The Summit

This World Summit will not only serve as a meeting point for innovative dialogue on the global agendas from the LRG perspective, but for a renewed strategy for the municipal movement as a whole, and a renewed leadership of the World Organization.

There are 4 main tracks at the World Summit, each track designed to foster the dialogues, to guide the debate and exchange process that will take place throughout the Summit, and to produce specific outcomes. UCLG core values of geographical and gender balance have been taken into consideration wherever possible.

Assembly Track
Local Action For The People

This track will have local and regional government representatives as the key drivers. It aims at allowing continental, sectoral and thematic priorities that contribute to the global policies of the Organization of Local and Regional Governments. UCLG Sections as well as sister organizations of local governments will be invited to develop position papers to be presented during the Assembly sittings.

The sittings will be organised in high level round tables organised continentally or by sector, based on positions papers developed on the run up to the Congress. The contents will be further submitted to the World Assembly of Local Regional Governments.

The World Assembly

A session of the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments will be held during the World Congress. The World Assembly is convened by the Global Taskforce and plays a role in the follow-up of the New Urban Agenda, as recognized in the Quito Outcome Document.

The World Assembly is the mechanism through which the local and regional governments constituency deliberate and agree upon its political voice in the international agenda. In order to continue playing a key role as the political voice of local and regional governments in the definition, follow- up and review of the international agendas, the World Assembly will provide a space for dialogue that allows our constituency to reflect on our policies and solutions for the coming 3 years. The outcomes from the Town Hall sessions and the Assembly sittings will be presented, discussed and adopted by the World Assembly.

Town Hall Track
Cities are Listening

Civil Society partners will be in the driver´s seat of this track. The Local Regional Government constituency recognizes the importance of collaboration with global partners, and thus this track will be the space for dialogue and interaction between different internationally organized communities, civil society, and the political leadership of the local and regional governments constituency to define our global policies, in an open format to debate and discuss policy papers on multiple themes. Different trails will be led by organised partners such as Global Platform for the Right to the City, Habitat International Coalition, World Enabled, the Huairou Commission, the General Assembly of Partners and Cities Alliance, and more.

The deliberations of the Town Hall will be on key policy areas:

Inclusive and Accessible Cities
Gender Equality
Right to the City
Slum upgrading / Informality
Partnership for Urban Sustainable Development

Within the World Summit open debates will take place throughout various sessions (each pertaining to the themes above) in an interactive discussion among several stakeholders including local government representatives.

The result of the deliberations will be presented to the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments.

Local4Action Track
Share | Listen | Review

The Local4Action Track should be the space where everybody feels at home! It will provide the adequate format for all the spheres of the network but also partners to participate in a cooperative process to share, listen, and review.

A menu of five different formats of sessions have been developed that will be able to accommodate all the experiences and ideas within the framework of one the following policy areas: “right to the city and inclusive territories”; “opportunities for all, culture & city diplomacy”; “territorial multilevel governance and sustainable financing”; “safer, resilient and sustainable cities, capable of facing crises”.

The deliberations of the Town Hall will be on key policy areas:

Inspiring _ Get inspired and Inspire!
Inspirational sessions, LocalTALKS, Small Exchanges, Presentations of experiences, implementations, events, and launchings, will compose this format so as to allow an idea, a statement, an inspiration, to be expressed in this global platform of inspiring dialogue. Open to individuals, professionals, influencers, mayors, cities, etc.
Local Policies & Voices_ Come and see what’s happening at the local level
Taking a look at the processes and experiences of creation and co-creation of policy making in the city, and understanding the implication of all levels of governance and actors in urban sustainable development will compose this format. Open to UCLG members, national government, partners of UCLG, constituency members, UCLG consultation mechanisms.

Global Conversations _ Take a seat at the Global table!
Understanding the ongoing global conversations that address current trends and global challenges will be at the heart of this format, implicating the Global Task Force, Stakeholders, Global Partnerships and High Level exchanges, opening the Dialogue between life at local level and the global Conversation that impacts citizens’ lives. Open to Global Task Force constituency, Global Institutional Partners, Stakeholders.
Labs _ Interact and learn
This format will be dedicated to interactive sessions such as trainings and/or specific workshops. Open to UCLG members, national government partners of UCLG, and constituency members.

The Heart of the World Summit experience: the Local4Action Hub

We are continually shaping this; come and share your ideas with us!

