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To ensure that cities and local governments will play a critical role in the upcoming climate negotiations, a Climate Summit for Local Leaders is organised parallel to the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change...
On Thursday 19 November, the City of Bogotá (Colombia) hosted a conference to present the first edition of the UCLG City of Bogotá Peace Prize, a triennial award for (a coalition of) local governments that have implemented...
From 29 November to 3 December UCLG Africa will host the 7th Africities Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. The city and UCLG Africa are expecting 5000 participants, representing all the stakeholders of African local life...
At the beginning of November three-day meeting of 14 representatives of local government networks of the Global Taskforce (GTF) and its partners took place in Barcelona. The meeting was organized in the framework of the newly...
From 9 – 13 November, VNG International organised simulation game sessions for Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Officers (MDRRMOs) in the Philippines, in cooperation with the League of Municipalities of the Philippines...
FCM’s Municipal Partners for Economic Development (MPED) program aims to help deliver more effective services that advance local economic development in Vietnam, Cambodia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Nicaragua and Bolivia.  As...
The UN Development Cooperation High-Level Symposium, that took place in Kampala, Uganda, from 4 to 6 November, was the first opportunity, after the adoption of the 2030 Development Agenda, and under the UN auspices,...

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