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If you care, you act seriously. How to organize good workshops for the commune’s development strategy?
One of the conditions for developing a good strategy is to listen to residents and entrepreneurs, especially leaders and decision-makers.
20 February 2024 -
Fate guides the creative, drags the passive. I review drafts of city development strategies.
I don’t just develop city development strategies. Mayors also let me review their projects. I’ve done two recently. The idea is that I find their imperfections, the authorities correct them and the strategy becomes better – for residents, business and the environment.
26 January 2024 -
Strategies of communes will be more *eco*. The draft of new regulations has just been submitted to the parliament.
A draft amendment to the *Environment Protection Law* has just been submitted to the Polish Parliament, obliging the authorities of all 2477 communes to set not only social, economic and spatial strategic goals in their strategies, but also “climate and environmental” ones!
10 January 2024 -
Siġġiewi & Roseto strategy. Indirect but strong relationship between social integration and health & safety.
Roseto is a small city in the USA (PA) that surprised scientists in the 20th century. The mortality rate of its inhabitants, Italian migrants, was approximately 1/3 lower than the average. This phenomenon could not be explained for a long time.
28 December 2023 -
Strategy and masterplan. It is not enough to have some strategy, even a legal one. You need to have good one.
The recent amendment to one of Polish legal acts determined that the MASTERPLAN takes into account in particular the spatial policy of the commune specified in the commune’s development strategy or the supra-local development strategy of communes.
20 December 2023 -
Self-government in Malta. Can we use their experiences in the development strategies of our communes?
As part of my travels in search of local development and inspirations for local & regional governments, I had the honor and pleasure of talking about Maltese local governments with the Acting President of Malta Prof. Frank Bezzina and with the Director General for Local Government in the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta, Natalino Attard
13 November 2023 -
How to develop a commune/city’ development strategy that responds to global and local challenges?
A lot is happening in politics, law, economy, technology, society, environment, etc. How can you find your way in this with your commune/city? What its development strategy you should develop, adapt and implement?
31 October 2023 -
Lectures at J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí n. Labem on strategic failures of local governments, Ústí, Czech Republic
There are few things only that can teach you as much as a solid, but well-thought-out failure! This also applies to strategic governance of the cities’ & communes’ development.
20 October 2023
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He came from Brazil to learn on development strategies of Polish communes
This is João Paulo Moreira Silva, PhD student at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. He came from Brazil to learn on development strategies of Polish communes
15 March 2023 -
Research meeting at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Research meeting at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
29 January 2020 -
My “Municipal Strategic Q&A” will be published in Polish “Community – Journal of Self-government” Episode #1 Should the commune have a development strategy?
This is the beginning of a new series of articles “Municipal Strategic Q&As” that will help local self-governments to build and implement good development strategies.
21 October 2021 -
From Singapore to learn on development strategies of Polish communes
This is Liuyang He, a PhD student at the National University of Singapore. She won a grant of NAWA – Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to learn on development strategies of Polish communes.
9 June 2022 -
Siyakhana Food Garden, Johannesburg, SA – traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local governments.
Siyakhana Food Garden, Johannesburg, SA – traveling in search of local development and inspirations for local governments.
27 October 2018 -
2 days of training on strategic governance of the city’s development for the authorities and the top management of Mikołów City
2 days of training on strategic governance of the city’s development for the authorities and the top management of Mikołów City
22 January 2020 -
She came from United Arab Emirates to learn on development strategies of Polish communes
This is Megna Kalvani, PhD student at SP Jain School of Global Management. He came from Dubai to learn on development strategies of Polish communes.
2 June 2023 -
She came from Kazakhstan to learn on development strategies of Polish cities
This is Aizhana Kazybayeva, a PhD student at Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan and a graduate of the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Sejong, South Korea. She won a grant of Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange to come to me for a month-long internship at the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
10 July 2023