Client: Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs

Country: Hungary
Type: Training Capacity Development
Name: Implementation for national, regional and local plans for municipal solid waste landfills in Hungary
Date: October 2005
Project description:
The project supported Hungarian Authorities in meeting the criteria for European Union memberships through assistance in dealing with the implementation and consequences of the Council Directive on the landfill of waste. IHS developed the guidelines and conducted surveys for the project.

Client: UNDP – PPPUE

Country: Global
Type: Advisory
Name: Preparation of UNDP Guideline “Starting a Pro-Poor Public Private Partnership for a Basic Urban Service”
Date: 2006
Project description:
In order to elevate efficiency of basic urban services,IHS developed and promoted the previous guidelines to provide clear and concise conceptual guidelines on the PPP for urban services efficiency.

Client: World Bank

Country: Sub-Saharan African region
Type: Training Development
Name: Decentralization and local government support program for Africa
Date: August 2003
Project description:
To support national decentralisation policies through the development of training materials, a regional capacity building programme was proposed and implemented in several African countries. In addition, IHS conducted evaluation on training materials in the region.

Client: SAIL and Dutch government

Country: Peru, Lima, Arequipa, Trujillo
Type: Education Development
Name: Peru Urban Management Education Programme
Date: 2002
Project description:
The project aimed at the development and implementation of training and educational programmes for the Peruvian urban development sector. IHS supported academic education of post-graduate programmes of three universities jointly and outreach activities for the civic society, which was assisted by Secretariat of PEGUP in Lima and under umbrella of PEGUP.

Client: SAIL

Country: China
Type: Education Institutional Development
Name: Environmental Management in China (ENRICH)
Date: 2004
Project description:
The project aimed at fortifying environmental management and policy in education and research at Tsinghua University, completing and integrating the environmental technology part with an environmental social science part of Tsinghua University. During this training process, IHS developed general course of BSc/MSc in environmental management as well as PhD.

Client: Government of Eygpt and the Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation

Country: Egypt
Type: Educational Capacity Building
Name: Training and Research in Housing and Urban Development in Egypt and the Arab Region
Date: 2004
Project description:
In order to establish and strengthen capacities within HBRC to design and deliver tailor-made training programme in support to housing and urban development and to broaden capacity building in the housing and urban sectors.The project intended to establish a regional training center for the Arab region.This project aslo aimed at strengthening of local government and addressing issues related to the implementation of government policies.

Client: UN-Habitant, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of the Netherlands

Country: Kosovo and the Netherlands
Type: Institutional Development
Name: Governance and Development Planning in Kosovo, Spatial Planning component
Date: February 2006
Project description:
The 20-month project involved support for the development of the Institute for Spatial Planning in parallel with support for the development of the Kosovo Spatial Plan at national and local government levels. The project focused particularly on ensuring a participative planning process. Staff of the Institute for Spatial Planning was trained on-job in the context of the work plan.