News

The 9th edition of the World Urban Forum will see training sessions and workshops of various CIB members, and a UCLG-CIB training session on integrated territorial planning with the SDGs in medium sized cities. Training:...
The CIB Working Group proudly presents a new report on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) practice of CIB members. The reason for this report was to compare the ways in which members integrate these activities...
The CIB Working Group is happy to present to you its final work plan for 2018 (please find it here). Based on many consultations with the members, including the CIB strategic review session at the CIB annual meeting of 2017...

International agendas

In July 2018, 38 countries are going to report to the UN on the progress they have made in achieving the SDGs. The CIB Working Group wishes to support the LGAs in these countries with two things: 1.  To reach out to...

Updates from members

The Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) has launched 24 new international partnerships to boost local democracy, in various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe and Asia. The red thread in...
For UCLG Africa, 2018 will be a pivotal year. Key event is the 8th edition of the Africities Summit in Marrakech, Morocco, on 4-8 December 2018. However, the African Regional Section of UCLG and its African Academy of...
Eight Mayors from Latin American cities pledged to speak in a more united, regional voice at the upcoming global and regional forums, at the 22nd Summit of Mercociudades. One of them, Mayor Jose Ramon Mestre from Cordoba,...
Last week, The Hague Academy for Local Governance announced that new Nuffic fellowships have become available for the open subscription courses taking place in Autumn 2018. Two fellowship programmes are now open for applications:...

Publications

Asian Development Bank Institute: Central and Local Government relations in Asia
PLATFORMA/CPMR: Shaping a new generation of decentralised cooperation - for enhanced effectiveness and accountability
IDS: Governance Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
How to support state-building, service delivery and recovery in fragile and conflict affected situations: lessons from six years of SLRC research