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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · 5d

📅 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

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Climate Heritage Network @climateheritage.bsky.social · 11d

"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

Isaac Eseet stands behind a podium wearing a black suit and sunny yellow tie with a red wall in the background

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Council of European Municipalities and Regions @ccre-cemr.bsky.social · 9d

🌍 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

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PLATFORMA @platforma4dev.bsky.social · 20d

🤝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

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · 21d

📍#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

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · 22d

🗓️ 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.

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International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) @is4urbanhealth.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Sep 3

💡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!

🇬🇧 t.ly/i7COH
🇪🇸 t.ly/347TW
🇫🇷 t.ly/WtKet

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Sep 1

💼 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

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Global Cities Hub @globalcitieshub.org · Jul 25

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.”

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sdglocalaction.bsky.social @sdglocalaction.bsky.social · Jul 17

🎨 "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

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Jul 16

📢 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

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Anthony Berthelot @anthony-berthelot.bsky.social · Jul 2

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.

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Cooperación Española @cooperacionespanola.es · Jul 1

🕸 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

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Local2030 Coalition @local2030.bsky.social · Jul 1

🤝 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.

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Jun 26

🥝 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

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

🔗 t.ly/KeH3-

#NotABorderTale

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · Jun 12

📍 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.

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Council of European Municipalities and Regions @ccre-cemr.bsky.social · Jun 10

🤝 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.

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PLATFORMA @platforma4dev.bsky.social · Jun 10

📄 @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...

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Emilia Saiz @emiliasaiz.bsky.social · May 28

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...

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · May 27

🟣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

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sdglocalaction.bsky.social @sdglocalaction.bsky.social · May 20

🔎 @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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Council of European Municipalities and Regions @ccre-cemr.bsky.social · May 5

🕊️ 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

United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · May 2

👏¡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

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United Cities @uclg.bsky.social · May 3

🌟 ¡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

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