In October 2018, with technical assistance from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN), the Urban Governance Project (UGP), implemented by the Asia Foundation,  organised a two-day horizontal learning process (HLP) training for the Municipality of Ulaanbaatar (MUB).  The objective of this training was to contextualise the HLP for capacity building training within Ulaanbaatar’s nine districts and 152 khoroos.  During this interactive two day training, each district and selected khoroo shared their good practices and 21 examples were documented.  

The key take-away from this training was that UGP and MUB learned the essential process and necessary steps to identify a good practice and the participatory processes related to scaling up initiatives by sharing and documenting them

Additional outcomes of the trainings include:

• A working group was established by MUB tofollow on the workplan and activities. This group will plan a workshop and experience sharing on the Best Khoroo Competition in December.
• Six activity plans were developed by participants from the districts and sent to UGP for review.
• Participants realised that HLP does not require significant financing, but can be achieved by lower level units of administration, for example districts, using already allocated financing.  Many of the observed changes required were connected to the necessity of broadcasting and sharing key achievements.
• HLP principles were included in MUB’s training framework (TF) submitted to the UB City Khural for approval.  The TF provisions outline the necessity of collecting and identifying existing good practices and how to replicate and scale up such initiatives.