New Urban Agenda

UN Secretary-General appoints Anne Hidalgo and Parks Tau to high-level panel to follow-up on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda

18 Apr 2017
President of UCLG, Parks Tau, and UCLG Co-President, C40 Chair, AIMF President and Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, join 8 member expert panel t...

World Bank Group course on Financing for Development

01 Feb 2017
Learn from prominent government and international organization leaders about innovations to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). &...

Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation commits to empower local governments to localize the SDGs

01 Dec 2016
The Nairobo Outcome Document recognizes the role of local and regional governments in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and commits to build their ca...

New platform to help local governments to localize the SDGs

08 Nov 2016
The pioneering new platform “Localizing the SDGs” will allow local governments to share knowledge on how to localize the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable D...

Local leaders call for decentralization, financing for cities and the feminization of politics at Habitat III

16 Oct 2016
On 16th October 2016, on the eve of the Third UN Conference of Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III), over a thousand representative...

World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments adopts joint statement to present at Habitat III in Bogotá

13 Oct 2016
  From Bogotá to Quito: local and regional governments celebrate the New Urban Agenda and call on UN Member States to #Listen2Cities at Ha...