2021 World Council
#UCLGMeets Smart cities and territories, pillars of the common agenda
Welcome to our interactive program!
On this page, you will be able to navigate between the different sessions organized in the framework of our UCLG 2021 World Council. You will be able to visit the page of each session, access the links to participate in the virtual meetings, consult the key documents posted online, get to know the different speakers... and so much more!
Program
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 (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
▶️ UCLG Policy Document on Development Cooperation
▶️ 2020 Rome Charter
▶️ Culture and Peace. The Mexico City Declaration
▶️ The Izmir Declaration: Culture Shapes the Future of Humanity
▶️ Third Forum of Cities And Territories of Peace - Declaration of Mexico City
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Policy Council "Opportunities for All, Culture and City Diplomacy". Briefing
▶️ Learning Module 4: Localizing the SDGs through Decentralized Cooperation
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
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.
Session organized in the framework of Urban October, under the leadership of the UCLG Policy Council on the Right to the City and Inclusive Territories.
🎯 Description: The Policy Council on the Right to the City and Inclusive Territories is an essential mechanism to advance UCLG members’ conversation on the right to the city. While continuing to address key priorities such as shifting the narrative around migration and the right to housing, this mechanism is now set to explore a wider emerging agenda: from renewing approaches to equality and accessibility to advancing a new generation of rights. In the framework of Urban October, this meeting of the Policy Council aims to review the issues previously addressed by the Policy Council, such as violence against women and girls, human mobility and universal accessibility along with a series of thematic proposal on how the Council could focus its work towards the Pact for the Future.
Link to register for the session (required to participate).
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Mohamed Aydi, Deputy Mayor of Sfax (Tunisia)
- Armand Béouindé, Mayor of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), President of the Association of Municipalities of Burkina Faso (AMBF), Vice-President of UCLG for Africa
- Zinnur Büyükgöz, Mayor of Gebze (Turkey) (TBC)
- Daniel Camacho, Undersecretary for governance of Bogotá (Colombia)
- Carolina Cosse, Mayor of Montevideo (Uruguay) (TBC)
- Carola Gunnarsson, Mayor of Sala (Sweden), Vice-President of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), Vice-President of UCLG for Europe
- Annie Christelle Limbourg, Deputy Mayor of Libreville (Gabon)
- Salvatore Martello, Mayor of Lampedusa (Italy)
- Maureen Pino Dreckmann, Office of the UN Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility
- Colin Rajah, Coordinator of the Civil Society Action Committee
- Philippe Rio, Mayor of Grigny (France), Co-chair of the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights
- Noraini Roslan, Mayor of Subang Jaya (Malaysia)
- Maite Selva i Huertas, Mayor of Begur and vicepresident of the Catalan
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ Report of the "Geneva Meeting on Local Governments and Human Rights"
▶️ Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City
▶️ Inclusive and Accessible Cities Policy Paper
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible Cities
▶️ Policy paper on inclusive and accessible cities
▶️ Advancing the human rights partnership and recognition agenda with the UN
▶️ Thematic background section on the right to the city (CSIPDHR)
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Local Citizenship & Migration - Fostering the Right to the City for all
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Urban migration - Strengthening cooperation with civil society
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Joint session co-organized in the framework of Metropolis Congress, under the leadership of the UCLG Policy Council on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda.
🎯 Description: The Policy Council on the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda, launched at the UCLG World Council in November 2020, aims to look at the challenges and opportunities associated around the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, a critical corner stone for the development agenda and for the achievement of empowered, inclusive and resilient cities and territories. The meetings held in 2021 allowed the Sherpas and Policy Councilors to discuss concrete proposals for its agenda, based on the mandate inherited from the Quito Outcome Document at Habitat III, acknowledging the role of local and regional governments in the review and follow up of the New Urban Agenda.
Registration: you are invited to register via the website of Metropolis Congress. The link to connect will be shared with participants.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese.
📌 Key Documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ The New Urban Agenda Platform
▶️ The World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments's role in the follow-up of the New Urban Agenda
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Learning Module 2: Territorial Planning and the SDGs
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Organized in the framework of COP 26 Local and Regional Governments Day.
🎯 Description: The Policy Council on Safer, Resilient and Sustainable Cities, Capable of Facing Crises promotes exchanges on the responses to periods of instability, highlighting the role local and regional governments can play in carrying out an ecological transition towards global resilience. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Policy Council considers an extended concept of resilience, which also takes into account the social and community needs, as well as public service provision, economic development and care.
The meeting will take place virtually during the Local and Regional Government's day of the UNFCCC COP26, stressing the links between climate and health, and will address the urgent transformations required to ensure a safe, inclusive and resilient world for current and future generations.
