Evaluating city-to-city cooperation: a case study of the Penang and Yokohama experience

Strengthening urban governance in the South through city-to-city cooperation: Towards an analytical framework

“…The body of academic knowledge on urban governance has thus far paid limited attention to the practice of international city partnering as instrument for strengthening governance in the South, and a need for further research has been indicated (Hewitt, 1999;Tjandradewi et al, 2006). This paper aims to contribute to overcome this knowledge deficit.…”

“…This is manifested in the increased number of partnerships, projects and programmes facilitating so-called city-to-city cooperation (C2C), which has been estimated to incorporate 70% of the world's cities (UCLG, 2006). Such cooperation has been identified as instrumental in the institutional strengthening of local administrations and improving people's lives in urban areas, especially in the South (Bontenbal & van Lindert, in press;Hewitt,1999;Tjandradewi, Marcotullio, & Kidokoro, 2006;UNDP, 2000;UN-HABITAT, 2003).…”

Municipal partnerships and learning – Investigating a largely unexplored relationship

“…A review of recent literature (e.g. van Ewijk & Baud, 2008;Hewitt, 2004;Tjandradewi, Marcotullio, & Kidokoro, 2006;Wilson & Johnson, 2007) reveals several notions of education and learning in the field of municipal partnerships amongst its protagonists as well as amongst researchers, e.g., with regard to the relation between individual and organizational learning. While most of the studies investigate whether partnership activities can enhance local development, whether they can contribute to organizational learning and/or capacity building, etc., only a few explicitly deal with individual learning (e.g.…”

Understanding North–South municipal partnership conditions for capacity development: A Dutch–Peruvian example

“…Abrahamsen, 2004;Fowler, 1998;Lister, 2000). However, a focus on North-South partnerships between municipalities has thus far been lacking to a large extent and a need for further academic research has been indicated (Hewitt, 1998;Tjandradewi, Marcotullio, & Kidokoro, 2006). This paper is directed towards meeting this need.…”

“…Partnerships between cities, also referred to as City-to-City Cooperation (C2C) (UNDP, 2000) have been considered promising mechanisms for developing capacity in local administrations (Hewitt, 1998;Tjandradewi et al, 2006;UNDP, 2000;UN-Habitat, 2003), which has become a pressing need in many developing countries after decentralisation reforms. However, little is known about what constitutes good partnering between local governments to bring about institutional capacity development.…”