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As the 2015 deadline for the achievement of the 2005 Millennium Development Goalsapproaches the United Nations and the international community are preparing to define a new agenda that will follow on - the so-called Post 2015 agenda. The Local and Regional Government Taskforce on Post-2015 UN Development Agenda Local and regional authorities...
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2012 has been a year of financial and economic hardship for many of the members of UCLG. We have also seen conflicts, which have marked the international agenda, and under the continuously changing circumstances, important steps are being undertaken to define the future global agenda.   UCLG...
United Nations and its partners have worked together to create MY World Campaign, a groundbreaking global survey which aims to encourage people to participate in the process of defining next goals for the end of poverty. From today, people around the world can enter www.myworld2015.org and vote...
The COP 18, the UN Climate Change Summit closed on 8 December 2012 in Doha after 2 weeks of discussions principally focused in the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol from January 2013 and the follow up of the search for an agreement that to be adopted in 2015. The conclusions of Doha talks have mainly ensured...
On 20th and 21st February 2013, Dublin City Council will co-host with UNDP in partnership with UN Women, UNDP and UNITAR and in association with the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU, the 8th Forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP) at the RDS in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. The forum...
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UCLG/ UCLGA , the Cities Alliance / Metropolis created an event on peer learning in cities. Chaired by KubeshneeGovender Jones, strategic advisor to the Cities Alliance and UCLGA, the event turned its spotlight on learning methodologies. Peer Learning is a useful model for cities, as it focuses on challenges...
Following the meeting dedicated to the election of new members, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa, the General Assembly of UCLG Africa, the African Section of UCLG, Mr Khalifa Sall was selected as head of the Executive Bureau Committee.   In the short term, Khalifa Sall wishes...
COMMITTEES, WORKING GROUPS, COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & FORA
One of the main activities carried out by the Committee of Digital and Knowledge-based Cities of UCLG  in 2012 has been the elaboration of the  "Smart Cities Study: International study on the situation of ICT, innovation and Knowledge in cities". A work that has been...
Bertrand Delanoë, Mayor of Paris, and Anne Hidalgo, 1st Deputy Mayor of Paris and Chair of the UCLG Standing Committee on Gender Equality, would like to extend a warm invitation to participate in the Global Conference of Local Elected Women that will take place from Wednesday 30 January to Friday 1 February...
The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights and the conurbation authority of Plaine Commune, along with the towns of Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers (France), organized on 11 and 12 December 2012 the 1st World Summit of Local Governments for the Right to the City. The event...
The Mediterranean Commission of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), the City of Marseille, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region and member networks of the Mediterranean Commission are organising with the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs the 3rd Forum of Local and Regional...
The Regional Council of Provence Alpes Côtes d’Azur officially confirmed on Thursday 13 December that its President Michel Vauzelle will be leading a mission in the Mediterranean at the request of François Hollande, President of France.  According to the letter of the 20th September...
Hereby the CIB Working Group launches the new website!  www.cib-uclg.org To ease the use of the website, the lay-out of the new website was designed to be well-ordered and clear . Besides the changes in the design, the new website also aims to serve its visitors better content wise. We have improved...