Link to register for the session (required to participate).
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Fatima El Mansouri, Minister of Housing, Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and City Policy of Morocco, Mayor of Marrakech, Morocco
- Fernando Gray, Mayor of Esteban Echeverria, Argentina, Vice-President of Mercociudades
- Sami Kanaan, Member of the Executive Council of the City of Geneva, Switzerland, Chair of the UCLG Permanent Working Group on Territorial Prevention and Management of Crises, Co-Chair of the Policy Council
- Véronique Lamontagne, Director of the International Relations Office, General Direction, Montréal, Canada
- Corinne Lepage, President of the Association of Friends of the Universal Declaration of Humankind Rights
- Sally Loudon, Chief Executive, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
- Ali Manasra, Mayor of Bani Naim Al-Khalil, Palestine
- Greg Munro, Director of Cities Alliance
- Arnaud Ngatcha, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France
- Aisen Nikolaev, Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
- Martina Otto, Head of Cities Unit, UNEP
- Andrew Potts, Coordinator of the Climate Heritage Network
- Ana Román, Director General of the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities (UCCI)
- Yaroslav Shaposhnikov, Head of Vorkuta
- Francisco Toajas, Mayor of Las Cabezas de San Juan, Spain, Co-Chair of the UCLG Committee on Local Economic and Social
- Chingyu Yao, Director-General of Secretariat, New Taipei City Government
📌 Key Documents:
▶️ Concept note | Agenda
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ COP 26 Multilevel Action Pavilion LGMA
▶️ Resilience Learning Module I: Fundamentals of Resilient Governance & Development
▶️ Resilience Learning Module II: Strategies & Actions
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Climate resilience and urban development
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Urban resilience and sustainability
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Policy Council Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Statutory meeting.
🎯 Description: The role of the UCLG Financial Management Committee is to advise the Treasurers and the Governing Bodies on financial matters. It is consulted on the preparation and execution of the budget.
Members of the Financial Management Committee may access the meeting and the background documents through the Members Only Area by clicking the link below (please "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link).
Those who are not members will not be able to access this Members Only Area, however a report of the deliberations of the Financial Management Committee will be delivered during the Executive Bureau and World Council Business Sessions.
Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
Convened by CEMR (by invitation).
Link to register to the session.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Martin.Revault@ccre-cemr.org.
Statutory meeting.
🎯 Description: The Presidency is the political leadership of UCLG and represents the World Organization as a whole. The Presidency regularly meets to discuss the political orientation and institutional issues.
🎯 Description: The first meeting of the World Forum of Regions will promote debates and exchanges on the fundamental role of regions in promoting a territorial vision of global agendas, and how urban, territorial and global phenomena overlap. This inaugural session of the UCLG World Forum of Regions will allow a discussion on the innovative practices and unique contributions around three main thematic blocks that had been defined in consultation with member regional governments, and compose the agreed Roadmap:
- Territories as integrated ecosystems, care at the core for a sustainable and equitable recovery;
- Territories to advance, together for a sustainable future;
- Resilient and green territories, ecological transformation, the key to the future of the planet.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Ms. Ine Baetens, Sustainable Development Expert, Government of Flanders
- Mr. Daniel Chapo, Governor of Inhambane
- Mr. José Chira Larico, Gran Chaco Coordinator
- Mr. Emil Dardak, Vice-Governor, East Java
- Ms. Claudia Andrea García, Director of Planning, Antioquia
- Mr. Pablo Jurado, President of the Region of Imbabura, President of CONGOPE, UCLG Vice-President and President of the Forum of Regions
- Dr. Shipra Narang Suri, Chief, Urban Practices Branch, UN-Habitat
- Mr. Ignacio de la Puerta, Director of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning and Urban Regeneration, Basque Country
- Mr. Rashid Seedat, Executive Director, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
- Ms. Alicia Trejo, International Cooperation and Business Development Representative for Europe & Asia Regions GONGOPE
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Information Note | Agenda
▶️ Forum of Regions Roadmap
▶️ First UCLG World Forum of Region - Concept Note
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Urban Agenda: Innovative territories
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Statutory meeting.
🎯 Description: The Committee on Statutory Affairs is in charge of reviewing any issues concerning the institutional work of the Organization.
Members of the Committee on Statutory Affairs may access the meeting and the background documents through the Members Only Area by clicking the link below (please "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link).
Those who are not members will not be able to access this Members Only Area, however a report of the deliberations of the Committee on Statutory Affairs will be delivered during the Executive Bureau and World Council Business Sessions.
Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
Statutory meeting.
