Every year UN-Habitat and partners organise a month of activities, events and discussions around urban sustainability in October. Urban October is a time of raising awareness, promoting participation, generating knowledge…
The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres launched a new partnership strategy with the world’s 1.8 billion young people on September 24, to help put “their ideas into action”. He noted…
September 25, 2018 marks the third Anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The document named ‘Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, containing 17…
When: 16-18 May 2017 Where: Egmont Palace Conference Center, Brussels (Belgium) Hosted by the Belgian Development Agency (BTC), the 12th DeLoG Annual Meeting will take place from May 16-18, in…
“Decentralisation is a major condition for strong local governments and sustainable urban development.” This strong message was sent out by the participants of the DeLoG side event on the “Empowerment…
DeLoG hosted an event on Decentralisation and Subsidiarity: Empowerment of local governments as development actors through multi-level partnerships at the German Pavilion. List of speakers Mr. Emilio Rodas Panique, Vice Minister…
Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, UNDP and UN-Habitat launched platform on localising the SDGs. The virtual platform is conceived as a space for learning, sharing and discussing. Users…
Bambang Susantono, Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) underscored the critical role of subnational governments in achieving global targets during his opening remarks…
Read the draft here. After the release of the Surabaya Draft of the New Urban Agenda at the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the Habitat III Conference in…