Visitors from North Africa and the Near East learned about urban planning and green development initiatives in the U.S. during a stop at ICMA.

Municipal officials from Kosovo visited ICMA on a study tour designed to show how decentralization works in the United States--and how the U.S. experience can provide lessons for their newly independent republic.

In the South Asian country of Sri Lanka, the benefits of an ICMA program live on.

Under an agreement with Toyo University in Tokyo, ICMA will deliver an intensive workshop on public management in local government to Japanese students.

With funding from the World Bank, ICMA will develop a certification program in municipal financial management for officials from Southeast Asian nations.

Two Panamanian cities have formed municipal violence prevention committees modeled after community-oriented policing approaches in the United States.

With new funding, ICMA will help volunteer fire organizations in Paraguay improve their incident command systems.

Municipal and police officials from El Salvador learn how Santa Ana, California, approaches community-oriented policing and makes it work.

Firefighters in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, will work more safely thanks to a donation of protective gear spearheaded by a Florida fire chief and facilitated by ICMA.