Day 2: 16.02.2020 - UCLG Retreat & Campus

#UCLGMeets intervention of our secretary general at the 2nd day of the annual seminar of UCLG on: "Africa's priorities in the global agenda of local and regional governments". @uclg_orgpic.twitter.com/1UI11ShXqP

#UCLGMeets Mrs. Rahmatouca Sow, adviser for international relations and political affairs of UCLG Africa presented the work plan of the organization. @uclg_orgpic.twitter.com/CDaZNGmwpg

Estamos participando del retiro anual de @uclg_org Hoy las experiencias resultantes de #CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/Tmqvm3DBvV

Alexandre Apsan Frediani (@xapsan), Principal Researcher Human Settlements Group International Institute for Environment and Development is introducing the democratising pathway for a real change at #UCLGmeetspic.twitter.com/i4CEICU9UN

In the session, Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi, UCLG Africa SG, took a moment to honor the memory of the former UCLG President Kadir Topbaş, emphasizing that thanks to his strong personal relations with the former UN SG Ban Ki-moon, UCLG became actively involved in the UN mechanisms.pic.twitter.com/8xTNs2iili

#UCLGMeetsWe had an interesting breakout session at our Annual Retreat with inspiring interventions and ideas that will fuel the All-UCLG #GenderEquality Strategy and our Agenda in the coming months towards #CSW65!! #CitiesAreListening #GenerationEqualitypic.twitter.com/F5QdZq4vyc

Less than 10 years to achieve 2030 agenda - how can international decentralised cooperation be of use to tackle numerous global challenges and who should LRGs cooperate with to accelerate action? @uclg_org #UCLGmeets #CIBmeets @IDS_UKpic.twitter.com/77WKdeiWp2

At the UCLG Annual Retreat #UCLGMeets @LuzAmparoMedina Director of @BogotaInter_nal shared: “In Bogotá the concept of care is related to the burden imposed on women, relieving them of that burden by providing access to work and education is a right approach to the pandemic".pic.twitter.com/k5RpyjYMRf

Did you participate in today's #UCLGMeets focused on how to renew @UCLG_org social agendas? Don't miss our article about the last edition of the Policy Council on the #RighttotheCity with key messages by our political leadership on this matter https://uclg-cisdp.org/en/news/latest-news/setting-uclg-agenda-advocacy-and-political-debate-right-city-and-human-rights-first …pic.twitter.com/Z2bc4QgJ9I

#FENAMM participa en el inicio de Retiro 2021 del Organismo Mundial de Alcaldes, que anualmente define la estrategia anual del movimiento municipalista internacional. Se inician 10 días de trabajos con +450 delegados de todo el mundo; #FENAMM coordina delegación latinoamericana.pic.twitter.com/ruy8LAEvvD

#UCLGMeet #CitiesAreListening The Advocacy session comes to an end! Let’s keep co-creating from the ground, through the @GlobalTaskforce but also through our consultation mechanisms. Let’s keep thinking together on how we can make our efforts permanent.pic.twitter.com/xBMRKWmOA9

From 1 to 10 how would you rate your #UCLGMeets experience? Fernando Santomauro from UCLG World Secretariat @UCLGLearning shares the results! More #UCLGMeets tomorrow! pic.twitter.com/P1YdUbWnvY

A lot of topics are brought together in this session! We are now talking about the need to build bridges between national governments and LRGs, and that collaboration between international organizations and LRG members needs to be improved. #UCLGMeets pic.twitter.com/AhoWEHhXjl

Elena Pierce (@FCM_online) underlines that UCLG's position paper on dev. cooperation in 2013 strongly informed the national&international advocacy with regard to the launch and first years of SDGs. "The upcoming revised version will be an important building block moving ahead"pic.twitter.com/gU0LNNXMFF

The #digitalrights breakout session of the UCLG Retreat took place today! LRGs and civil society came together in the session to discuss the future of #DigitalRights advocacy for ourorganization. #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/Tx9GwKSZ05

#UCLGMeets #CitiesAreListening @OctavidelaVarga Secretary General @metropolis_org "We have come a long way together, if we look back: Agenda 2030, Habitat III… Our challenge now is not only to protect our spaces, but also to monitor & introduce a transformative impact"pic.twitter.com/HazF5Xhlaf

In the Advocacy session, it's being put in common that we must think of new mechanisms to be active agents in the development of policies: We need a planetary transformation, but it must be anchored to the links & realities of each territory! #UCLGMeets #CitiesAreListeningpic.twitter.com/265sCxcyym

