Breaking through for future generations
#UCLGMeets Annual Retreat 2022
Welcome to our interactive program!
On this page, you will be able to navigate between the different sessions organized in the framework of our 2022 Annual Retreat. You will be able to visit the page of each session, access the links to participate in the virtual meetings, and consult the key documents posted online.
Enjoy and feel the spirit of our Retreat while listening to the special 🎧 soundtrack of our diverse community specially made by and for you!
Program
For all participants. Special focus on UCLG Secretariats, Committees & Sections.
⬇️ You will find below the different sessions that will take place on our first day, which will be aiming at setting the stage with the UCLG Daejeon World Congress (10-14 October 2022) on the horizon.
In parallel to the different sessions, we offer you the possibility to attend our UCLG Networking Hub (on-site) to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone or connect with a colleague or a dear friend you haven't seen in a while. And if you attend our Retreat remotely, we have prepared for you some interesting programs on our UCLG TV (online)
Check in and warming up for in person participants.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎯 Description: As we wrap up a year when the pandemic and the climate emergency have continued to mark our work, we would like to challenge the odds with optimism and invite in-person participants to join an interactive exercise to kick off the week of the Retreat!
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: The World Secretariat will present the power of our municipal movement, and the plans and hopes of UCLG as we work together towards the Daejeon Congress in October of this year. This session aims to be a celebratory moment of the human powers, the “power of we” behind what makes UCLG the global home that it truly is.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Report of the Presidency 2019-2021
▶️ Work Plan for 2022
Break
🎯 Description: Don’t miss this chance to discover some of the engaging dynamics and resources included in our Localizing the SDGs learning modules, more relevant than ever during this implementation decade. Take your place in the village council as you face a challenging task under a tight deadline. Engage your peers, bring out your inner creativity, and define your village’s pathway as you reflect on the importance of communication, collaboration, and the SDG principles.
🎯 Description: To conclude the first day of the Retreat, the communication campus will serve to experiment with new ways of communicating around the Power of We, with the participation of members of the World Secretariat and UCLG Sections.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
🎯 Description: This is a unique chance for the Local4Action HUBs initiatives to meet and exchange with each other - and for initiatives that are paving the way to become a Local4Action HUB to witness the process first-hand and start engaging in our community. The session will also be a space to jointly reflect on our process so far while identifying the next steps moving forward, so we can keep this global movement rolling to promote a more sustainable, fair, and just way of living driven by the local and regional government constituency.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
For all participants. Special focus on the UCLG Network.
⬇️ You will find below the different sessions that will take place on our second day, which will be the Assembly day built around a conversation with UCLG Sections on general priorities and regional visions.
In parallel to the different sessions, we offer you the possibility to attend our UCLG Networking Hub (on-site) to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone or connect with a colleague or a dear friend you haven't seen in a while. And if you attend our Retreat remotely, we have prepared for you some interesting programs on our UCLG TV (online)
Workshop. Jointly organized with the FMDV.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎯 Description: Access to finance is essential for local and regional governments (LRGs) to take a bold and active part in the implementation of global agendas. The localisation of financing, an urgency that has escalated with the COVID-19 pandemic, is a core priority of UCLG’s action agenda. The strategy formalised in 2018 was renewed in 2021 in collaboration with the Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV) and led to the drafting of a "Global Action Framework on Localising Financing". As part of this strategy, the UCLG World Secretariat, its regional sections and FMDV have taken several initiatives and developed a number of tools, instruments and services to provide concrete support to LRGs to increase their knowledge and action capacities on the topic of sustainable finance, notably based on peer-to-peer exchanges and partnerships with practitioners. Among these tools and services, we can find: the World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) introducing subnational government finances, the Local Finance Knowledge Hub, the FMDV-AFD Campus webinars, the coaching, match making sessions and investment forum. The aim of the workshop is to introduce participants to the main features of the tools and services offered by UCLG and FMDV to provide information, knowledge and capacity building on local finances, and discuss their outreach and impact.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: FMDV and UCLG teams will present the tools and services available to the LRG constituency and UCLG network regarding local finances. All participants, including UCLG sections, partners, LRGs and their associations, are invited to give their inputs on how to improve the tools or their impact and how they wish to participate in the activities planned for 2022.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment
▶️ MOOC - Introduction to Subnational Government Finances
▶️ Local Finance Knowledge Hub
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Strategy on Localising Financing for Sustainable Urbanisation and Territorial Development
▶️ Global Action Framework on Localising Financing
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎯 Description: The representation of subnational levels of government in global reporting efforts on the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs has grown exponentially, yet still needs to be reinforced to accelerate action if we are to uphold our global commitments. Over the past two years, local governments associations (LGAs) from 14 countries, from all regions, have reported on the progress in localizing the SDGs through Voluntary Subnational Reviews (VSRs). And this year, 10 more LGAs from all over the world are in the process of developing their own VSRs, learning from the experiences acquired since 2020. While Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) are developed by individual LRGs, VSRs are produced by LGAs based on inputs from their members, therefore offering a country-wide analysis of subnational efforts for SDG implementation and reinforcing LGAs' capacities to propel SDG localization.
