Twinning as a tool for promoting Twinning as a tool for promoting dialogue among local governments, dialogue among local governments,

citizens and entrepreneurscitizens and entrepreneurs

Riga14-12-2011

Town twinningTown twinning

Is a way to foster human and cultural links among nations.Developed in Europe as a way of creating friendship ties and understanding between the countries affected by the war, town twinning quickly spread all over the world.

Lithuanian municipalities’ Lithuanian municipalities’ twinnings: numberstwinnings: numbers

First twinning links- 1960 Smallest number of twinning links- Pagėgiai (4)Largest number of twinning agreements – Vilnius city (35) Average~ 10 twinning links per municipality

Lithuanian twinning linksLithuanian twinning links

Poland~ 120 Latvia over 35Estonia over 20Denmark over 25Sweden over 35Norway over 20

Promotion of cooperation between Lithuanian and Norwegian local

authorities and their associations in the field of municipal IT services

Project partnersProject partners

Association of Local Authorities in Lithuania

Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities

Project partnersProject partnersAlytus city municipality Alytus district municipality Panevėžys city municipality Kaunas city municipality Klaipėda district municipalityŠiauliai district municipalityRaseiniai district municipalityLazdijai district municipalityKėdainiai district municipality

Goals of the projectGoals of the project

- To strengthen the administrative capacities of Lithuanian municipalities; - to develop and introduce digital municipal administrative services by using Norwegian experience; - to develop a platform for future cooperation of Lithuanian and Norwegian municipal administrative services and ICT specialists

Project activitiesProject activities• Field visit of Lithuanian municipal specialists to Norway;• Round table discussion;• Feasibility study on adoption and introduction of Norwegian good experience in the field of e-municipality development in Lithuania;• Co-operation strategy of Lithuanian and Norwegian municipal ICT specialists.

Promotion of cooperation Promotion of cooperation between Lithuanian and between Lithuanian and

Norwegian local authorities and Norwegian local authorities and their associations in the field of their associations in the field of

social servicessocial services

The goal of the project – to strengthen the administrative capacities of Lithuanian municipalities to provide community-based social services by using Norwegian experiences and to develop a platform for future cooperation between Lithuanian and Norwegian municipal social services specialists.

Project partnersProject partners

Association of Local Authorities in LithuaniaNorwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities

Project partnersProject partnersAlytus district municipality administrationAnykščiai district municipality administrationLazdijai district municipality administrationPasvalys district municipality administrationPlungė district municipality administrationRadviliškis district municipality administration Trakai district municipality administration

Rendering community-based Rendering community-based services for healthy ageingservices for healthy ageing

To enhance the quality of life for elderly people in Belarus through development of community-based services. Promotion of appropriate policies, programmes and legislation for the elderly care

Project partnersProject partnersAssociation of Local Authorities in LithuaniaVoronovo Regional Executive CommitteeAlytus district municipality administrationGrodno City Executive CommitteeDruskininkai city municipality administrationBraslav Regional Executive CommitteeIgnalina district municipality administrationStichting Yanos Public Health, Netherlands

Specific objectivesSpecific objectives• To build the capacity of local authorities in developing, implementing and sustaining policies, programmes and services that improve the lives of elderly people.• To enable older people to gain access to services through provision of information on entitlements, advice on accessing these and confidence building to approach those who hold control of information, resources and services.• To raise awareness for the importance of revision of existing and/or adoption of new legislation and strategies on elderly care.

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