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📅 Mark your calendars! The 2025 UCLG World Council will take place in Xi’an.

🌍 For 3 days, #LocalGovs will come together to shape communities for current and future generations.

🔗 The full program: www.uclgmeets.org/conferences/...

#UCLGMeets
📅 Mark your calendars! The 2025 UCLG World Council will take place in Xi’an.

🌍 For 3 days, #LocalGovs will come together to shape communities for current and future generations.

🔗 The full program: www.uclgmeets.org/conferences/...

#UCLGMeets
October 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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"Culture is not a passive victim of climate change; Culture is an active driver of solutions."
Isaac Eseet, Coordinator for CHN's Africa and Arab States Region, speaking this morning at the @uclg.bsky.social Climate Summit in Barcelona
#climateheritage #cop30 #wemaketomorrow #imaginingfutures
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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🌍 Learn how to localise the #SDGs through decentralised cooperation!

Free 2-month online course by @uclg.bsky.social & @platforma4dev.bsky.social with tools, practices & mentoring for Local and Regional Governments. Certificate included. Register now

👉 learningwith.uclg.org

#LocalizingSDGs
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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🤝Join now the @uclg.bsky.social & @platforma4dev.bsky.social #LearningCommunity through our free moderated online course on Decentralised Cooperation & #SDGs!

Applications are open until 5 October in EN, ES & FR. Don't lose time, register now! 👇

platforma-dev.eu/online-cours...

#LocalizingSDGs
Online course on SDGs: register before 5 October - Platforma
Register for free to the 3rd edition of the moderated online course “Localizing the SDGs through Decentralized Cooperation: tools for projects, policies and partnerships” by UCLG & PLATFORMA before 5 ...
platforma-dev.eu
September 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📍#UCLGTownHall

💬Policies must affect territories, and cities have a voice. -
@emiliasaiz.bsky.social

Day 2 started with a call to put care at the 💜 of public policy, shaping the New Essentials and inspiring a new generation of service provision.

#LocalSocialCovenant
September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🗓️ Today & over the next 3 days, we'll host the UCLG Town Hall

🏠 Day 1: Housing & Transformative Local Finance

🤝 Together with #LRGs, civil society & partners, we will co-create solutions for adequate housing & stronger local finance within the #LocalSocialCovenant.
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Another heartfelt thank you to our friends & colleagues @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr for inviting us to participate in this important event — and for reminding us that “proximity is first and foremost about intent”

@uclg.bsky.social

#UrbanHealth
September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
💡Curious to know more about how to design and implement a strategy for #DecentralizedCooperation and #SDGs?

🌍 Applications for the Moderated Online Course about the #DC & #SDGs are open until October 5th!
Apply in your preferred language below!

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September 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
💼 2 new job opportunities at #UCLG!

🚀 Join our team in Barcelona as a Program Manager or Policy Officer!

👉 Policy Officer: t.ly/btK8q

👉 Program Manager: t.ly/p8jsU

Apply now to advance the role of #LocalGovs globally!

#NowHiring #JobOpening #Careers
September 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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On 23 July, the GCH, alongside UN OHCHR, the Geneva Human Rights Platform, and @uclg.bsky.social , convened a full-day workshop:

🔹 “Enhancing national reporting and implementation of human rights through coordinated engagement at the local and regional levels: the role of NMIRFs.”
July 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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🎨 "Public art is not just aesthetics. It is also a matter of bonding communities"— Jordi Pascual, coordinator of @uclg.bsky.social

In our latest webinar, Jordi underscored the importance of urban arts for inclusive cities.

🌆 Follow us to learn how local governments explores urban arts
July 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
📢 Just launched! The 9th GOLD Report, Towards the Localization of the SDGs, is out!

🌍💼💙 Explore how #LocalGovs are advancing #SDG3 (health), #SDG5 (gender), #SDG8 (decent work), & #SDG14 (life below water)

📘Read the full report + 4 deep dives
gold.uclg.org/sites/defaul...