The aim of the workshop is to exchange on all UCLG sections’ experiences in the mobilization and support of LGAs who have developed, or are developing VSRs, whose active engagement is crucial for articulating this global movement. As well as to open the conversation on how to enhance the global effort to strengthen bottom-up reporting efforts and promote synchronization with the commissions and working groups of our network.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ All VSRs published in 2020-2021
Lunch break
Conversation with UCLG Sections on general priorities and regional visions & definition of initial components of the Track.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: The UCLG Assembly Track Process is the space for UCLG Sections and continental groups to define their policy-making priorities and align them with the overall work of the World Organization.
The Assembly session in the Retreat will aim at bringing together representatives from the UCLG Sections to define the general priorities for the coming years and bring together their vision for the Assembly Process. Representatives from the UCLG Sections are expected to identify the critical issues that will guide the policy of their region, and how these priorities influence the overall strategy of UCLG
This first preparatory gathering of the Assembly Track will allow to identify current contexts, assess how priorities are evolving and what has changed since Durban and be the first step towards the consultations that will take place from March-April 2022.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
Break
Stocktaking Plenary.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: Come and breathe in the outcomes of the debates held throughout the day! Our stocktaking plenary will allow participants to gather their thoughts about the meetings and think ahead.
🎯 Description: Building on the partnership between UCLG and the UN SDG Action Campaign, the “Flip the Script” Campaign wants to contribute to intensifying the already vibrant engagement of local and regional governments with the 2030 Agenda.
The working session will be aimed at presenting the Flip the Script campaign and its potential for the members of our constituency. This will be followed by a co-creation exercise to define the core messaging of the campaign, around the narrative of local and regional governments as drivers of innovation for the implementation of the SDGs
For all participants. With special focus on dialogue with partners.
⬇️ You will find below the different sessions that will take place on our third day, which will be the Town Hall day The Town Hall process will take central stage in discussions exploring how to shape the future social contract.
In parallel to the different sessions, we offer you the possibility to attend our UCLG Networking Hub (on-site) to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone or connect with a colleague or a dear friend you haven't seen in a while. And if you attend our Retreat remotely, we have prepared for you some interesting programs on our UCLG TV (online)
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎯 Description: The UCLG Learning Forum gathers multiple Learning actors and initiatives, synchronizing efforts, exchanging methodologies and facilitating peer learning among UCLG members and partners - concretely applying, locally, the network’s global political priorities.
In this session, the UCLG Learning Team invites network practitioners and partners to think and build together the next concrete steps towards a common Learning Agenda towards the UCLG World Congress in Daejeon.
During an interactive and playful session, participants will share their progress and challenges in developing initiatives, cooperation and methodologies around peer-to-peer learning and self-paced learning opportunities, and benefit from peers’ advice and experiences.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
Workshop.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: While human rights principles have gained more recognition among local and regional governments since the pandemic, so called human rights cities are consolidating their role to guide policy innovation and collective action to protect their citizens' rights through an international campaign "10, 100, 1000 human rights cities and territories" and a revision process of UCLG Charter Agenda on human rights in the city. They hope to be a source of inspiration and solidarity for all local and regional governments to move forward fairer in the post-pandemic era but also to make local governments gaining a seat in the global human rights conversation.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
Lunch break
Joint Plenary of the four Town Halls: Global Commons / Trust and Government / Climate and Culture / Caring Communities.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: Give shape to the future social contract and provide your direct inputs to its main pillars: People, Planet, Government. As we head towards our UCLG World Congress hosted in Daejeon in October this year, we as constituency will continue to give life to a new social contract through our Pact for the Future, taking into account the elements of the UN Common Agenda.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
Break
Plenary follow-up.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: Come and breathe in the outcomes of the debates held throughout the day! Our stocktaking plenary will allow participants to gather their thoughts about the meetings and think ahead.
🎯 Description: Be part of the honeycomb co-creation! Join us for an engaging exercise, using the #LearningWithUCLG games developed around the Doughnut Economics model and the Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible Cities. Reflect on the role of social, cultural, and economic policies to build resilient communities, and learn how to use the six guiding principles of Cities For All as you co create a honeycomb mosaic of local actions.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: Building on the Durban Declaration, which was approved in 2019, and in which we expressed our resolve to become a municipalist movement driven by equality and local democracy, UCLG has taken strides to evolve and incorporate its concepts of peace.
2022 offers the opportunity to bring together aspects of peacebuilding that were already a part of our Organization and develop them in a single process that can be mainstreamed in our agenda, culminating in an all-encompassing Forum on Cities and Territories of Peace in 2023, and into an integral part of the renewal of our strategic priorities from 2022-2028.
