2021 World Council

Session organized in the framework of Urban October, under the leadership of the UCLG Policy Council on Territorial Multilevel Governance and Sustainable Financing.

🎯 Description: The Policy Council on Territorial, Multilevel Governance and Sustainable Financing addresses key priority issues for the World Organization, including governance, decentralization and territorial cohesion. Building on these and on the outcome of the meetings held in early 2021, the meeting of the Policy Council organized in the framework of Urban October will explore critical topics that could feed into the UCLG Pact for the Future. These include: emergency multilevel governance, the relationship between multilevel governance and capacity building, transparency and local democracy as tools to strengthening governance, tax justice, the governance of recovery plans and fiscal stimulus packages, as well as the potential of national financial markets and the catalytic role of Subnational Development Banks. 

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

💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.

‍🎤 Some of the voices you will hear: 

• Frédéric Audras, Head of the Urban Development, Planning and Housing Department, French Development Agency (AFD)
• Cemal Baş, City Councillor of Keçiören
• Rudi Borrmann, Lead Open Government Partnership Local (OGP Local)
• Ahmed Aziz Diallo, Mayor of Dori
• Mireia Huerta, International Officer, Association of Catalan Municipalities (ACM)
• Emilio Jatón, Mayor of Santa Fe
• Pablo Jurado, President of CONGOPE, Vice-President of UCLG for the Forum of Regions
• Olivia Paton, Head of European and International Strategy Office, Barcelona Provincial Council
• Serafin Pazos-Vidal, Head of Brussels Office, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
• Benoît Pilet, Deputy Mayor of Angers
• Robert Ramsay, Senior Researcher, Canada Union of Public Employees (PSI)
• Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda, City Councillor for Internationalization and Cooperation, Madrid
• Joanne Vanderheyden, Mayor of the Municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)

📌 Key Documents:

▶️ Concept Note | Agenda

▶️ UCLG, Metropolis, LSE Cities, Multilevel Emergency Governance: Enabling Adaptive and Agile Responses

▶️ UCLG, Metropolis, LSE Cities, Financing Emergencies in Cities and Regions: Ongoing lessons from the pandemic

▶️ Proceedings of the first preparatory meeting of the Malaga Coalition

🔗 Related resources of interest:

▶️ PSI, Tax Justice Network, Global Alliance for Tax Justice and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, State of Tax Justice Report 2020

▶️ Resilience Learning Module: Fundamentals of Resilient Governance and Development - Localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR

📺 UCLG TV:

▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.