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Cologne – Rio de Janeiro: “The partnership helps us reflect on our own actions”

Bonn, 2 September 2024. The Cologne – Rio de Janeiro partnership is hosting the partnership conference between German, Latin American and Caribbean municipalities on 4 and 5 September. Ahead of the partnership conference, we spoke to Ute Dreiocker and Bernardo Ornelas about the close collaboration, the milestones of the joint projects and about their expectations from getting together with other partnerships in Cologne.

Striving for equal municipal partnerships

Bonn, 1 July 2024. The focus of municipal partnerships and their development policy work is the mutual exchange of knowledge and the joint implementation of projects. In this article, you can read about how you and your partner municipality - despite existing systemic inequalities between the Global South and North - can nevertheless make cooperation as equal as possible and consciously reflect on thought patterns from the outset.

Münster - Tamale: A young active partnership

Bonn, 6 June 2024. Mustapha Amadu works as head of the public relations unit for the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly and is also the coordinator for the partnership between the city of Münster in Germany and the city of Tamale in Ghana. In this interview, he reports on the first steps, activities, interim successes, and experiences as well as future plans within the framework of the two cities’ cooperation.

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Conference Highlight

4th Partnership Conference between German, Latin American and Caribbean municipalities 2024

Partnerships for future-proof urban development – this will be the theme of the partnership conference that the Service Agency is organising in cooperation with the Cologne – Rio de Janeiro partnership in Cologne, from 4 to 5 September 2024.

German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnerships

On behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development the Service Agency (SKEW) has been supporting the network of already more than 200 formal and informal municipal partnerships since 2015 as part of the project „Municipal Partnerships with Ukraine“. This support includes various networking, consulting and promotion activities.

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