Boletín Mayo 2014
Noticia destacada
Noticias principales
En mayo de 2004, alcaldes y líderes políticos de todo el mundo, se reunieron para asistir al Congreso fundador de la Organización Mundial de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales Unidos (CGLU) que tuvo lugar en París. Diez años después, CGLU continúa representando y defendiendo a todos los tipos de gobiernos locales y regionales en el plano global.
The report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, is the contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). It highlights the role of local governments in “scaling up adaptation of communities, households, civil society and in managing risk information and financing”.
The third International Forum of Medinas, organized by the Network of Mediterranean Medinas, which is chaired and coordinated by 8 Moroccan cities, was held in Tanger between the 24th and 26 of April 2014 in partnership with UCLG.
The consensus draft of the Communiqué of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) hosted in Mexico on 15-16 of April emphasized the role of local and regional governments in development.
El Secretariado General de CGLU felicita a los miembros de la Presidencia de CGLU reelegidos en sus ciudades. Las elecciones municipales que tuvieron lugar en Turquía y en Francia el último 30 de marzo, vieron la victoria de algunos miembros de la Presidencia de Ciudades y Gobiernos Locales Unidos.
UCLG is pleased to announce the publication of “Basic principles of Community-Based Monitoring” officially launched on 8 April 2014 during the WUF jointly with the “Centro do Studios Sociais” (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and the The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD).
Secciones y miembros de cglu
El plazo para que los miembros y partners de Metropolis envíen sus solicitudes a las nuevas Iniciativas Metropolis acaba de extenderse. Si su ciudad u organización coordina proyectos y/o ofrece servicios en los temas relacionados no pierda la última oportunidad de enviar su solicitud.
The year 2015 has been designated as the European Year for Development under the motto “Our world, our dignity, our future”. Many campaigns and conferences will be organised to raise citizens’ awareness of this topic and national, regional and local authorities are invited to participate.
UCLG-MEWA Culture Working Group held its second meeting in Gaziantep on 14th of March, 2014, hosted by Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, with the participation of its members. This meeting was held under the theme of “Culture for Peace, Peace for Culture”. The management structure of UCLG-MEWA Culture Working Group was established.
COMISIONES, GRUPOS DE TRABAJO, COMUNIDADES DE PRÁCTICA, FOROS
La Comisión de Cultura de CGLU lanza la declaración: "el futuro que queremos incluye a la cultura", que promueve la inclusión de la cultura en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible post-2015 y que solicita a la comunidad internacional el apoyo a la campaña.
El Observatorio Ciudades Inclusivas es un espacio de análisis y reflexión sobre políticas locales de inclusión social gestionado y promovido por la Comisión de Inclusión Social de CGLU.
“In an increasingly urban context, local and regional governments will need to provide basic services to hundreds of millions of new urban dwellers in the next 20 years and will need to facilitate local economic development initiatives. Priority should be given to empowering local governments to fulfil their potential as development actors.”
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By Raphael Obonyo. Kenya, like countries across the globe, must contend with the challenges of rapid urbanization. The dramatic spike in youth unemployment, slum populations, and poverty rates in recent years is cause for alarm, but the government has yet to tackle the issue. If Kenya’s rapid urbanization is left unmitigated.
Medellín’s turnaround could not have happened without crackdowns on drug violence. But Gerard Martin thinks a series of reforms culminating in a new constitution for Colombia in 1991 were just as important.
Gerard Martin is one of the leading scholars of Colombia’s cities, particularly Medellín and Bogota. He’s the former director of the Colombia Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Latin American Studies. He’s also the author of Medellín. Tragedia y Resurreccion. Mafia, Ciudad, Estado. 1975-2012, which comes out in a second Spanish edition this month.
More than 300 city leaders and senior members of local government from around the world are to meet in Liverpool’s St George’s Hall to discuss how they are ‘Delivering growth in times of austerity.’
Semana Sostenible habló con la alcaldesa de Chile sobre los retos de los gobiernos locales en el mundo. Carolina Tohá, alcaldesa de Santiago de Chile, ha dedicado su vida a luchar por la democracia. En 1984 participó en la refundación de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile y en 1987 formó parte del equipo fundador del partido por la Democracia.