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Pour la 4ème Conférence du développement organisée par l'ONU à Séville, l'Assemblée Mondiale des gouvernements locaux et régionaux s'est réunie pour faire entendre sa voix.
En tant que co-chair du Conseil politique sur les finances de @uclg.bsky.social, je fus honoré d'en avoir été le porte-parole.
July 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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🕸 Tejiendo alianzas en la Asamblea Mundial de Gobiernos Locales y Regionales de @uclg.bsky.social en Sevilla.

🤝 La secretaria de Estado de Cooperación Internacional, @evagranados.bsky.social, destacó la presencia de la localización en el consensuado #CompromisoDeSevilla de la Conferencia #FfD4
July 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🤝 The UN Local2030 Coalition was proud to partner on the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments, held on the margins of #FFD4.

We reaffirmed our commitment to elevate local leadership and solutions in global financing dialogues.

📈 Localizing finance is not optional — it’s fundamental.
July 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🥝 How are #LocalGovs addressing food insecurity?

👩‍💻 Discover our new MOOC with Let's Food: a free online course to explore the role of territories in building fairer food systems.

🕒 2–3 hours of practical tools, local stories & action-oriented insights.

🔗 t.ly/AZp85
June 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
This #WorldRefugeeDay, we stand in solidarity #WithRefugees & all people on the move.

Via our new Local Coalition w/ UN partners, we commit to advance Global Compacts while building a safer future, centered on territorial solidarity & rights, for & by all communities.

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#NotABorderTale
June 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📍 At #U20SouthAfrica, UCLG ASG of Partnerships
@pablofmarmissolle.bsky.social highlights the Local Social Covenant to rebuild multilateralism: placing housing, local finance, and public health at the 💜, while embracing solidarity, feminist leadership, and #ClimateJustice from the ground up.
June 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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🤝 The EU Commission & CEMR reaffirm commitment to empower LRGs in global cooperation.

🌍 President of @uclg.bsky.social met with Commissioner Jozef Sikela to explore how to make initiatives like #GlobalGateway more effective on the ground.
June 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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📄 @uclg.bsky.social President Jan van Zanen presented today our Political declaration on the #NextMFF to @ec.europa.eu for International Partnerships Jozef Síkela

❗️He expressed his concern for the drastic reduction of development budgets globally

👉 Read it now! platforma-dev.eu/wp-content/u...
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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100 local governments officials & practitioners came together to discuss care-infrastructure. It is energizing to see this level of commitment for a positive agenda that can change lives of people for the better. Follow our work here. #GOLDVII @uclg.bsky.social

www.uclgmeets.org/processes/Co...
May 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🟣Future Envisioning Exercise on Care

@emiliasaiz.bsky.social, UCLG’s SG

💬 Care is both an aspiration & an inspiration. It’s the prism through which we can imagine the public service of the future. To build a new economy, care must be at its 💜: shaping new essentials, new ways of serving.

#GOLDVII
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🔎 @uclg.bsky.social has launched the GOLD VII Multimedia Journal on Economies of #Equality and #Care.

Care connects with critical areas like gender equality, health, public services, urban planning, time policies, social cohesion and resilience.

Learn more: sdglocalaction.org/care-local-g...
UCLG focuses on care and equality in local governance - SDG Local Action
The issues of care and inequality are becoming increasingly important on the global agendas. Within this context, the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) has launched the GOLD VII Multimedia Jo...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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🕊️ We represented European municipalities at the @uclg.bsky.social #CitiesAndTerritoriesOfPeace Forum in #Montevideo

CEMR's Secretary General moderated a session on the role of city diplomacy in advancing peace amidst today's complex geopolitical landscape

#CiudadesYTerritoriosDePaz
👏¡Empieza el 5º Foro Mundial de Ciudades y Territorios de Paz en Montevideo!

🕊️Evento coorganizado por la Intendencia de Montevideo y CGLU, nos reunimos para compartir ideas, políticas y experiencias desde los territorios que construyen paz, inclusión y justicia.

#CiudadesYTerritoriosDePaz
May 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🌟 ¡Día 2 del 5º Foro Mundial de #CiudadesYTerritoriosDePaz🕊️ en Montevideo!

🌐 Seguimos compartiendo experiencias territoriales que construyen paz, inclusión y justicia. Los gobiernos locales y regionales se unen por un futuro más equitativo.

#Listen2Cities
May 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM