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The Third UCLG Global Report on Decentralisation, GOLD III, is currently contributing to the debate on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and on the Post 2015 agenda by presenting the vision of local authorities on the current situation of basic services in different regions of the world, concentrating on two aspects: access and management...
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The UN HLP Post 2015 met in Bali, Indonesia on 25-27 March to continue the work commissioned by the United Nations Secretary General to recommend an ambitious yet achievable framework for the world’s post-2015 development agenda. The Bali meeting focused on how to build a global partnership and means...
The Local and Regional Governments Development Agenda Local and Regional Governments organizations gathered in a Global Taskforce for Post 2015 are fully committed to end extreme poverty in all its forms, in the context of sustainable development, and to contribute to put in place the building blocks of...
UN Habitat
The United Nations Agency in charge of the Habitat Agenda (UN-Habitat) is holding its 24th Governing Council on 15-19 April in Nairobi, Kenya. This year’s Council will take as its special theme: ‘Sustainable urban development: the role of cities in creating improved economic...
On 13-14 March, representatives of the Global Network on Safer Cities (GNSC) gathered in New York City to establish a global agenda for a safer future in the cities of the world. The meeting concluded on the idea that a “change in mentalities and strategies” was necessary. In this perspective,...
The City of Bilbao will hold the “World Cities Summit Mayors Forum 2013” that will gather local representatives from the five continents, and will take place on the 13th and 14th of June, with the main objective of exchanging ideas and experiences about important issues such as the economic recovering...
In the framework of the preparation of third edition of the World Forum Local Authorities of Periphery (FALP) on “Rights and Democracy for solidarity-based and sustainable Metropolises”, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is organizing a preparatory meeting to present the metropolitan...
UCLG Sections & members
The next meeting of the Comparative Study on Metropolitan Governance, a Metropolis Initiative led by the Secretariat for Metropolitan Development in the State of São Paulo, with technical support from Empresa Paulista de Planejamento Metropolitano SA (Emplasa), will take place in the city...
With the occasion of the PLATFORMA Forum, local and regional elected representatives had the opportunity to recall that the economic crisis calls for better coordination and joint development actions carried out by European local and regional governments. Transparency and efficiency were also considered vital...
" National Consultation Early ChildHood Development On The Post 2015 Agenda” meeting has been held with the Cooperation of UNICEF-Turkey and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality with the support of UCLG-MEWA in Istanbul Dedeman Hotel. Experts and practitioners who came together from Turkey...
COMMITTEES, WORKING GROUPS, COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & FORA
An international delegation of elected and local government practitioners, under auspices of UCLG and its Middle East Working Group, visited Syrian border municipalities in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon on 18-26 March. At the initiative of UCLG President Topbaş, elected officials from French, Turkish, and...
The UCLG Committee on Culture has prepared the document “ECOSOC 2013: the role of culture in sustainable development to be explicitly recognized” to assist persons and organizations willing to effectively contribute to the preparations of the 2013 session of the UN Economic and Social Council...
With a mission to promote the financing of local governments, the Committee on Local Finances for Development (CLFD) deploys a number of "pilot" activities on the African continent, with the intention to extend them to all sections of UCLG. Africities Summit in Dakar gave the opportunity to the...
 On 12 April in Barcelona, the first Agora of Cities is to be held, a meeting of mayors from Latin America, Europe and the Mediterranean region, set up with the aim of promoting political debate and the exchange of experiences and strategies for local governability focused on the model for future cities...
UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights presents its 2012 Activities Report and 2013 Action Plan.   The “1st World Summit of Local Governments for the Right to the City”, celebrated in Saint-Denis (France) on December...
Close to 400 local and regional elected officials and policymakers from 24 countries will debate on democratic governance in the Mediterranean during the 3rd Forum of Local and Regional Authorities of the Mediterranean that will be held in Marseille on 3 & 4 April 2013. For the first time since...
UCLG´s Standing Committee on Gender Equality and the whole of the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments join all partners, and in particular elected women and their associations, in the celebration of 2013 International Women´s Day. UCLG calls local and regional...