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The Social Audit Tool developed by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC) consists of 12 questions framed as outcome statements. For each of these questions, a library…
The UCLG World Council in Rabat in October 2013 confirmed the importance of culture as a key component of sustainable development and a consequent priority for cities and local…
We are pleased to invite you to the 13th International Congress of Educating Cities! We encourage you to make room in your schedules to come to Barcelona to share with us…
The first Preparatory Committee meeting (Prepcom I) of Habitat III, the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, will be taking place in New…
To be effective, approaches to justice and reconciliation need to be multi-faceted: state and non-state; judicial and non-judicial; legal and paralegal. The Village Mediation…
The Executive Bureau that took place from 17th to 19th June in Liverpool, agreed to open a call encouraging candidatures from the Latin American region. Due to the local elections…
Al-Darb al-Ahmar is an historic district in Cairo, and its 100,000 inhabitants are among the poorest. While featuring rich concentration of Islamic monuments, Al-Darb al-Ahmar…
With almost 5,000 visitors every month, the website is an actual resource centre that collects and makes available information, publications, the latest news and current events in…
The 11th Metropolis World Congress in Hyderabad is expecting more than 2000 delegates from over 100 international cities and elected and public officials from over 100…
The "Credits System" is an instrument that was created to implement the Participatory Consolidation Project, which was carried out, promoted and funded by the Pedra Badejo…
Global Consultation on Localizing the Post-2015 Agenda Representatives of sub-national authorities from across the world called for local ownership of the post-2015 development…
Bilbao has been chosen to host the First UCLG Culture Summit in 2015 during the meeting of the UCLG Executive Bureau held in Liverpool. Since the founding Congress of…
The Support Centre Legal Office (GJSA - 1980) of the Angolan Women's Organisation (OMA) is an agency specialising in mediation in family disputes, which was established as a…
The United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Executive Bureau is scheduled to take place in Liverpool, the United Kingdom from 17th – 19th June 2014 by invitation from…
The Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) co-organized, together with Gwangju Metropolitan City,…