A global community that cares

🖇️ Breakout rooms for Work Program Synchronizations

The following topics are envisaged: 

- Migration & The Lampedusa Charter 🖼️ Link to Zoom (same session as previous plenary)

This session will address the role of human mobility in the Pact for the People, building on the legacy of the Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City, the Marrakech Mayoral Declaration and the Durban Manifesto on Migration. Following the work of the Political Council on the Right to the City, the session proposes to take a further step in the synchronization of the migration agenda around the proposal by Lampedusa to co-create a document by and for communities through a broad and inclusive process that represents all parts of the network and amplifies their voice in global processes. Through a rights-based approach that sees migration as a natural phenomenon, a lever for peace and for the construction of an inclusive collective memory rooted in dignity, this conversation will set the ground to consolidate our global call for a new and fair narrative on human mobility.

- Digital Rights 🖼️ Link to Zoom

As access to technology is becoming a more important part of our daily lives and an integral element of service provision to guarantee inclusion, the discussion on digital rights, and on the role of cities in both developing and guaranteeing these rights and services, will be a critical component of the Pact for the Future for People. The work of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, and the Community of Practice on Digital Cities will be presented and next steps will be discussed.

- Accessibility 🖼️ Link to Zoom

Accessible and Inclusive Cities is a strategic policy pillar of the World Organisation, materialized by the process that led to the adoption of the Policy Paper on the topic during the World Congress in Durban. Recommendations include building the knowledge and leadership within our network to address universal accessibility as a core principle to sustainability and human rights.  

This session will present a series of online learning tools in development to support the capacity building of our network to address the policy recommendations and the Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible cities, The session also aims to explore potential ways to enhance the next phase of capacity building and knowledge development around the topic of universal accessibility, closing with a brief exploration of potential linkages with our priorities on accessibility to other thematic work areas a within the network that could benefit from the knowledge shared and developed through this community.

- Generation Equality 🖼️ Link to Zoom

UCLG is Generation Equality. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, UCLG is calling on the disproportionate impact of the crises on women and girls, the need to develop gender-sensitive responses in cities and territories, and particularly the fundamental importance of enabling local women leadership, decision-making and for the recovery. This year, the World Organization will promote the unique strength of feminist municipalism and the experiences of our female leaders, including at the Commission of the Status on Women (CSW 65), and the Generation Equality Forums in Mexico City and Paris. It’s time to reunite feminist local and regional leaders to end gender-based violence, discrimination and women underrepresentation, especially in public and political spaces.

- Rethinking development cooperation for local governments (session organized by CIB, Region of Catalonia and the Institute for Development Studies) 🖼️ Link to Zoom

As we enter 2021, we can see how the global conversation on development cooperation has taken a new light. How has it evolved over the past century? How have the universal development agendas influenced the way we work? How can we ensure that we bring national governments and the international donor community to respond to the needs of the people, all around the world? This session hopes to bring your visions, your contributions, and your commitments to the table to help us co-create the revised policy statement that UCLG and its CIB Working Group are preparing in the next months, which will itself feed our Pact for the Future.

Come and learn more about it during this break-out session!

UCLG TV 📺

Our UCLG TV will broadcast on demand with original and innovative material related to the topic of the day. Stay tuned to see your work and our work through this new connection window! 

🎥 [UCLG IN ACTION Channel] with latest news, conferences, campaigns and more.

🎬 [OUR VOICES Channel] with key interviews, talks, keynotes.

📽️ [LGR CARTOON NETWORK Channel] with animated and fun material.

UCLG HELP DESK 🎧 (click to enter)

Our Sherpas answer your questions live, create meetings, and connect you with fellow participants.

Networking HUB 💡 An interactive space via Wonder

An interactive space to “see” each other in real time, to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone, with a colleague or a dear friend you haven´t seen in a while. This new tool seeks to maintain the spirit, and informality of interactions typically taking place in the UCLG Networking HUB. Link to be shared when the Retreat begins.