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Water sanitation - 04/03/2019
On the occasion of the World Water Day, UCLG reaffirm that access to water is a fundamental right everywhere, and it needs to be claimed as such even in the richest countries and in cities with sufficient resources, where too many people still suffer from very limited access to water and remain... (+)
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Localizing SDGs - 04/03/2019
From the 25th to 27th of February a high level international meeting was held in Seville (Spain) to discuss the localization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This meeting, planned by the governments of Spain, Ecuador and Cape Verde in collaboration with the United Nations Local Initiative 2030 as well as with the participation of the Global Taskforce (GTF) of Local and Regional Governments was attended by the UN Assistant Secretary-General and proved to be an important milestone ahead of the high-level political forums to be held in New York in July and September.
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LocalizingSDGs - 18/02/2019
On February 12th and 14th, during UCLG’s 2019 Retreat, UCLG’s regional sections and committees, local and regional governments, and members of the Global taskforce participated in two workshops to enhance collective impact of monitoring and reporting on the localization of SDGs from the perspective of local and regional governments. The Retreat was the opportunity to collectively reflect upon the progress made, take stock of ongoing experiments, share lessons learned and lay the groundwork towards the HLPF Summit and the UCLG World Congress.
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crises, local governments - 21/02/2019
On February 8th, the Global Alliance for Urban Crises officially launched a series of knowledge products at Humanitarian Networking and Partnerships Week 2019 in Geneva. The products were produced by multi-constituency Alliance Working Groups, and focus on the key objectives, including urban profiling... (+)
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CULTURE SUMMIT, Agenda 21, Agenda 21 for Culture - 21/02/2019
Since its founding Congress in Paris (2004) and especially after the approval at the Congress in Mexico City (2010) of the declaration "Culture, the fourth pillar of sustainable development", UCLG has always placed culture at the centre of its political agenda. Following the success of the first two UCLG Culture Summits (Bilbao, 2015; and Jeju, 2017), and taking into account the growing importance of culture in the framework of sustainable cities, UCLG's Executive Bureau decided to convene a third UCLG Culture Summit in 2019.
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UBUNTU, UCLG Retreat - 19/02/2019
The Executive Bureau in Strasbourg agreed to set up an Advisory System for UCLG that should support UCLG facing global issues, and help the international development system understand the institutional implications of achieving genuine localization as well as help shift the role of local governments within this system.
Under the name “UBUNTU”, the South African notion that sees the community as the building blocks of humanity, the Advisory Board came to life, with the aim of playing a role as intermediaries for the Presidency. Said advisory board would further provide pointed advice in various fields, as well as informal and formal support on the various dimensions of the international development agenda, and helping define the organization going into the future. The Group can also help ensure that regional specificities and nuances become integrated into the global work of the World Organization.
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