08.10.2013
Source: The African Report
A hundred years after the municipal movement began, development will be at the heart of discussions at the UCLG congress to be held in Rabat in October.
As the Kenyan government rolls out the decentralisation programme enshrined in its 2010 constitution, local governments and municipalities across the continent are...
30.09.2013
Por Guillermo Tapia, Secretario General de FLACMA, Sección Latinoamericana de CGLU
Apenas si había sido incorporado como funcionario de la Municipalidad de Quito y fui llamado a integrar el grupo de trabajo que facilitaría la reunión en la que se daría luz a la primera expresión regional de IULA.
El 17 de noviembre de 1981, en Quito, Ecuador,...
23.09.2013
From the 1st to the 4th of October, the city of Rabat will be at the forefront of the international scene as thousands of local and regional leaders come from all corners of the world for the World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments. This major event for towns, cities and regions of the world will be characterized by the celebrations...
19.09.2013
With less than two weeks to go until the opening of the World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders and its World Congress, UCLG are intensifying preparations for the highlight of this year´s centennial celebration: a large-scale temporary exhibition that will retrace achievements of the last one hundred years and an official ceremony to pay homage...
19.09.2013
By Jean-Marie Tétart, former Secretary General of the United Towns Organization (1989-1997), Mayor of Houdan
I first began working for the Fédération Mondiale des Cités Unies et Villes Jumelées (United Towns Organization) when Pierre Mauroy was President. At his request, I developed the concept of decentralized cooperation in a more concrete...
18.09.2013
By Antònia Sabartés, Secretary General, Euroregión Pirineos Mediterrànea, Former Director of International Relations of the City of Barcelona (2003-2009)
Upon learning of the centenary of the international municipal movement, I felt nauseous as I realised that of these 100 years, I had spent 23 completely immersed in this world. Without any...
17.09.2013
The nine year anniversary of United Cities and Local Governments coincides with the Centenary of the International Municipal Movement. Not only is UCLG the inheritor of this movement that started 100 years ago, it is also the broadest organization representing the interests of local and regional governments on the international scene. To celebrate...
16.09.2013
By Jeremy Smith, Former Secretary General of IULA
My first experience of IULA was a World executive Committee (WEXCOM) in Santiago de Chile, hosted by IULA’s President and Mayor of Santiago, Jaime Ravinet. But IULA seemed to me to lack focus and strategy. The Secretary General was Drew Horgan, a lovely and committed man who had many strengths, but...
12.09.2013
By Margarita Obiols, Former Secretary of the International Relations Department of Generalitat de Calatunya
Due to life’s circumstances, I have been privilege enough to participate over the last decade – the golden decade no doubt – in the international municipal movement that celebrates a century of life. The perspective of one hundred years is...
10.09.2013
By Alain Le Saux, Secretary General of Metropolis.
I discovered the international movement of cities and local authorities in June1988 when I was contracted as Scientific Director for Metropolis. The President, Michel Giraud, and the Secretary General, Pierre Pommellet, suggested I reflect on the creation of a metropolitan institute of major risk...