🎯 Description: The Executive Bureau, which gathers twice a year, is composed of 116 political representatives nominated from all world regions. The Bureau is responsible for initiating proposals and carrying out the decisions of the World Council. It is in charge of the World Organization’s administrative and financial management and prepares the ground for the content of the meetings of the World Council. The Bureau also makes recommendations about international processes and policies, and the production of policy papers.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Russian
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Executive Bureau's Members-only digital space 🔐. Members of the Executive Bureau may access further information related to the meeting through this link (to do so, please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Those who are not members will not be able to access this members-only area. Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
▶️ Background documents 🔐. Only available to Members of the Executive Bureau (please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 1. The Urban Dimensions of Inequality and Equality
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 2. Access to quality local public services for all: a precondition to beat inequality
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 3. Socio-spatial inequality and local educational action in the construction of caring cities
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 4. Space-Blind and Place-Based Policy: Initiatives for Fostering Innovation and Growth
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 5. The Urban Informal Economy: Achieving Prospering and Territorial Equality
▶️ GOLD VI Working Paper 6. The right to participate in urban cultural life: from inequalities to equity
🎯 Description: The World Forum of Regions will be an opportunity to share experiences, policies, priorities and proposals to move towards joint action at the international level, based on the perspective of regional territories and governments. The UCLG World Organization, sections and sister networks have combined efforts in the past years to strengthen the engagement and recognition of regional governments in the global context. This session will address the impact of a common international voice of regions across different thematic agendas. Recommendations and joint key messages will be considered to improving collaboration, international presence and to include in the draft outcome declaration of the Forum.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Ms. Kobie Brand, Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI
- Mr. Marc Darder Solé, Jefe del gabinete técnico, Generalitat de Catalunya.
- Mr. Manuel González, Mayor of Outes, Galicia and Researcher University of Santiago de Compostela, Economic development and innovation
- Mr. Rafael Hueso, Director of External Relations, Government of the Basque Country
- Mr. Pablo Jurado, President of CONGOPE, Prefect Province of Imbabura, Vice-President of UCLG and President Forum of Regions UCLG
- Mr. Carles Llorens, Secretary General Oru-Fogar
- Ms. Firdaous Oussidhoum, Special Adviser of the UCLG Secretary General
- Ms. Antonia Sabartes, Coordinator of Forum of Regions UCLG
- Mr. Christian Spahr, Secretary General Assembly of European Regions
- Ms. Natalia Uribe, Secretary General Regions4
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Information Note | Agenda
▶️ Forum of Regions Roadmap
▶️ First UCLG World Forum of Region - Concept Note
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Urban Agenda: Innovative territories
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Open Policy debate organized in conjunction with Smart City Expo World Congress.
🎯 Description: Local and regional governments and our municipalist movement have come to understand the concept of "smart cities", and that of smart territories, as more than the use of technologies to carry out more efficient service provision.
For the municipal movement, this concept has evolved, with the understanding that being "smart" is more than just about having technology and using it, but rather speaks to the potential of using this technology in ways that benefit our communities. Only by harnessing technology with the wellbeing of our communities in mind can we ensure an equitable recovery, and develop the breakthrough scenario that will make our cities and territories pillars of the common agenda identified by the UN Secretary General.
This session will address the different aspects of what it means to develop smart cities and territories in the urban era, building on the need to bridge the urban-rural divide, and shaping technology as a tool to benefit our populations and enabling us to rise up to the challenges of the Common Agenda.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Souad Ben Abderrahim, Mayor of Tunis
- Mohamed Boudra, President of UCLG
- Gissela Chala, Vice Mayor of Quito
- Carola Gunnarsson, Mayor of Sala, First Vice-President of the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), VicePresident of UCLG for Europe
- Emilia Saiz, Secretary General of UCLG
- Berry Vrbanovic, Mayor of Kitchener, Treasurer of UCLG
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note | Agenda
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
🎯 Description: The objective of the “International Award UCLG - Mexico City - Culture 21” is to recognize leading cities and personalities that have distinguished themselves through their contribution to culture as a dimension of sustainable development. The Award reaffirms the leadership of Mexico City in the relationship between culture and sustainable development, and the commitment of UCLG to place culture as a fundamental dimension of sustainable cities through the Agenda 21 for Culture. The Award has two categories: City, Local or Regional Government and Individual.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Russian.
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Ms. Vannesa Bohórquez, Councillor for Culture, Mexico City
- Mr. Nouhoun Diarra, Mayor, Segou
- Mr. Javier Leal, son of Eusebio Leal, Havana’s Oficina del Historiador
- Mr. Daniel Quintero Calle, Mayor of Medellín
- Ms. Vandana Shiva, winner in the category “Personality”
- Mr. José Alfonso Suárez del Real y Aguilera, President of the Jury of the 4th edition of the Award, and Chief of Mayor’s Office, Mexico City
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Agenda
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Statutory meeting.