#CitiesAreListening#UCLGMeets Take a glimpse of our backstage of our session Advocating with UCLG : Thank you UCLG network for making the Global Home of Local and Regional Governments a a real place of co-creation and learningpic.twitter.com/M2NmtrzvJs

#UCLGMeets@fvccre , Secretary General of @CCRECEMR : "We are in a state of change, covid is going to change completely the way we work, live and hopefully that can bring a new step towards transition and a new society"pic.twitter.com/CWNUHrUbrv

Our policy team at the World Secretariat trigger the debate by asking: How can we monitor impact of our advocacy? How can we enhance a meaningful dialogue? How can the World Secretariat learn from the network? Stay tuned #CitiesAreListening #UCLGmeetspic.twitter.com/ewBW1o6X8N

#UCLGmeeets #CitiesAreListening "UCLG and @GlobalTaskforce need to keep enabling the co-creation. Focus on building institutional capacities overtime is also crucial in this pandemic" @billycobbett @CitiesAlliance Directorpic.twitter.com/I1oSAh4ENA

#UCLGMeets#CitiesAreListening "We have been extremely successful in the way we have been advocating, and we have been more successful when we have done it together" @UCLG_Saiz , Secretary General of UCLG.pic.twitter.com/lNMBI4DAJ0

Culture as core component of solidarity & tool for coexistence & freedom. The #2020RomeCharter/right to participate to cultural life as condition the achievement of #2030Agenda #SDGs. Join the UCLG #CultureSummit: http://agenda21culture.net/summit/uclg-culture-summit-2021 … @tuncsoyer, Mayor @izmirbld #UCLGmeetspic.twitter.com/j87qaxmers

Mayor @ellen_selm of Opsterland & member of @VNGemeenten board mentions that regional solutions require good cooperation between all partners & types of local governments. "Moving forward, @uclg_org should continue to include both the rural&urban perspective, in its policy work"pic.twitter.com/ZQRn2JThko

Secretary General, Iñaki Susaeta, joined the @GlobalTaskforce session with fellow networks to discuss how to take our joint advocacy to the next level: "We must include regional governments, recognise their political mandate and co-create with them." #UCLGMeets #RegionsVoicepic.twitter.com/If3DwaeSph

#UCLGMeetsIñaki Susaeta, Secretario General de @Regions4: "En el actual contexto marcado por la covid y por la emergencia climática, hay múltiples crisis interconectadas y una oportunidad: para reconocer el papel clave de las regiones en las soluciones" #CitiesAreListeningpic.twitter.com/6msFs2DFum

#UCLGMeets #CitiesAreListening We're developing many more partnerships & we have gained a lot of trust with our online tools! Advocating now is not what we did yesterday: we're advocating online, new opportunities to connect, to voice towards the @UN" -Jean Baptiste @uclg_orgpic.twitter.com/Vixhk5CT6U

¡Comienza la sesión que analizará lo que se necesita para llevar nuestra incidencia global al siguiente nivel! #CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets Co-creando a través de una lluvia de ideas haremos una lluvia de ideas para reinventar espacios y herramientas de cocreaciónpic.twitter.com/T9ndMCIzkE

Advocating with UCLG #CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets The session that will look at what is needed to take our global advocacy to the next level begins Co-creating through brainstorming we will brainstorm to reinvent spaces and tools for co-creation. pic.twitter.com/ATdObywFUV

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets "I would like to express my solidarity to the City of Lampedusa. We do work together towards the wellbeing of the migrant men, women & children who have been driven to leave their country & move to our cities" Mohammed Wajdi City of Sfaxpic.twitter.com/vG4BVCGWYs

#UCLGMeets @tuncsoyer, Mayor @izmirbld announces that on June 10th there will be a launch the UCLG #CultureSummit (9-11 Sept, Izmir) with digital meetings. "We will work in the line of the #2020RomeCharter & the right to participate in cultural life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7snmZXng3k …pic.twitter.com/UYC14DWIeq

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets "A vital next step is to open all political channels so that cities, local governments and communities have access to decision- making" Coleen Thouez, Director of International Migration Initiative @OpenSocietypic.twitter.com/R157j0rDbg

Alicia Trejo de @CongopeEcuador sostuvo: "tenemos que aprovechar este momento de reactivación eco y social para invertir en servicios públicos e infraestructuras que fomenten mayor accesibilidad e inclusión" #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/TGjuXR4Doc

