🔵 #UCLGMeets
🗓️ Executive Bureau, April 8–10:
“A Local Social Covenant for humanity: New frontier of the municipal & territorial movement”
With care at the center and a focus on the future of multilateralism, we move forward towards #Tanger2026
Participants seated in a room during the UCLG 2026 Annual Retreat in Barcelona, Spain.
Kelsey Paul Shantz speaks, with a microphone, on behalf of Peace in Our Cities during the UCLG 2026 Annual Retreat in Barcelona, Spain.
How can local governments recommit to preventing violence and building safer communities?
Peace in Our Cities joins @uclg.bsky.social in supporting city leaders to commit to violence prevention strategies that are balanced, evidence-based, legitimate, inter-related, and focused.
🎬 We’re hiring!
We are looking for an Audiovisual Communication Officer to join our team!
📍 Barcelona (full-time role)
🎥 Strong audiovisual profile required
📅 Start: April 2026
📩 Read the job offer via the link below and apply!
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🟡 #UCLGMeets
🌍 Our Annual Retreat 2026 concludes! Together, we strengthened our World Organization and advanced shared priorities for the journey to #Tangier2026.
👏 Thanks to all for making it a success!
#Listen2Cities
🟡 The final day of #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 is here!
📣 Outreach strategy for an inclusive movement is about:
🌐 Local public services as a global agenda
📄 the Local Social Covenant
🤝 Network convergence to strengthen our World Organization as a federation of federations
🟡 Day 4 of #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026!
👥 A new generation of universal local public services
✨ Sessions will highlight #LRG workers, collaborative delivery of the Local Social Covenant, and strategies to strengthen local multilateralism ahead of #Tangier2026.
🟡Day 3⃣ of our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 starts!
🏛️ Democracy and Plurilateralism
👏Today, #LRGs tackle trust, leadership & collaborative delivery of the Local Social Covenant: turning rights, care & new essentials into real impact, shaping multilateral action for #Tangier2026.
🟡 Day 2⃣ of our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 is about to start!
✨ The day will focus on the 100 Days of Local Multilateralism: a strategic cycle aligning #WUF13, #Tangier2026, the review of 10 years of the New Urban Agenda & the #HLPF into one shared political roadmap toward 2030.
This week, our director @boristonhauser.bsky.social is actively participating at @uclg.bsky.social retreat in Barcelona 🇪🇸 to shape a local & territorial vision for the world.
#UCLGMeets
🌟 Welcome to our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026!
🔴 🔵 Kicking off with the Annual Meeting of the
@globaltaskforce.bsky.social and the first day of our Annual Retreat focusing on the Municipal Agenda in the era of change.
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#Listen2Cities
#UCLGMeets
✨ As we gear up for our Annual Retreat under the motto “Local Multilateralism HOPE and OBJECTIVE”, our membership will reaffirm its commitment to a renewed multilateral system & shape priorities toward the UCLG World Congress in #Tangier2026.
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📅 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
Isaac Eseet stands behind a podium wearing a black suit and sunny yellow tie with a red wall in the background
"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
🌍 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
🤝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
📍#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
🗓️ 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.
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
💡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!
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💼 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
🎨 "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
📢 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
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.
🕸 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
🤝 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.
🥝 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.
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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.
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#NotABorderTale
📍 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.
🤝 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.
