One World Begins at Home

Many German municipalities and local governments are already utilising the potentials which implementing sustainable development strategies and municipal development cooperation holds for their communities and for the entire world. Their activities include school and municipal partnerships, people's and participatory budgets, fair procurement and intercultural capacity building. They know that a commitment to our One World benefits cities, towns and communities in Germany and in partner countries in many ways: business, civil society, and culture and the arts in these localities are now profiting from the 'internationality' which this brings.

The Service Agency Communities in One World supports you, as actors in the administrative, civil society or policymaking spheres, in developing and harnessing these potentials for your locality and for your municipal partners worldwide.

Your ideas and concepts, your creativity and your staying power are our motivation. Local commitment to our One World pays dividends to everyone concerned. We would be delighted to support you in making your contribution.

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First International Congress on Participatory Budgeting Models 21.-22.01.2010 Berlin

From the 21st to the 22nd of January 2010 the Service Agency Communities in One World organised the first international congress to models of Participatory budgeting. The congress was designed to move forward the opinion-making process at the municipal and policy-making levels in the national and international context. Decision makers and opinion makers from the spheres of policy making and administration from right across Europe Invited were. more...

11. Bundeskonferenz der Kommunen und Initiativen, June 18 – 20 th, 2009, Munich

Declaration
Climate change is already a reality, and one that hits people in emerging and developing countries harder than those in industrialised countries. Municipalities help cause climate change through their greenhouse gas emissions, but also suffer its impacts. At the same time, though, municipalities also generate key impetus for a successful shift toward a more sustainable society. Download

Local development policy in Germany

In the study published by the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik and the Service Agency Communities in One World, the authors Katrin Fröhlich and Bernd Lämmlin investigated the commitment of German cities, municipalities and rural districts to development policy. The summary of this study is available in English:
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German-Chinese Intermunicipal Relationships. Motives, Structures, Activity Areas

The study of the Service Agency Communities in One World is based on a empirical survey conducted in selected German municipalities which maintain relations with China. She describes in detail origin, character and activities as well as new main focuses of the cooperation.
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