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100 years ago one of the Founding Organizations of UCLG, International Union of Local Authorities, held its first Congress in Gent Belgium. This Union became the ‘nerve centre’ for city international relations and marked the beginning of the international municipal movement.     In the framework of the preparation for this...

The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders will be a special event: the first UCLG Summit to be held in Africa, with Rabat as the host city. It will be an opportunity to highlight the potential of this continent, to learn first-hand of the major democratic and local governance reforms that have been carried out in Morocco in recent years and to pay tribute to this international city with important cultural heritage and legacy.

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Elected representatives of local and regional governments were welcomed by the Vice President of ECOSOC and UN Secretary General Representative in New York. The UN Secretary General sent the following message to participants: "I welcome the creation of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for 2015 and towards Habitat III".

Are you aware that in 2011, cities with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants accounted for about 50% of the world urban population? Cities with populations ranging between 500,000 and 1 million were equivalent to 10.1 % of the world urban population. In conclusion, cities with fewer than 1 million inhabitants...

Following the first Forum of Regions in Dakar, regional representatives will meet once again in Lyon, France on 6-7 June 2013 in conjunction with the Executive Bureau of UCLG and advocate for enhancing their visibility and recognition in the global agenda. This Forum will...

The official 4th session held in the framework of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction’s fourth session took place from 20th to 21st may  in Geneva with participants from several countries and numerous partners of the Platform including over fifty local elected representatives representing...

UCLG Secretary General Josep Roig arrived in Doha to participate in the 16th Conference of The Arab Town Organisation (ATO) held from May 14 to 16 and entitled "Cities and The Challenges of Sustainable Development”. UCLG and ATO towards a new development agenda The role played by Arab cities...

At the annual conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD),held in June 2012 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Municipality of Cascais was elected unanimously as the international ambassador for participatory democracy of the year 2013, and therefore elected as the president...

Communication of the Commission: “Empowering Local Authorities in partner  countries for enhanced governance and more effective development outcomes”  PLATFORMA welcomes the adoption of the new Commission Communication on local and regional authorities in partner countries...

The Committee on Culture of UCLG organizes an important meeting in Lille (France) on 26-27-28 June 2013. We have key issues to share. The meeting in Lille provides the opportunity to discuss our priorities for the next years with time: (a) key presentations of cities engaged in the local...

This year the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has offered to host the annual UCLG CIB Working Group meeting (13-14 June, Ottawa).  The meeting will give an insight in how the Canadidan municipal expertise is used in international cooperation and donors (both Canadian and multilateral)...