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Local democracy

Local democracy

Mayors of Europe and beyond, take part to the Mayors’ Action Platform!

29 September 2021

Publish your own success stories, read case studies by other municipalities, and get directly in tou...

Local government takes a seat at the UN table

13 October 2020

75 years already! That’s how long it’s been since the creation of the United Nations, an organis...

Financing, COVID-19

Financing, COVID-19

Innovation, Proximity & Solidarity: Local Economic Development as Immediate Response

Local and regional governments are playing a key innovative role in giving impetus to the maintenanc...

Urban Development

Urban Development

World Urban Forum: Here’s where Europe’s local and regional governments will play an active role

7 February 2020

Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and this proportion is expected to incr...

Urban Development

Urban Development

World’s first ever UN Habitat Assembly promises local-friendly future

We all live somewhere. And we all want the place we live in to provide a good quality of life. At th...

Urban Development

Urban Development

PLATFORMA will be at UN-Habitat 1st Assembly meeting in Nairobi

Three local elected representatives will attend the first session of the UN-Habitat Assembly in Na...

Venice 2030: the conclusions of the multi-stakeholder dialogue are online

28 January 2019

The conclusion of the November ‘Venice City Solutions 2030-Financing the SDGs at the local l...

Gender Equality

Gender Equality

“Cities for girls and young women = cities for all” High-level panel at the European Development Days 2018

PLATFORMA/CEMR, Plan International, UN HABITAT, and United Cities and Local Governments–Africa are...

Gender Equality

Gender Equality

#EDD18: attend our Auditorium session “Cities for girls and young women = cities for all”

PLATFORMA/CEMR, Plan International, UN HABITAT, and United Cities and Local Governments – Afri...

Urban Development

Urban Development

Local and regional leaders met UN Secretary General

8 September 2017

“Expectations are high on the objectives set by the UN towards local and regional governments;...

When localising the SDGs is shared in a creative and participatory environment

The Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments (GTF) – which is facilitated by UCLG – ...

Local governments are crucial for the implementation of the global development agendas

Representatives from local and regional government networks gathered in Istanbul on 24 April for the...

Urban Development

Urban Development

5 questions on the New Urban Agenda: Citiscope interviews PLATFORMA

27 October 2016

Citiscope, a leading media on local issues, interviewed PLATFORMA Policy adviser Wouter Boesman on t...

Urban Development

Urban Development

At Habitat III, the EU commits to increase support to city-to-city cooperation

20 October 2016

The EU Commissioner announced that the EU would “boost cooperation between cities around the world...

Urban Development

Urban Development

Our shortlisted events for Habitat III

17 October 2016

Habitat III is the third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. Twe...

Urban Development

Urban Development

UCLG Congress starts today: our 7 shortlisted events

12 October 2016

The 2016 edition of UCLG World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders starts today in Bogotá, capita...

Migration & integration

Migration & integration

Local governments are at the forefront of humanitarian crises

Participants to the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul (Turkey) made it clear that local actors a...

Migration & integration

Migration & integration

PLATFORMA brings the voice of decentralised cooperation to the World Humanitarian Summit

The first World Humanitarian Summit just kicked off today in Istanbul (Turkey) with high expectatio...

Migration & integration

Migration & integration

Local authorities should be involved in evaluating humanitarian programmes

The Council conclusions on forced displacement and development are positive but the role of local an...