KLGI and LGiU sign a memorandum of cooperation for a strategic partnership

The Kosovo Local Government Institute (KLGI) and the London-based (United Kingdom) Institute for Local Democracy and Information (LGiU) on Thursday signed a memorandum of cooperation for a strategic partnership.

The aim of the memorandum is for the KLGI and LGiU Institutes to continue and deepen their cooperation in future to improve governance and strengthen the local level.

The memorandum of cooperation was signed by the Executive Director of KLGI, Mr Besnik Tahiri, and the Executive Director of LGiU, Dr Jonathan Carr-West.

After the signing of the memorandum, the Executive Director of LGiU, Mr Jonathan Carr-West, stressed that LGiU is committed to improvement in the field of local governance.

“We are very pleased to be working with the KLGI Institute and to learn, research and build capacities together, and we are also excited to be involved in this cooperation”, Carr-West emphasised.

The Executive Director of KLGI, Mr Besnik Tahiri, said that it is a great honour to sign a memorandum of understanding with the LGiU institute.

“We are committed to local government, to effective decentralisation and to applying innovations and the model of good governance that serve as a means of moving processes forward”, Tahiri stressed.