Compendium

CIB News

Voluntary Subnational Reviews: HLPF VSR launch and development of VSR guidelines
Reporting on the SDGs is an indispensable step in implementing the SDGs: on the national level through Voluntary National Reviews (VNR), on the local level through Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) and on the local government...
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Registration for CIB Annual Meeting now open
This year’s CIB Annual Meeting will, similar to last year, be held online. As such, the meeting’s format has also been adapted to an online environment, with the focus on knowledge sharing and discussing the latest trends...
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UCLG News

Register to the 4th UCLG Culture Summit in Izmir
The UCLG Culture Summit is the main meeting point at global level of cities, local governments and other stakeholders that are committed to the effective implementation of policies and programmes on culture and...
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UCLG calls for Human Rights to be preserved in Afghanistan and for women and girls to be protected
 Originally posted on 23-08-2021 at www.uclg.org The World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), gathering over 240.000 member worldwide expresses its deep concern about the ongoing situation in...
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A strong, cohesive and diverse leadership at the UCLG World Congress
The last day of the World Summit was key for the future of our movement. UCLG President, Mohamed Boudra, Mayor of Al Hoceima announced a truly collegial Presidency in which there will be special portfolios including...
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Updates by CIB Members

CUF: Aid of the French municipalities in Tunisia
Tunisia has been hard hit by the Covid since July 2021 following a very strong upsurge in cases.Following the deterioration of the situation, a meeting of the Tunisia country group was organized on July 23, 2021. With the...
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VNG International’s Annual Update 2021
VNG International’s Annual Update 2021 is now available.  “’Building Back Better’. That slogan provides a positive perspective for when the pandemic is over. It also expresses the confidence that societies...
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CUF: Opening of a solidarity fund for Haiti: update on the situation August 2021
Cités Unies France, at the request of local authorities members of its network, is opening a solidarity fund in support of Haiti. This fund can be supplemented by the local authorities which wish it.For more information...
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DeLoG: Annual Meeting 2021 – Opening with a High-Level Policy Dialogue
This year the Annual Meeting will kick-off on the 13th of September with a high-level policy dialogue on ''Inclusive and Resilient Decentralisation and Local Governance Reforms and Institutions’’ open to the public. To...
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Over 14.000 Participate to Youth Friendly Cities Summit by UMT
The Union of Municipalities of Turkey in partnership with Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sport, organized Youth Friendly Cities Summit in Ankara between the dates of 24-25 August 2021. The President of Republic of Turkey has...
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Trainings & Campaigns

Open for registration now: The Hague Academy's course on Migration and Local Authorities
Migration and Local Authorities: Local solutions for large movements of refugees and migrants Course Introduction: The world is currently witnessing the highest levels of human displacement on record. According to the latest...
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ICLD - Four ITP programmes open for application
The applications for four of ICLD’s International Training Programmes are now open: Human Rights Based Approach, Gender Mainstreaming, Women’s Political Leadership and Public Financial Management. The applicant must...
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News regarding gender equality at local level

Issue Brief – Local Democracy Talks: If gender champions rule our cities
Key points from this panel that was held on March 3 2021: Panelists:    Adelina Mwau Ndeto, Deputy Governor, Makueni County, Kenya  Amelie Tarschys Ingre, Councilor and Chair of...
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Calendar of events

Sep09
4th UCLG Culture Summit
Sep13
DeLog Annual Meeting
Sep20
Platforma Steering Committee online meeting
Sep27
Integrity and Anti-Corruption Course The Hague Academy
Oct12
Annual meeting of the UCLG CIB Working Group
Oct26
13th Asian-Pacific City Summit: The Potential of Cities in the Face of Crises
Nov10
FAMSI State Meeting of Local Governments and International Development Cooperation
Nov16
UCLG World Council
Nov16
Africities Summit 9 - Kisumu 2021

Publications

UCLG-CIB: Capacity Building for Gender Equality at the local level

Early 2020, the CIB Working Group Secretariat started working on a study concerning gender equality at the local level. With this publication we explored how UCLG’s political gender strategy can be included in the many of our projects and programmes. At the same time, we hope the that it provides instruments and tools that will help our members to implement gender strategies in their work. Therefore, we produced a brochure, consisting of guidelines, technical tools as well as twelve case studies, composed to demonstrate how local government development cooperation projects can concretely improve gender equality at both the local and regional level.

Localising the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe: Perspectives for the North

How do the Nordic countries and Europe work towards the SDGs? On behalf of KS, Nordregio has carried out a survey of Nordic and European initiatives that are relevant for local and regional authorities to know about in the work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. With the report, KS hopes to contribute useful information and expand the toolbox for the work with the SDGs. In recent years, there has been a clear global agreement that the sustainability goals cannot be met without local efforts. Networks and exchange of experiences across national borders and between the Nordic countries can provide new inspiration and new approaches for local sustainability work.

Immler & Sakkers (2021): The UN-Sustainable Development Goals going local - learning from localising human rights

In 2015 the United Nations declared an ambitious programme, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With similar aspirations to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the SDGs claim is to make a difference in terms of justice and sustainability on a global scale. Both UN frameworks speak to the global imagination, but what do they do in (local) practice(s)? Are the SDGs going to be enough? While current research focuses on the governance aspect of the SDGs and the efficiency of their implementation by national governments, little attention has been paid to the localisation process. Exploring the SDGs as a social imaginary of a moral order (Charles Taylor) and linking this to a framework of ‘localizing human rights’, we determine whether and in what way the SDGs might be a source of inspiration in some pioneering city-initiatives.