FLGR announced the second Innovative Practices Competition on the following topic: Municipal cooperation and public-private partnerships. The deadline for receiving innovative practices is September 16, 2005. At the end of September 2005 FLGR will award the Innovation Practices Winner.

The cooperation between local governments presents the opportunity for municipalities to concentrate human and financial resources for providing effective and high-quality services, implementing joint activities, providing services one-to-one municipality, establishing joint funds, exchanging municipal experts, establishing councils or associations of municipalities. If there are such examples of mutual trust and cooperation between local governments, describe them in the form of concrete joint initiatives and participate in the FLGR s Innovative Practices Competition!

The municipal property management is key activity in every municipal administration. Aiming at high efficiency of work and activities municipalities use untraditional approaches like public-private partnership. The PPP model is different kind of cooperation where public and private sector acquire property rights and mutual responsibility for providing high-quality services; public, private and non-profit organizations enhance their capacity for achieving their goal together by sharing risk, responsibilities, means and results. If there is successfully implemented PPP in your municipality, describe it and participate in the FLGR s Innovative Practices Competition!