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Housing - 10/12/2018
On 4-5 December, the City of Vienna hosted the “Housing for All” Conference, a forum to present a European Action Plan to implement concrete policies for the right to housing. The gathering also kicked-off a campaign by European cities to put housing high on the agenda of the upcoming European election. Vienna, Barcelona and Lisbon, as promoters of the initiative within the Cities for Housing global movement, saw the support of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, Leilani Farha. The Conference also offered the chance to participants to have a first-hand impression of the Vienna model of social housing as a public service.
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Transparency, Transparencia, gobierno abierto, Open Government - 04/12/2018
9th December was declared by the United Nations General Assembly as International Anti-Corruption Day to raise awareness of the negative effects of corruption, prevent it and fight it. Local and regional governments from all over the world reaffirm the Hangzhou Commitment endorsed during the 2017 UCLG World Council and renew their commitment to work towards more transparent, accountable and participative cities and territories. To render this Commitment concrete UCLG launched the UCLG Community of Practice on Transparency and Open Government.
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Learning, UCLG Learning Agenda, Localizing SDGs - 17/12/2018
United Cities and Local Governments and the UCLG Capacity and Institution Building (CIB) Working Group promote a series of webinars in December 2018, addressed to the National Associations of Local Governments, and their reviews on the progress of localizing the SDGs.
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Intermediary City, LocalizingSDGs - 29/11/2018
UCLG in collaboration with the Latin American Federation of Cities, Municipalities and Associations of Local Governments (FLACMA), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Association of Municipalities of Bolivia (AMB), organized last April a peer learning event on the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems to highlight the main urban challenges and opportunities in Amazonian cities. A glimpse into the interesting experiences, challenges and opportunities that were shared and discussed during the peer learning event in Riberalta is now online with this publication about “Amazonian Cities. Peer Learning about the sustainable use of territorial ecosystems”.
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Finanzas locales, Finance - 27/11/2018
On November 16, 2018, Local, metropolitan and regional governments as well as representatives of national governments, UN agencies and Development banks gathered in Venice to identify and discuss the existing solutions to face the challenge of how to finance the implementation of the SDGs at local level.
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UCLG Africa, Localizing SDGs - 27/11/2018
Africities is the great municipalist gathering of the African Continent. Held in the Pearl City of Marrakech, in Morocco and organized by the African section of UCLG (UCLG Africa). The event gathered over more than 8,000 participants from 53 countries across the continent and it has been the gathering in which the African municipal movement has tackled, with a hopeful perspective, the most important -and even painful- issues of the Region.
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