The Hague Academy’s Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Finance Training: Netherlands Fellowship available

The Hague Academy is organizing the ‘Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Finance’ in The Hague in The Netherlands from 16 – 27 September, 2013. This course, developed in cooperation with the Urban Institute in Washington, helps you in answering questions such as: How can spending responsibilities and revenue resources be best assigned to the different government layers? How can financial management ate the local level be improved? And how can local authorities be held accountable in a transparant way? During the course, we will discuss various examples of financing public services, public-private partnerships and participatory budgeting.

This course will help you:

• assess and monitor fiscal decentralisation practices in your country;
• optimise the different sources of revenue, e.g. taxes, user fees and intergovernmental transfers;
• find effective financing structures and partnerships to accomplish most with limited resources;
• be able to use revenue and expenditure tools;

The Netherlands organisation for international cooperation in higher education (NUFFIC) offers the opportunity to apply for a fellowship for this training course, as part of the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP) for short courses.

You can apply for this fellowship between 1 December 2012 and 5 February 2013.

For more information, visit this link.

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