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🖇️ Breakout rooms for Work Program Synchronizations

The following topics are envisaged: 

- VSRs

Fostering the localization of the Global Agendas is at the heart of the priorities of UCLG as a global network. Providing the local perspective to the national policies and in particular the national reporting is an important part of this process. UCLG has been promoting the development of so-called ‘Voluntary Subnational Reviews’ (VSR) in six countries. Building on last year's experience and the lessons learnt, this year we are facilitating the elaboration of VSRs in eight other countries, in direct collaboration with national associations of local and regional governments.

- Crisis

The breakout session will enable us to join forces to operationalize solidarity among members to help local and regional authorities to face crisis and build back resilient. The session will connect and synchronise with part of the work programme including the UCLG International Solidarity Fund, a new tool for solidarity and engage with projects underway in Indonesia, Mozambique, Lebanon, Ghana and Mali. 

- Connecting across Habitat Rights and the Right to the City: building on the dialogues with United Nations Special Rapporteurs

Building on the Town Hall process that articulated the dialogue of the World Organization with civil society, UCLG, HIC and the Platform for the Right to the city have been fostering structural dialogue with the United Nations Special Rapporteurs. This session will present the state of this dialogue and put up for discussion possible next steps in order to guarantee synchronization with the different parts of the network and contribute to influencing the multilateral system while consolidating the seat at the global table. 

- Local4Action HUBs

Recognizing the need to strengthen network and collective action and the effort and implementation of local and regional governments actions towards the global agenda’s delivery, the Local4Action HUBs initiative by UCLG celebrates practices and processes locally developed and supports their dissemination, scalability and replicability, to accelerate the global agendas’ localization. The initiative aims to scale up knowledge, share and promote open dialogue, investment and collaboration between territorial stakeholders to achieve transformational objectives. Therefore, it can be considered as a key platform to analyze, explore and communicate the importance of local actions towards the implementation of the global agendas.

The Local4Action HUBs by UCLG initiative anchors the global agendas’ localization on members’ innovative practices, processes and initiatives, providing the platform to connect, synchronize and accelerate the delivery of the global agendas, setting cities and regions as main actors for global sustainability. It provides visibility and a UCLG label to local and regional government ambitious and transformative initiatives, setting local approaches to sustainability at the forefront of the global conversation.

In the framework of the UCLG Retreat and Campus 2021, this session aims to raise awareness and promote interest in the Local4Action HUBs initiative, as a unique space for networking and learning for local innovation. It invites current initiatives, other local and regional governments and partners to discuss the importance of local actions towards global sustainability. It will promote the generation of new ideas, partnerships, elements, inputs for the political processes about 2030 Agenda and invite others to join this global dynamic.

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Networking HUB 💡

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.