2021 World Council

Session organized in the framework of Urban October, under the leadership of the UCLG Policy Council on Opportunies for All, Culture and City Diplomacy: Keys to Sustainable Development and Peace.

🎯 Description: The Policy Council on Opportunities for All, Culture and City Diplomacy addresses, apart from the titular issues, roles such as transparency and local economic development. Building on the meetings in 2021, the meeting of the Policy Council in the framework of Urban October will introduce critical topics such as connecting in a stronger manner the peace and the equality agendas; exploring the future of work and the challenges of the ecological transition, and calling for culture to be acknowledged as essential in building back better and indispensable to ensure sustainable development and peace.

Link to register for the session (External link) (required to participate).

💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.

‍🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: 

• Abdallah Anati, Executive Director, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities (APLA)
• Faola Hodaj, Director of Innovation, City of Tirana
• Catharina Isberg, Library Director, Helsingborg City Libraries
• Milou Jansen, Coordinator of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights
• Fiona O’Connor, Digital Literacy Expert from the Toronto Library
• Xabier Ochandiano, Councillor of Economic Development, Business and Labour of Bilbao
• Féthi Riah, City Councillor of Grande-Synthe
• José Manuel Ribeiro, Mayor of Valongo
• Andre Viola, President of the Aude Provincial Council

📌 Key Documents:

▶️ Concept note | Agenda (External link)

▶️ UCLG Policy Document on Development Cooperation (External link)

▶️ 2020 Rome Charter (External link)

▶️ Culture and Peace. The Mexico City Declaration (External link)

▶️ The Izmir Declaration: Culture Shapes the Future of Humanity (External link)

▶️ Third Forum of Cities And Territories of Peace - Declaration of Mexico City (External link)

🔗 Related resources of interest:

▶️ Policy Council "Opportunities for All, Culture and City Diplomacy". Briefing (External link)

▶️ Learning Module 4: Localizing the SDGs through Decentralized Cooperation (External link)

📺 UCLG TV:

▶️ Special Policy Council Channel (External link) with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.