🟡 UCLG Executive Bureau Business Session

📍 Room: Paris | 🔗 Zoom link | 💬 Interpretation : English - French - Spanish - Turkish - Chinese - Korean - Russian

🎯 Description:

The Executive Bureau, which gathers twice a year, is composed of 116 political representatives nominated from all world regions. The Bureau is responsible for initiating proposals and carrying out the decisions of the World Council. It is in charge of the World Organization’s administrative and financial management and prepares the ground for the content of the meetings of the World Council. The Bureau also makes recommendations about international processes and policies, and the production of policy papers.

📜 Agenda:

The state of the global municipal agenda

│ 1. Presidency Foresight for 2025

│ 2. Report of the Executive Bureau in The Hague

│ 3. Report of the Financial Management Committee

│ 4. Report of the Committee on Statutory Affairs

I. Local and Regional Governments at the Frontline of Democracy

│ 5. World Forum of Intermediary Cities

│ 6. World Forum of Cities and Territories of Peace

│ 7. Conference of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy

│ 8. Updates on the UCLG Culture Summit and Culture 21 Plus

II. Forging the New Social Contract

│ 9. Forging Leadership for Equality

│ 10. Youth Visions shaping Local Actions

│ 11. Teaming up with Nature

│ 12. The Hague Charter on Municipal Peace

III. Local Finance critical to Development and Multilaterlism

│ 13. Towards the United Nations Conference on Finance for Development

A policy debate on the preparation to the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will take place in the framework of the business session of the Executive Bureau.

Please find the concept note of the debate here.

📌 Key documents:

▶️ Executive Bureau's Members-only digital space 🔐.

 Members of the Executive Bureau may access further information related to the meeting through this link (to do so, please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Those who are not members will not be able to access this members-only area. Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.

▶️ Background documents 🔐. 

Only available to Members of the Executive Bureau (please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.