29/12/2011
500 representatives from the local and regional world from more than 40 countries gathered at the UCLG World Council held in Florence, Italy, from 9-11 December. The main issues brought to the table by the Council were the UCLG strategy for the next six years and the contribution of local authorities to the international debate on sustainability and Rio+20. The members of the World Council agreed ...
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29/12/2011
The new book Descentralización y Gobierno Municipal en América Central (Análisis del marco jurídico, institucional, financiero y tributario de los gobiernos locales en América Central) has just been released and is the result of a widespread analysis of local governments in the Central American region carried out by the Central American Gobernability Institute (ICG), ...
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29/12/2011
The development cooperation actors of local and regional governments took part in a round table at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan (South Korea) on November 29. The European Union-Latin America Observatory for Decentralised Cooperation, integrated by the Diputació de Barcelona and Intendencia de Montevideo, chaired the session, which was attended by numerous representatives ...
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29/12/2011
The Durban Summit on climate change also provided a space designed for local and regional governments. From 2-4 December, a conference was held under the title "Durban Convention for Local Governments: adapting to a changing climate, towards COP17/CMP7". The event was organised by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), South African Cities Network (SACN), eThekwini Municipality and ...
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29/12/2011
The Pakistani government has decided that passports will also be issued at provincial headquarters and even districts within two months, such as in the offices established in Multan, Lahore, Dera Ghazi Khan, Haripur or Chakwal. As the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, stated, passports were previously only issued from the capital, Islamabad, and now they have decided to decentralise this in order to ...
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29/12/2011
The president of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman, inaugurated the first Urban Forum held in the country in December. Bangladesh is one of the fastest urbanising nations in the region and it is expected that its urban population will reach 80 million by the year 2030. Therefore, the discussion on the future of its cities were the focus in the main sessions in which experts linked to the urban growth as well ...
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29/12/2011
The European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM), which, for two months, supervised the electoral process that led to the September 20 general elections in Zambia, has released its final report. The document concludes that the elections were organised in a credible, competitive and transparent way. However, they present several recommendations aimed at improving future elections. One of them ...
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29/12/2011
After the changes promoted by citizen´s protests and the overthrow of their regimes in countries such as Tunisia or Egypt, the future role of local and regional government in the new emerging scenario, will be a key issue to take into consideration throughout the transitory and constituent processes. The Decentralisation and Local Self-Government Committee has already presented an initiative ...
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29/12/2011
The Global Fund for Cities Development (FMDV) has recently published a new document on urban funding in South America and was presented in Porto Alegre in November during the workshop "The future of urban investment in South America" organised by FMDV and UCLG. The document focuses on innovative initiatives developed by different types of actors at the local, national and regional levels in their ...
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29/12/2011
UCLG Decentralisation and Local Self-Government Committee held a meeting on December 9 in Florence, at the UCLG World Council. The president of the Diputació de Barcelona and of the Committee, Salvador Esteve, inaugurated the meeting attended by more than 60 representatives from local governments, commissions, regional sections and the world secretariat. In the meeting, the activities developed ...
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