Porto Alegre 2015 - Executive Bureau

The Executive Bureau of UCLG is responsible for initiating proposals and carrying out the decisions of the World Council. It is in charge of the World Organisation’s administrative and financial management. Composed of 115 members, it meets twice a year and usually gathers around 200 participants. 

The first session of the UCLG Executive Bureau for 2015 will take place in Porto Alegre from 10 to 12 June 2015

The way forward for the preparation local and regional governments’ contributions to the Habitat III process, the recommendations for the Financing for Development Conference, updates on the outcomes of the Post-2015 process and the Climate Change Summit will be on the agenda.

The Bureau will be informed of the peer-to-peer exchanges carried out among members and of the efforts made to strengthen the network and the UCLG membership in different parts of the world.

Porto Alegre is also seen as a key occasion to gather the Latin American members, to debate their inputs on the above agendas and provide guidance on the upcoming triennial UCLG Congress, to take place in Bogotá in 2016.  

Note: The UCLG Executive Bureau meetings are closed meetings. Members of UCLG are welcome to contact the World Secretariat for additional information through the following email address: [email protected]

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