Authorities to act as drivers for DEAR policies.

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	Acronym	Full title	Country
1	ALDA(leader)	European Association for Local Democracy	France
2	Foster Europe	Foundation for strong European Regions	Austria
3	JEF	Young European Federalists	Belgium
4	ENNA	European Network of National Civil Society Associations	Belgium
5	UBBSLA	Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities	Bulgaria
6	NAMRB	National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria	Bulgaria
7	CAC	Croatian Association of Counties	Croatia
8	Velje	Municipality of Vejle	Denmark
9	AER	Assembly of European Regions	France
10	NALAG	National Association of Local Authorities of Georgia	Georgia
11	AMPHICTYONY	EGTC Amphictyony	Greece
12	Donegal	Donegal County Council	Ireland
13	TECLA	Association per la cooperazione transazionale, locale ed europea	Italy
14	CIME	Consilio Italiano del Movimento Europeo	Italy
15	COPPEM	Comitato Permanente per il Partenariato Euromediterraneo delle Autoria Locali e le Regioni	Italy
16	Progettarte	Progettarte Associazione culturale	Italy
17	LALRG	Latvian Association of Local and Regional Authorities	Latvia
18	SOS Malta	Solidarity Overseas Service Malta	Malta
19	Birgu Local Council	Birgu Local Council	Malta
20	URC	Union of Rural Communes of the Republic of Poland	Poland
21	SKGO	Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities	Serbia
22	CEECN	Central and Eastern Europen Citizens Network	Slovakia
23	UTC	Union of Towns and Cities of Slovakia	Slovakia
24	SLOGA	Slovenian Global Action	Slovenia
25	The Hague Academy	The Hague Academy for Local Governance	The Netherlands
26	Lam Echaml	Lam Echaml Association	Tunisia

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The Associates of the project

The LADDER project also includes 20 associates (from 20 countries, 5 EU Member States and 15 non-EU countries). Associates will actively support the project’s objectives and implementation, not only by participating and contributing to the events organized within the project, but also by leveraging their respective networks to support the dissemination of the project’s outputs and increase the outreach.

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	Acronym	Full title of the Associates	Country
1	ADD-Medenine	Association pour le Développement Durable	Tunisia
2	AAM	Albanian Association of Municipalities	Albania
3	FACM	Algerian Forum for Citizenship and Modernity	Algeria
4	ALI	Agency for Legislative Initiatives (Лабораторія законодавчих ініціатив)	Ukraine
5	AMR	Romanian Municipalities Association	Romania
6	AKM	Association of Kosovo Municipalities	Kosovo*
7	ALAL	Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania	Lithuania
8	BINA	NGO Alliance for Municipality Development	Azerbaijan
9	CALM	Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova	Moldova
10	North-South Centre	North-South Centre of the Council of Europe	Portugal
11	CFOA	Communities Finance Officers Association	Armenia
12	CIRa	Center for Institutional Development	Macedonia (FYROM)
13	CISP	Comitato Internazionale per le Sviluppo dei Popoli	Italy
14	Civicus	World Alliance for Citizen Participation	South Africa
15	CLRA - CoE	Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe	France
16	Lev Sapieha	Lev Sapieha	Belarus
17	ESMESS	Réseau Marocain de l'Economie Sociale et Solidaire	Morocco
18	SEEYN	South East European Youth Network	Bosnia-Herzegovina
19	SHATIL	New Israel Fund - Shatil	Israel
20	UMM	Union of Municipalities of Marmara	Turkey

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