The session will also contribute to developing a roadmap for peace that can be further mainstreamed within the work of UCLG, influencing the political processes towards the UCLG World Summit and beyond, and becoming an important component of the Pact for the Future of Humanity.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ Local Governments and a Culture of Peace, the UCLG Peace Prize publication 2021
▶️ Selection prodecure of the 2022 UCLG Peace Prize
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Security policy and human rights at the municipal level (policy paper from the city of Vienna, available only in German)
For all participants. With special focus on the local and regional government networks of the Global Taskforce.
⬇️ You will find below the different sessions that will take place on our fourth day, which will be the Global Taskforce day The Global Taskforce will hold its annual meeting, focusing specifically on the Common Agenda defined by the UN Secretary General.
▶️ Agenda of the day
In parallel to the different sessions, we offer you the possibility to attend our UCLG Networking Hub (on-site) to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone or connect with a colleague or a dear friend you haven't seen in a while. And if you attend our Retreat remotely, we have prepared for you some interesting programs on our UCLG TV (online)
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Italian.
🎯 Description: Against the background of the GTF Day, this workshop aims to advance the process of co-creation of the Lampedusa Charter by expanding the conversation with our sister organizations and partners. Following the Commitment of the GTF to include migration within its thematic priorities, this workshop will invite members to join the shift towards a municipalist call for renewed governance of human mobility that protects dignity, provides opportunities and fosters a new understanding of citizenship based on neighbourhood. The session will include the screening of the Not a Border Tale documentary and an interactive exercise about the guiding principles of the Lampedusa Charter.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Italian.
🎯 Description: Working session to contribute to the ongoing discussions of a feminist municipal movement, share plans of the constituency this year, the main challenges and specific perspectives of the movement in each of the global regions.
As the GTF works in the elaboration of the 2022 SDG Localization Report to be presented at the High-Level Political Forum in June, participants will provide concrete examples and suggestions that should be incorporated in the collective publication.
Join us to share your take on feminist municipal movement and contribute to our collective efforts towards gender equality!
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
Lunch break
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Italian.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: The Annual Meeting of the GTF traditionally takes place within the context of the UCLG Retreat in which members of the GTF are invited to attend all sessions throughout the week.
This year's annual meeting will be a “better normal”. Beyond looking at the different components of the GTF's joint work programme and the international agenda of 2022, a special focus will be given to the UN Common Agenda and the New Urban Agenda during the session.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: Representatives from REGIONS4, CLGF, ORU-FOGAR, FMDV, ALAS, Platforma + CEMR, CUF, GCoM, C40, RCN, AIMF, ICLEI, etc.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Briefing note
▶️ Concept note on development cooperation
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ New Urban Agenda
▶️ New Urban Agenda Platform
▶️ UN Common Agenda
▶️ GTF UN75 Visioning report
▶️ GOLD Localizing Report
Break
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Italian.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: Get the opportunity to provide your direct inputs to the review and follow-up of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda six years after its adoption in Quito. This Plenary will be critical in building up inputs from the constiuency towards the UN High-Level Meeting on the New Urban Agenda taking place on 28 April 2022 and where the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments will convene.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ New Urban Agenda
▶️ New Urban Agenda Platform
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Our Habitat III achievements
Reception at the Global Home of Local and Regional Governments
UCLG network, key partners and political leadership.
⬇️ You will find below the different sessions that will take place on our fifth and last day, which will be the Local4action day, which will focus on the equality agenda of our movement. This day will also be dedicated to a meeting of the UCLG Presidency.
In parallel to the different sessions, we offer you the possibility to attend our UCLG Networking Hub (on-site) to sit down and enjoy a coffee alone or connect with a colleague or a dear friend you haven't seen in a while. And if you attend our Retreat remotely, we have prepared for you some interesting programs on our UCLG TV (online)
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Turkish.
🎯 Description: Meeting of the enlarged UCLG Presidency.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Agenda and confirmed participants
▶️ UCLG statement on the attack in Ukraine
Lunch break
The Equality Agenda.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish.
Live captioning available in English
🎯 Description: The Durban Declaration affirms that UCLG is an equality-driven movement and in accordance, the World Organization has aligned its priorities to ensure that leaving no one and no place behind is at the heart of our political but also the technical agenda that our network deploys.
It is in this light that the research work organized around our triannual report GOLD has been devoted, since the discussions at our Tangier Retreat in 2020, to analyzing the pathways for urban and territorial equality. This work has been done through a partnership with KNOW, articulating a large-scale collaborative process. With the focus on communing, caring, connecting, renaturing, prospering and democratizing, findings have been discussed with the UCLG Policy Councils and reflections will be published on the occasion of the Congress in Daejeon, contributing to the UCLG strategy.
The High Level debate aims at sharing findings with the UCLG Leadership and partners as part of the co-creation process towards the Pact for the Future in which the World Organization will reflect its ideas on the new social contract that should underpin sustainable development.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept note
▶️ Our Transformative Commitments
▶️ Working papers - GOLD VI
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ UCLG Women
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish.
Live captioning available in English
