Europe’s towns and regions are active in development cooperation establishing partnerships with their counterparts on other continents on issues such as climate change, gender equality, good governance, health, transport, education... PLATFORMA is their Brussels-based umbrella organisation; it endeavours to facilitate exchanges of information among local and regional governments (LRGs), to coordinate their advocacy efforts as well as to promote decentralised cooperation among major stakeholders such as the European Parliament, the European Commission, NGOs and other associations active in development cooperation.