Announcements
Announcements
Localizing SDGs - 22/07/2020
The world organization United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and the Barcelona Provincial Council, through the Observatory for Decentralized Cooperation and UCLG Learning, are launching an online training under the name "Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Tools for Local Transformation".
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Announcements
LocalizingSDGs - 20/07/2020
Accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) necessarily requires that local and regional voices are fully made a part of national reporting efforts. Moreover, subnational reporting has proven to be a tool with huge potential not only to ground monitoring in local realities, but also to increase local ownership and reinforce multilevel dialogue.
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HLPF - 17/07/2020
Throughout the 2020 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), our delegation of over 100 mayors and regional leaders called for the importance of localizing 2030 Agenda in the recovery of the pandemic. Only through the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the core of our efforts will we be able to curb the increased inequalities that the pandemic has highlighted, and thus be on track to build more equal, resilient, and sustainable societies.
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- 17/07/2020
The Third Local and Regional Governments’ Forum, co-organized by the Global Taskforce and UN-DESA, UN-Habitat, UNDP, and the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, took place within the framework of the 2020 High-Level Political Forum. With over 30 speakers, including Tijjani Muhammad Bande, President of the 74th UN General Assembly; Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Liu Zhenmin; Undersecretary General of the UN and Executive Director of UN-Habitat Maimunah Mohd. Sharif; Mahmoud Mohieldin, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, representatives from national governments and local and regional governments. The session counted on over 300 participants.
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Finanzas locales, Local Finance - 17/07/2020
Over the last four months, local and regional governments, their associations and partners have expressed their deep concern regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on local and regional governments’ finance. The following provides a brief overview of some of the initiatives, events and information produced on the subject, that have been carried out by UCLG members and partners to analyse the impacts of the outbreak on local and regional governments’ financial ecosystem and outline key policy priorities to address them in the short and longer term.
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uhc2030, health, local governments, HLPF - 16/07/2020
In a moment of urgency, with a global pandemic putting to the test our health and governance systems, the municipal movement and the movement for universal health care held a dialogue to discuss the importance of universal health coverage in the wake of the most important crisis of the 21st century.
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