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European Development Days
Tuesday, 16/06/2015
The European Development Days (EDDs) were held on 3 and 4 June, as part of the European Year for Development 2015. The motto for this year was ‘Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future’, and it provided an opportunity for European actors in development to...
Start of the ‘Think of Housing, Live the City’ competition
Tuesday, 16/06/2015
The Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Design of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), together with UN-Habitat, have organised the competition ‘Think of Housing, Live the City’ as part of Habitat III, the third UN Conference on...
Ghana
Ghana maintains its commitment to decentralisation
Tuesday, 16/06/2015
On 14 May, the World Bank and the Government of Ghana published a report on urbanisation in Ghana entitled ‘Rising through Cities in Ghana’, which analyses the growing challenges posed by the country’s urbanisation, including consolidation of the...
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Local governments call for greater involvement in the Post-2015 indicators
Tuesday, 16/06/2015
Local governments, through the main Local Authorities Group, part of the Global Task Force, have sent a letter to the joint presidents of the intergovernmental negotiations on the 2015 development agenda asking for formal mechanism to take part in the...
Dret Ciutat
Declaration on the Right to the City
Tuesday, 16/06/2015
From 20 to 22 April, the UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights and Mexico City organised the International Seminar of Local Governments for the Right to the City in Mexico City. The Seminar brought together 45 local...
Nairobi hosts PrepCom2 and UN-Habitat Governing Council
Monday, 04/05/2015
From 17 to 23 April, the UN-Habitat Governing Council took place in Nairobi (Kenya). The main topic of discussion of the 25th session was ‘The contribution of UN-Habitat to the Post-2015 Development Agenda’ in order to promote sustainable urban...

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