🎯 Description: The World Council is composed of 342 political representatives nominated from all world regions. It is the principal policy making body of the World Organization. It meets once a year to decide the World Organization’s policies and ensure that general policies are implemented. The World Council takes decisions on internal affairs, such as the approval of the work plan and strategic priorities of the Organization, the approval of the annual budget and accounts submitted by the Executive Bureau, issues related to membership. As per the recommendations of the Executive Bureau, the Council might also be called upon to approve policy papers and publications produced by members of UCLG, and it is informed of any relevant international processes.
The Policy Debate of the World Council will address how the municipal movement can contribute to the UN Secretary-General's Common Agenda, and the ways in which the world needs to transform in the coming yeas with a strong component around the future of human rights.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Russian.
📌 Key documents:
▶️ World Council's Members-only digital space 🔐. Members of the World Council may access further information related to the meeting through this link (to do so, please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Those who are not members will not be able to access this members-only area. Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
▶️ Background documents 🔐. Only available to Members of the World Council (please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
Open Session with UCLG UBUNTU Advisors, organized in the framework of the Smart City Expo World Congress.
🎯 Description: Local and regional governments are endeavouring to build on the lessons learned from the pandemic and the demonstrated essential role they play in protecting our communities and our world.
Public service provision has been the backbone of health measures, caring for people to ensure no one and no place is left behind. For the municipal movement, it has never been clearer than now that a new social contract is needed. One that puts people (feminism), planet (ecologism) and government (municipalism) at the heart of our recovery and achievement of the global agendas. This is the Pact for the Future and its three axes.
This session will count on the presence of the UCLG-UBUNTU Advisors and the UCLG Presidency to explore key issues to be covered by the renewed social contract and provide policy recommendations to guide the development of the Pact in preparation for the great reset.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Russian
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Ana Falú, Professor Emeritus of the National University of Cordoba, UCLG UBUNTU Advisor
- María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, UCLG UBUNTU Advisor
- Jorge Pérez Jaramillo, Advisor of Urban Planning, Government of Antioquia, UCLG UBUNTU Advisor
- Aromar Revi, Founding Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), UCLG UBUNTU Advisor
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Concept Note
▶️ "Our Common Agenda" - Report of the UN Secretary-General
▶️ Accelerating Inclusive Global Cooperation
▶️ UN75 Platform
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Channel with the latest events, campaigns and key interviews.
🎯 Description: 2021 marks five years since the adoption of the New Urban Agenda at the Habitat III Conference held in Quito. Many advances and transformations have been launched since then, particularly on the importance of considering territorial approaches, urban-linkages and multilevel governance.
Our common challenge is a new social contract that places the care of people and the planet at the centre of territorial policies.
This high-level dialogue will address the unique role of regional governments to improve ties and collaborative governance towards a future of solidarity with communities, for present and future generations.
The outcome declaration of the UCLG Forum of Regions will be adopted and launched.
💬 Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Russian
🎤 Some of the voices you will hear:
- Ms. Fatimetou Abdel Malick, President, Regional Council of Nouakchott
- Ms. Dorothée Allain-Dupré, CFE Head of Regional Development and Multi-level Governance Division, OECD
- Mr. Uğur İbrahim Altay, Mayor of Konya & UCLG Co-President
- Mr. Magnus Berntsson, President of the Assembly of European Regions, Regional Minister of Environment and Vice President of the Regional Council, Västra Götaland"
- Ms. Mercè Conesa, Director of the INCASOL, Government of Catalonia
- Mr. Adama Diouf, President of the Regional Council of Kaffrine, Vice-President of ORU FOGAR
- Mr. Aníbal Gaviria, Governor of Antioquia
- Mr. Pablo Jurado, President of the Region of Imbabura, President of CONGOPE, UCLG Vice-President and President of the Forum of Regions
- Mr. Aysen Nikolaev, Head of Sakha Republic, Yakutia, UCLG Vice-President for EURASIA
- Mr. Edgar Pieterse, UCLG UBUNTU Adviser, Director of the African Centre for Cities
- Mr. Luciano Rivas, Governor, Araucanía
- Mr. Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Governor of the Region of Central Macedonia, President of the European Committee of the Regions
- Ms. Marcela Villarreal, Director, Division of Partnerships and UN Collaboration, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
📌 Key documents:
▶️ Information Note | Agenda
▶️ Forum of Regions Roadmap
▶️ First UCLG World Forum of Region - Concept Note
▶️ Declaration of the UCLG World Forum of Regions
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Urban Agenda: Innovative territories
📺 UCLG TV:
