The Civil Society Forum took place in Bratislava, on Septeber 16-18, 2009, engaging 250 people, with the parallel Social Innovation Camp CEE bringing another 70 from the CEE region and beyond. The organizers collected all relevant conference materials on a website, including written and visual materials produced, pieces of the live reporting from the Forum in Bratislava, some of the background research as well as the best submissions for the civil society contest.

URL for additional information:
http://csf.ceetrust.org/

Category: Citizen Education, Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations,

The Governance Assessment Portal is funded and managed through the global window of the UNDP Global Programme on Democratic Governance Assessments, and aims to be a hub of information and a valuable entry-point on democratic governance assessments

URL for additional information:
http://www.gaportal.org/

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes, Management Methods and Tools,

Eldis is a website aiming to share the best in development, policy, practice and research with topics organized into two formats - Resource Guides and Dossiers. The Governance assessments dossier offers publications that are available online, free of charge, and produced by experts, institutions and organizations that work in the field of governance assessments.

URL for additional information:
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/dossiers/governance-assessments

Category: Citizen Education,

The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilization and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education. The cornerstone of the Project is this wide-reaching website on education rights. The site provides information on a wide range of topics, including and overview of the right to education, violations, excluded and vulnerable groups, education financing, social mobilization and legal route, at the local and national level, some at the regional and international level. In addition, the country database is a unique resource documenting the constitutional protection (or lack of) of the right to education in all 192 countries.

URL for additional information:
http://www.right-to-education.org/

Category: Education,

Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) launched the fourth of its gateway guides, designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to a number of governance and social development topics. Besides the new collection GSDRC previously developed similar sites for Decentralization and local governance and Public financial management and accountability.

URL for additional information:
http://www.gsdrc.org/go/gateway-guides/anti-corruption

Category: Citizen Education,

The Partnership's aim is to promote democracy and good governance; strengthen energy security; promote sector reform and environment protection; encourage people to people contacts; support economic and social development; offer additional funding for projects to reduce socio-economic imbalances and increase stability in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.

URL for additional information:
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/eastern/index_en.htm

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments, European Integration, International Partnerships and Programs, Municipal Service Provision,

This gateway guide of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) is designed to point readers to the most useful, credible and up-to-date resources available on the internet in relation to decentralisation and local governance (D&LG) in a development context.

URL for additional information:
http://www.gsdrc.org/go/gateway-guides/decentralisation-and-local-governance

Category: Citizen Participation, Citizen and Local Government Relations, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes,

Belgrade Open School (BOS) is non-governmental, not-for-profit educational organization. BOS contributes to the overall development of society through additional education and training to agents of social change, research and policy-development in order to build modern society based on democratic values.

URL for additional information:
http://www.bos.rs/eng/

Category: Citizen Education, Education, European Integration,

The new knowledge hub and social network LEDNA, dedicated to local economic development practitioners and policy makers in Africa, and globally. LEDNA is far more than a supply driven knowledge hub; members of the network can upload their own resources, job opportunities, events, they can blog and get in touch with each other. The social network is considered to a critical way in which local practitioners can develop capacity and learn from each other. Virtual and physical, thematic and geographic networks will be facilitated by the LEDNA team and network.

URL for additional information:
http://www.ledna.org/ledna-substance/how-use-ledna

Category: Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments,

The City Mayor website lists and reviews urban events, conferences and seminars, directories, as well as reports and news from towns and cities around the world.

URL for additional information:
http://www.citymayors.com/

Category: Economic Development and Partnerships, Securing Investments, Local Government Finance, Budgeting, Municipal Credit, Taxes, Management Methods and Tools, Municipal Property Management and Privatization, Municipal Service Provision, Social Services, Transportation, Urbanization,