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UCLG Town Hall

About this process

The UCLG Town Hall is the space for dialogue and interaction between different internationally organized civil society constituencies and the political leadership of the local and regional governments constituency to jointly define global policies. Driven by civil society, it allows different international stakeholders to collaborate in the definition of policy priorities and the localization of the global agendas.

The Town Hall culminates in a corpus of integrated policy recommendations resulting from a consultation with other stakeholders and offering both bottom-up continent and region-specific priorities.

The contributions of the first generation of the UCLG Town Hall process were integrated into the Durban Declaration and into the daily work of the World Organization in its different areas (policy, advocacy, learning and research).

The 2022 UCLG Town-Hall renewed the structured dialogue between the local and regional governments constituency and internationally organized civil society around four selected topics: The Global Commons, Trust and Government, Climate and Culture, and Caring Systems. The 2022 process is strengthened by 3 cross-cutting caucuses (Youth, Feminism, and Accessibility) and the participation of UCLG international partners and UBUNTU Advisors. The subjects of the Town Hall are directly linked to UCLG's Pact for the Future and its three axes: People, Planet and Government.