Network for Regional Government 4 Sustainable Development 15 Years old today and Going Strong
September 3rd this year will mark the 15th anniversary of the creation of the Network for Regional Government for Sustainable Development. There probably are not too many people now engaged in the sustainable development process at the global level who know the history of the setting up of the Network for Regional Government 4 Sustainable Development (nrg4sd). Let me tell you the story it all began one evening during the fourth preparatory meeting for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Bali Indonesia. Stakeholder Forum , which I was the Executive Director of at the time, had organized a side event looking at the issue of governance and the responsibility for follow up to the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. During the side event, a number of Regional Governments attending the prepcom expressed concern that there was no body that represented their views and concerns. It seemed that the local authority bodies were more focused at the cities and t...