2021 World Council
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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 (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.
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 (External link) (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 (External link)
▶️ UCLG, Metropolis, LSE Cities, Multilevel Emergency Governance: Enabling Adaptive and Agile Responses (External link)
▶️ UCLG, Metropolis, LSE Cities, Financing Emergencies in Cities and Regions: Ongoing lessons from the pandemic (External link)
▶️ Proceedings of the first preparatory meeting of the Malaga Coalition (External link)
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ PSI, Tax Justice Network, Global Alliance for Tax Justice and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, State of Tax Justice Report 2020 (External link)
▶️ Resilience Learning Module: Fundamentals of Resilient Governance and Development - Localizing the Sendai Framework for DRR (External link)
📺 UCLG TV:
▶️ Special Policy Council Channel (External link) 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 (External link) (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 (External link)
▶️ Report of the "Geneva Meeting on Local Governments and Human Rights" (External link)
▶️ Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City (External link)
▶️ Inclusive and Accessible Cities Policy Paper (External link)
🔗 Related resources of interest:
▶️ Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible Cities (External link)
▶️ Policy paper on inclusive and accessible cities (External link)
▶️ Advancing the human rights partnership and recognition agenda with the UN (External link)
▶️ Thematic background section on the right to the city (CSIPDHR) (External link)
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Local Citizenship & Migration - Fostering the Right to the City for all (External link)
▶️ Peer Learning Note: Urban migration - Strengthening cooperation with civil society (External link)
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