The Local4Action hub is an eco-system. It is designed as a dynamic and relational space where the different tracks of the UCLG World Summit & Congress interconnect and interact. It is the place to pick up the discussions that have already begun prior to the Summit, meet face-to-face or digitally and take action oriented ideas forward. It is the place to keep brainstorming on the new ideas that are being shared in the World Summit and continue connecting with communities from all over the world.

Statutory Track
UCLG Decision Making

This track is for UCLG Members only. It comprises the meetings of the governing bodies that shape the policies and work plan of the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments. This includes leading the charge for the renewal of the UCLG Leadership.

The Statutory track will include:

The Financial Management Committee, which is appointed by the Executive Bureau and chaired by the elected Treasurer.
The Committee on Statutory Affairs, which is appointed by the Executive Bureau, is in charge of reviewing any issues concerning the institutional work of the organization.
The Executive Bureau, which is responsible for initiating proposals and carrying out the decisions of the World Council, is in charge of the World Organization´s administrative and financial management.
The General Assembly (not to be confused with the World Assembly of LRGs) gathers all members of UCLG. It has the responsibility for the overall policy, direction and oversight of the organization. It appoints the World Council resulting from an electoral process lead continentally throughout the year previous to the Congress.
The World Council is the principle policymaking body of the World Organization. The World Council elects the UCLG Presidency.

Legacy

The policy recommendations and positions gathered through the Assembly and Town Hall track will become the reference for future policy development, advocacy and work plans of both the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments and the World Organization of United Cities and Local Governments.

For the first time, the outcome of the Congress will not only be a unique declaration, but a series of integrated policy recommendations intended to guide the renewal of the overall UCLG Strategy moving into 2020 and beyond.

It should further inspire the work of the organised constituency of local and regional governments within the Global Taskforce.

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The Summit

Why Attend

adminDurban — Tue, 28 May 2019 11:39:59 +0000

Why Attend

The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders, convened by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), is the largest gathering of mayors, presidents of associations, councillors, and local and regional practitioners from around the world. It also gathers the most influential local and regional leaders, councillors, local governments, partners, and actors implicated in the decision making of city and community life.

This year's edition, that will be held on 11-15 November in Durban, South Africa, will count on a renewed format and enhanced collaboration between members and partners.

Building on the centenary-old international movement of municipalities, the World Summit experience will include interactive and innovative formats built on four tracks that will guide participants, together with dedicated sessions for UCLG membership.

The triennial UCLG Congress also builds on the legacy of the commitments of the local and regional governments’ constituency around the world. A commitment to ensure a better future for all through action at local, national and international levels. A commitment to govern and build in partnership, and for cities and regions to take their rightful place at the head of a new international agenda for inclusive and sustainable development.

The Cornerstones of the World Summit of Local and Regional Governments

Local and regional governance at the heart of sustainable development

Local and regional governments (LRGs) understand the global agendas as one single universal framework addressing all of the planet’s most urgent priorities. The 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework, the New Urban Agenda (among others) – an accelerator for implementation – constitute key assets.

A transformational spirit, driven by LRGs, has been launched to achieve the global agendas. Ownership of the global goals from the bottom-up, and shaping its definition and implementation at the local level will be critical to the achievement of the agendas.

Communities,citizens, and LRGs cannot be seen as mere witnesses of development or recipients of cooperation. Their capacity to catalyse action, as well as their technical and political barriers to achieving sustainable development must be tackled. The World Summit will showcase how Localization is a significant policy instrument and only through the political will of all stakeholders will we be able to implement the agendas in cities and territories to leave no one and no place behind.

The World Summit should inspire local and regional leaders to define their solutions to the major challenges felt across the globe. It should also offer a space to present their cases, but most importantly it should allow the local and regional government constituency to strategize on the local contributions to the global goals.

New Era for Local and Regional Governance

The World Summit will allow our constituency to build strong links among communities, civil society, national governments, the international community and other stakeholders.

Spaces will be cultivated for stakeholders and urban actors to participate and co-create, together, the future policies of the municipal movement and further, to drive home the point that transformation at the local level is intrinsically linked with stakeholder engagement and multi-level dialogue both at global, regional and national levels.

Equality, local finance, the agenda of intermediary cities, the need to revisit local democracy, the role of local governments in building peaceful societies, as well as constructing a new narrative on migration are but a few areas that our World Summit will address.

