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Training on Linking Cities Infrastructure Investment Projects to Finance

Back-to-back to the 6th Asia Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-6), this 1-day training event provides the platform for 25 city-representatives across Asia to connect, with the opportunity for learning, discussing, and exchanging ideas on how to link urban infrstructure investments projects to finance. Deadline for submitting applications is on Sunday, 27 September 2015. For Application Form …

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Inking partnership with CityNet in Sidoarjo, East Java

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UCLG ASPAC and CityNet was signed in Sidoarjo, East Java, on 5 September 2015 on the sidelines of the 33rd Executive Committee Meeting and International Seminar hosted by CityNet. Both parties agreed to collaborate in staging regional capacity building initiatives through joint work activities. The MoU shows both parties’ …

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Surakarta City Focusing on Health, Education and Housing Service

SURAKARTA City is implementing a program called Surakarta Society’s Heath Service or locally known as PKMS. This program started in 2008, focusing on marginalized people without health insurance. There are two PKMS packages, the Gold and the Silver. The first is for people declared as ”poor”. All their financial expenses for health service are fully …

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Wilson Shenweng May: Happy in UCLG ASPAC’ Secretariat Office, Jakarta

I am fortunate enough to be selected and appointed by Guangzhou Municipal Government of China to enjoy a two-month secondment at UCLG ASPAC in Jakarta. I obtained my full-time BA in English Linguistics from the Guangzhou-based Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2005 and my part-time MPhil in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages …

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Executive Bureau and Council Meetings in Wakatobi

THE 2015 Executive Bureau and Council Meetings were held in conjunction with the Conference on “Local Government Voices Towards Habitat III on a New Urban Agenda” in Wakatobi on 6-7 September 2015. Commenced first on 5 September with the Conference, mayors, district chiefs, and other representatives from around Asia-Pacific were present on these meetings,  including the host …

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UCLG ASPAC President Gov. Won Hee-ryong Visited Jakarta and Met Gov. Ahok

FLYING far from Jeju Island –the southernmost part of the Republic of Korea– Jeju Self Governing Province’s Governor Won Hee-ryong came to visit Jakarta and met his counterpart DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, last 4 November 2015.  Both discussed various issues including efforts to boost eco-tourism in Kepulauan Seribu (Thousands Islands) as  explained …

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“Ready or not for the AEC?”, DELGOSEA Hosts Discussion in Hanoi

THE ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is now imminent and every local governments in Southeast Asia region –members of ASEAN– is now facing this critical question: Are you ready or not? One-day long seminar adopting the theme of “Ready or Not? Local Governments Facing Economic Integration in Southeast Asia” took place in Hanoi last 2 December …

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