Together with local governments, policy makers and citizens; through collaboration, learning and adaptation, governance, accountability, and participation, we work on establishing evidence-based universal morals and finding resolutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. From enlightening economic performance and creating efforts to promote strong education and fighting traditional misconceptions, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for statistics and investigations, exchange of experiences, best-practice involvement, and advice on participatory governance and local standard-setting. We support to strengthen governance systems with the aim of improving participatory service delivery for citizens.