Durban will be the scene in which we present to the world the renewed type of leadership that can make future generations thrive; one that will help us shape the intergenerational dialogue that builds a peaceful and sustainable world, with all and for all.

The Summit will define the priorities of the local and regional leaderships and confirm their great potential as the sentinels of communities’ hopes, dreams and expectations. Building the transformation of the global governance system will need to start with diversity, trust and a better way to organise life, leaving no one and no place behind.

The World Summit will consolidate the policies that the constituency has been promoting with a strong focus on local governments as representatives of communities and for communities.

Special attention will be paid to strengthening democracy, the implementation of the right to the city and the development of an intergenerational agenda, so as to foster the idea that sustaining peace is a goal and a process to build a common vision of a society.

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The Summit

Welcome

adminDurban — Thu, 23 May 2019 13:42:58 +0000

Welcome

Welcome Message from the UCLG President

This gathering is becoming a true corner stone of our movement and organization. I am most pleased to be able to share with you this space for candid discussion where our aspirations and hopes are blended into concrete actions. As African and South African I am most pleased to have this big celebration in Durban.

The UCLG Congress needs to be relevant to the membership, to the movement and to the world. It needs to be relevant to all stakeholders. I sincerely hope this gathering will reflect our full strength, the diversity of our organization, and our capacity to work with others. We need to strike the right balance between what matters to the world and the day to day business of our communities and our neighborhoods.

Local and regional governments are used to a different type of governance to share responsibilities and this is why we should no longer await for multilateral spaces to be open to us in order to interact with our internationally organized communities Our 6th World Congress is the consolidation of our strategy, as well as the beginning of a new era for our World Organization. Building the Congress needs to allow us to develop new ways of thinking, new formats of debate and, of course, new solutions for our communities.

We are ready to deliver on a Congress that builds strong links among citizens and the civil society and that leaves no-one and no place behind; a Congress that can promote local democracy and lay the groundwork for a true multi-level governance system.

I look forward to welcoming you to this gathering of our Organization in Africa.

Mpho Parks Tau
President of UCLG

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The Summit

The Summit

Parallel meetings

11 November

Programme

Share | Listen | Review

UCLG Decision Making

Cities are Listening

Local Action for the People

11 November

Co-creation

Four tracks to lead us to Co-creation

Co-creating our common environment

Thematic priorities of the constituency

Assembly Track
Local Action For The People

The World Assembly

Town Hall Track
Cities are Listening

Local4Action Track
Share | Listen | Review

The Heart of the World Summit experience: the Local4Action Hub

Statutory Track
UCLG Decision Making

Legacy

Why Attend

The Cornerstones of the World Summit of Local and Regional Governments

Local and regional governance at the heart of sustainable development

New Era for Local and Regional Governance

The World Summit will allow our constituency to build strong links among communities, civil society, national governments, the international community and other stakeholders.

The World Summit will consolidate the policies that the constituency has been promoting with a strong focus on local governments as representatives of communities and for communities.

Special attention will be paid to strengthening democracy, the implementation of the right to the city and the development of an intergenerational agenda, so as to foster the idea that sustaining peace is a goal and a process to build a common vision of a society.

Welcome

Welcome Message from the UCLG President

The Summit

Parallel meetings

11 November

Programme

Share | Listen | Review

UCLG Decision Making

Cities are Listening

Local Action for the People

11 November

Co-creation

Four tracks to lead us to Co-creation

Co-creating our common environment

Thematic priorities of the constituency

Assembly Track Local Action For The People

The World Assembly

Town Hall Track Cities are Listening

Local4Action Track Share | Listen | Review

The Heart of the World Summit experience: the Local4Action Hub

Statutory Track UCLG Decision Making

Legacy

Why Attend

The Cornerstones of the World Summit of Local and Regional Governments

Local and regional governance at the heart of sustainable development

New Era for Local and Regional Governance

The World Summit will allow our constituency to build strong links among communities, civil society, national governments, the international community and other stakeholders.

The World Summit will consolidate the policies that the constituency has been promoting with a strong focus on local governments as representatives of communities and for communities.

Special attention will be paid to strengthening democracy, the implementation of the right to the city and the development of an intergenerational agenda, so as to foster the idea that sustaining peace is a goal and a process to build a common vision of a society.

Welcome

Welcome Message from the UCLG President

Assembly Track
Local Action For The People

Town Hall Track
Cities are Listening

Local4Action Track
Share | Listen | Review

Statutory Track
UCLG Decision Making