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News

Latest news about the CIB annual meeting (25-27 September)
As you probably know already, the next CIB annual meeting is taking place in Vienna from the 25th until the 27th of September. The CIB Working Group secretariat and the meetings’ hosts, the Austrian Association of Towns...
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Upcoming CIB member activities: two studies and a peer review
In the next months, three exciting CIB activities will take place: i) a study on the gender work of CIB and its members; ii) a study on SDGs in decentralized cooperation; and iii) a peer review in Benin, in which CIB members...
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CIB sessions at the UCLG World Congress!
The CIB Working Group is (co-)organizing several sessions at the 6th UCLG World Congress, which is taking place in Durban from 11-15 November. Read more on the different sessions below. Forum for Presidents and CEOs of Local...
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Policy Developments

2019: An important year for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
In September 2015, the world leaders adopted a new set of development goals, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), developed as a successor of the Millennium Development Goals which ended in 2015. Since then, the progress...
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SDG case study from Los Angeles: the Green New Deal
During the HLPF in New York in July 2019, the city of Los Angeles reported to the world on its progress to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Their Voluntary Local Review touched upon their so-called “L.A.’s...
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Propose side events for the 10th World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi
Participate in the biggest urban event to share with governments and urban practitioners the latest trends in sustainable urban development. This year edition will focus on the theme "Cities of opportunity - Connecting...
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News from Members

Sign up for AL-LAS second Research Award for Internationalizaton of Local Governments
With the aim of promoting professional and academic reflection on issues related to international action taken at a local level, the Euro-Latin American Alliance for Cooperation Among Cities (AL-LAs), in collaboration with...
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VVSG publishes municipal SDG examples
In 2017 and 2018, VVSG published SDG articles in it’s monthly magazine ‘Lokaal’. Each month, one SDG was discussed and illustrated with 3 practical municipal examples: one on the international organisation of the local...
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Two CIB-members are building inclusive green municipalities together: FCM and SALGA's partnership
In the Building Inclusive Green Municipalities (BIGM) program two CIB members, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), are closely working together on stimulating...
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ICLD organizes first Local Democracy Academy
In June 2019, researchers from around the world gathered for the first Local Democracy Academy organized by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) in Umeå, Sweden. The objective of the academy was to...
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Call on Members

Subscribe for Training: Conflict, Rule of Law and Local Security
How can local actors improve human security and state security in conflict-affected areas? What challenges affect the local government’s ability to promote the rule of law? How can citizens be enabled to actively use the...
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Call for Expressions of Interest from Local Governments in Vietnam and India
The International Trade Centre and the Belgian City of Ghent call on interested municipalities/local governments from Vietnam and India to participate in a peer-to-peer learning and technical cooperation...
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Celebrate World Metropolitan Day: sign up before September 7th
The World Metropolitan Day campaign calls on local and regional authorities across the world to organize an event on October 7th to bring together the representatives of the different levels of government that operate in...
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Calendar of events

Sep24
UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under UNGA Auspices
Sep25
CIB annual meeting 2019 - Vienna
Oct07
World Metropolitan Day
Nov11
UCLG World Congress
Dec02
World Forum of Local Economic Development

Publications

VVSG: Inspiration Guide - Integrating the SDGs into your Multi-Annual Policy Plan

This guide provides a number of options and methods to structure your municipal strategic plan from the broad sustainability perspective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs. Find out how to conduct an SDG priority analysis, how to use the SDGs as a guideline when developing goals and actions, how to use local SDG indicators, and much more.

ICLD: Climate change is not the cause, migration is not the problem: Local representation and precarious young farmers leaving Senegal

What are the reasons behind the wave of European-bound emigration from the Sahel? Why are so many people – young men in particular – leaving their homes, families and villages behind to undertake a perilous journey to an unknown future? In addition to this report, there is a video on the research project.

Metropolis: Affordable housing: profiles of five metropolitan cities

In an economy characterized by ever-increasing metropolisation, one of the biggest challenges for public authorities is to provide affordable housing for new arrivals and local populations alike. This report portrays five different metropolitan governments’ approaches to deal with the issue.