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| Cités et Gouvernements Locaux Unis (in French) Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales Unidos (in Spanish) | |
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 UCLG Presidium during 2013 World Congress in Morocco, co-chaired by President Kadir Topbaş (Istanbul) & Treasurer Fathallah Oualalou (Rabat). | |
| Abbreviation | UCLG (in English) CGLU (in French) CGLU (in Spanish) |
|---|---|
| Formation | 5 May 2004[1] |
| Founded at | Paris[1] |
| Merger of | IULA, FMCU, Metropolis |
| Type | International umbrella organization |
| Purpose | Representing and defending the interests of local governments on the world stage[2] |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
Region served | Worldwide |
| Methods | Advocacy & dissemination of best practices |
| Fields | Sustainable development goals:
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Membership | over 240 000 members[3] |
Official language | English, French, Spanish[4] |
Secretary General | Emilia Saiz |
President | Uğur İbrahim Altay[5] |
Co-President | Fatimetou Abdel Malick, Johnny Araya, Zhenis Kassymbek, Bheke Stofile, [Berry Vrbanovic]], Ye Niuping[6] |
Special Envoys | Ada Colau & Carlos Martínez Mínguez[6] |
Vice-President | Oumarou Dogari Moumoun, Ashok Kumar Byanju Shrestha, Aysen Nikolayev, Carola Gunnarsson, Yücel Yilmaz, Fernando Gray, Scott Pearce, Claudia López, Paola Pabón[7] |
Board of directors | UCLG Executive Bureau |
Main organ | UCLG General Assembly |
| Subsidiaries | 9 UCLG Sections[8] & 19 Cross-sectional bodies:[9]
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| Affiliations | Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments,[10] United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities & UN ECOSOC's Development Cooperation Forum[11] |
| Website | www |
| Remarks | Partners: Association of Netherlands Municipalities, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Compact of Mayors, European Commission, ICLEI, OECD, UNICEF, United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Water, UN Women, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, World Bank, World Water Council |
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is an umbrella international organisation for cities, local and regional governments, and municipal associations throughout the world that is concerned with representing and defending the interests of local governments on the world stage.[12]
The organization achieved inclusion of Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities into Agenda 2030,[13][14] aggregates best local practices into action plans,[15][16] provides regular updates on the progress and proposals to High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.[17][18][19] Its day-to-day activities include hosting meetings of mayors and other local and regional leaders,[20][21] running joint projects with partners,[22] organizing international peer-to-peer training on local policies and practices,[23][24] and advocacy for the interests of local and regional governments at the UN[25][26][27]
Since founding in 2004,[28][29] UCLG is headquartered in Barcelona (the World Secretariat, Metropolis and UCLG Regions), with its regional offices in Brasilia, Brussels, Istanbul, Jakarta, Kazan, La Paz, Ottawa & Rabat.[30][31][32] It is the largest organization of sub-national governments in the world, with over 240,000 members in over 140 UN Member States and understands itself as the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, de facto representing over half the world's population across seven world regions: Africa, Asia-Pacific, Euroasia, Europe, Middle East & West Asia, Latin America and North America.[33][34]
The organisation's work programme focuses on:[2]
- Increasing the role and influence of local government and its representative organisations in global governance;
- Becoming the main source of support for democratic, effective, innovative local government close to the citizen;
- Ensuring an effective and democratic global organisation
- ^ a b New international organisation to champion the interest of cities
- ^ a b UCLG: About
- ^ Who we are borchure @ UCLG official website
- ^ Art.85 of the UCLG Constitution
- ^ https://twitter.com/UCLG_Presidency UCLG Twitter: Uğur İbrahim Altay, Mayor of Konya, takes on the role of governing President of UCLG]
- ^ a b Presidency
- ^ Vice-Presidency
- ^ UCLG Sections
- ^ UCLG Cross-sectional institutions
- ^ Local and Regional Governments call for accelerated action to localize the SDGs at the 2019 HLPF
- ^ Local and regional governments prepare the UN Development Cooperation Forum
- ^ "Relations with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and draft cooperation agreement between UNESCO and that organization - UNESCO Digital Library". Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". UCLG - United Cities and Local Governments. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "Effectively Influencing Value Chain Governance and Implementing SDG 14: 'Life Below Water'". 2017-09-12. doi:10.14217/9781848599642-8-en (inactive 2024-02-01). Retrieved 2022-05-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of February 2024 (link) - ^ "Roadmap for localizing the SDGs. Implementation and monitoring at subnational level" (PDF). sustainabledevelopment.un.org/.
- ^ "Chapter 1: Cities and a territorial approach to the SDGs". sdgcities.guide/. 19 August 2016.
- ^ Niklasson, Lars (2016-06-02). Pierre, Jon (ed.). "Challenges and Reforms of Local and Regional Governments in Sweden". Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665679.013.24.
- ^ Hub, IISD's SDG Knowledge. "UCLG Shares Guidance on VNRs and VLRs | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD". Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ Towards the localization of the SDGs.pdf (PDF), retrieved 2022-05-26
- ^ Humpert, Nicole (2018-09-05). "Faire Schule meets SDG-Labor". ZEP – Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik. 2018 (2): 38. doi:10.31244/zep.2018.02.09. ISSN 1434-4688. S2CID 240186468.
- ^ "UCLG World Council and Executive Bureau - Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "5. Housing: Urban Housing Markets", Making Cities Work, Princeton University Press, pp. 123–157, 2009-12-31, doi:10.1515/9781400833153-009, ISBN 9781400833153, retrieved 2022-05-26
- ^ "UCLG publishes the SDGs Learning Module 3 on reporting - Relacions internacionals - Diputació de Barcelona". www.diba.cat. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "Fostering Knowledge-Creating Communities", Collaborative Learning, Reasoning, and Technology, Routledge, pp. 51–74, 2005-09-07, doi:10.4324/9780203826843-8, ISBN 9780429238857, retrieved 2022-05-26
- ^ "Partners". Cities For All: Global Compact on Inclusive and Accessible Cities. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "SRSGs remarks at the Meeting of UCLG's Policy Council on Safer, Resilient and Sustainable Cities, Capable of Facing Crises". www.undrr.org. 12 February 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "Barcelona intercambia con otros gobiernos locales experiencias y visiones sobre vivienda y sobre tecnologías digitales en el contexto de crisis sanitaria". Barcelona Ciudad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "Relations with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and draft cooperation agreement between UNESCO and that organization - UNESCO Digital Library". Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "UCLG: A local perspective on global issues". CEMAS. 2020-12-24. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "UCLG Africa | Department of Economic and Social Affairs". www.un.org. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "United Cities and Local Governments Middle East West Asia | Anna Lindh Foundation". www.annalindhfoundation.org. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "UCLG Africa to establish East Africa regional office in Nairobi". EnviroNews Nigeria. 2022-03-14. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "United Cities and Local Governments World Summit and its meaning for the interaction of cities with international law and governance". www.asser.nl. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "UCLG". Cities Alliance. Retrieved 2022-05-26.