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Over the past few years, the dissemination of knowledge in a strategic manner among cities has fueled development partners such as Cities Alliance, UN Habitat, GIZ and universities and institutions, to become partners in a number of the activities conducted in the framework of the  UCLG programme on South-South Cooperation. Building on the motivation...
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The United Cities and Local Governments calls for candidatures to renew its presidency and treasurer. The Presidency is the principal representative of the World Organization of Cities and Local Governments and will be elected by its World Council, which will meet on 4 October 2013 in...
MY World is a global survey for citizens led by the United Nations and partners in the framework of the Post-2015 process and the elaboration of the future agenda for sustainable development agenda. It aims to capture people's voices, priorities and views and bringing them forward to global leaders to...
From the 13 to 15 February, the city of Arusha, Tanzania, welcomed over 400 participants for the fourth Africa Regional Platform for Disaster and Risk Reduction. Representatives from all African national platforms, local elected representatives, international organisation (UN Habitat, WHO, AfDB, GFDRR, UNEP,...
UNISDR calls for contributions to the global disaster risk reduction framework. Through this survey, UNISDR and partners would like to promote the needs of Cities and Local Governments to be better reflected in the national and global priorities. Feedback will help to shape the future of risk reduction. For...
The report “At the Heart of the City: Mayors on the Urban Future” encompasses the captivating discussion that occurred during the Mayors Roundtable at the World Urban Forum 6 held in September 2012 in Naples, Italy, where UCLG and other partners participated. Attended by 400 Mayors...
Taking place in a challenging European context, the PLATFORMA Forum “Supporting Sustainable Development through local and regional governments” where UCLG participates actively, will be held in Brussels from 4-5 march 2013 and will address the need for Innovation in decentralized...
IOPD
The IOPD Distinction for Best Practice in Citizen Participation is an initiative to recognize those innovative experiences and ideas coordinated by local governments in the field of participative democracy. Candidacy for this award is open to all local governments, municipal entities and extra-municipal...
UCLG Sections & members
World Mayors, who care about their cities and their people, will gather in Johannesburg, from 16-19 July 2013 to participate in the Metropolis Annual and Board of Directors Meeting. The City of Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa....
UCLG-FLACMA
THE VII LATIN AMERICAN CONGRESS OF UNITED CITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ExperienciAmérica 2013, is an open forum for the debate of big topics which currently outline and determine the present and future of Local Governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. The exchange of experiences, the presentation...
United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) would like to invite all members to participate in the UCLG-MEWA Congress (Executive Bureau, Council and General Assembly Joint Meeting) to be held on 10-11 April 2013 in Tehran, Iran and to be hosted by the Tehran...
COMMITTEES, WORKING GROUPS, COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE & FORA
The UCLG Middle East Working Group is organising, from 18th - 26th March 2013, a Scoping and Solidarity mission aimed at local and regional authorities welcoming Syrian refugees open to authorities in border countries of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. Elected representatives from French,...
Last December the annual meeting of the Committee on Decentralization and Local Self-Government was held within the framework of the UCLG World Council in Dakar (Senegal). The meeting provided an overview of the activities undertaken by the Committee throughout 2012 and highlighted activities planned for...
Inclusive Cities Observatory
We are pleased to inform you that the translations into Spanish, French and English of all the case studies of the Inclusive Cities Observatory are now available on our Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights webpage. The Observatory is a space for analysis...