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets The development cooperation team reporting back to the stocktaking session highlighted how capacities can be enhanced through innovation, and what can be the mechanisms for cooperationpic.twitter.com/s7wsRUDlwg

@HLagrelius, @BlindUnion: "Learning modules are a great way to showcase practices led by organisations of persons with disabilities in collaboration with local authorities and a space where UCLG can steer the agenda and inspire its members" #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/nC7ywLnIvT

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets Federico Poitier from the World Secretariat reporting back to the stocktaking session: "Transformation after the pandemic was tackled, with data showing how many people were left behind & looking at how accessibility is a key driver"pic.twitter.com/dABTE7bjTn

#UCLGMeetsLas ideas compartidas en la sesión de trabajo de #GenerationEquality nos permitirán sincronizar nuestro trabajo en el marco de la #Agenda2030 y #Beijing+25 para impulsar acuerdos y compromisos hacia una debida inclusión de género en las agendas. #CitiesAreListeningpic.twitter.com/6pvcOQZHVU

@victorpineda, from @WorldEnabled highlighted "25% of people that move around cities experience barriers. The biggest challenge to make our cities more inclusive and accessible is not necessarily the lack of funding, but rather the lack of awareness. #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/0g11LRemaj

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets Antonello del Gabinete de la Alcaldía de Lampedusa reporta a la sesión de evaluación: "La Carta de Lampedusa debe incluir los valores de CGLU y Lampedusa con conceptos de todas las comunidades. Todas las ciudades deben reconocerse en ella"pic.twitter.com/FJlZ4QULfa

The #UCLGMeets breakout session on Accessibility was an opportunity to take stock of the inclusion and accessibility agenda led by UCLG in close collaboration with partners and introduce the learning modules on building cities for all.pic.twitter.com/KkY4Hzrro7

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets Alex Frediani @Xapsan reporting back to the stocktaking session "I think care allows us to think in terms on how territories can also be caring, in the way we design & plan them, so we can look at places in our cities in a caring way"pic.twitter.com/0stGjSNW2r

Hoy con @Paradiplomacia participamos del primer retiro anual de @uclg_org y de la sala de grupo sobre cooperación descentralizada. Felicitaciones @UCLG_Saiz y equipo! #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/lUCrFBK8Hp

Today at [OUR VOICES] @uclg_org TV channel you can find interesting interviews with local leaders including some interviews on #ParticipatoryDemocracy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdNeWWJXUoCClSld9H5DE67AwjDgxFqg … #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/fcMNjiRIWo

"The Lampedusa Peace Proposal acknowledges that there is no process of co-creation without building on our local experiences, leveraging on diversity. The network needs to remain engaged" Antonello Ravetto Mayor's office of the city of Lampedusa #UCLGMeets #CitiesAreListeningpic.twitter.com/s1ZTY3N1k9

#CitiesAreListening #UCLGMeets Some rights fail cause they are attached to the wrong level of governance. Citizenship is attached to member states That's why is key to shed light on what #localgov are doing on Global Citizenship Education https://platforma-dev.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Raising-citizens-awareness-through-development-education-EN.pdf … @Platforma4Devpic.twitter.com/dj2SqBRCGv

#UCLGMeets Minister for culture @eavogadro of Buenos Aires @gcba recalls the role that culture is playing during the pandemic, and explains the 2020 Rome Charter, focused on the Right to Participate in Cultural Life.pic.twitter.com/LYv7eoTiqk

At the annual #UCLGMeets retreat we have explained this year's thematic priorities to contribute to the pact for the future and announce the call for the IOPD Award 2021 https://oidp.net/distinction/en/index.php … https://twitter.com/uclg_org/status/1361683950201143306 …pic.twitter.com/ILMseZXwrX

Today, @eavogadro affirms, "Cultural Rights are more important than ever": to empower people, to rethink what citizenship means, and to make public spaces are truly owned by all #UCLGMeetspic.twitter.com/Lx2rf3DPAm

Milou Jansen from Amsterdam City Council (@AmsterdamNL) is framing digital rights strategy at #UCLGMeets Universal and equal access Privacy Transparency and accountability Participatory Democracy Open and ethical service standardspic.twitter.com/EIqMpddd4G

Wonderful launch at #UCLGmeets of the research undertaken by the @IDS_UK team led by @JaiGupte to sustain a renewed Policy paper on local government and development cooperation, supported by @cooperaciocatpic.twitter.com/dQ4M6OGrW8