Announcements
Announcements
Urban Strategic Planning, Sustainable urbanization - 28/01/2014
The period for entering candidatures for the City to City Barcelona FAD Award 2014 is now open until the 14th of March. The award, which has the support of Barcelona City Hall, is organised and granted by the FAD (Fostering Arts and Design). Its objective is to recognise experiences that occur, are undergone or are generated in cities in order to provide responses that will bring a transforming and positive effect to that city and its citizens. (+)
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UCLG announces the opening of the “International Award UCLG - Mexico City - Culture 21”. The objective of the Award, promoted by Mexico City and the Culture Committee, is to recognize leading cities and people that have distinguished themselves through their contribution to culture as a dimension of sustainable development. (+)
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Local Governance, Gender Equality - 16/01/2014
A call for applications on Gender Mainstreaming and Female Leadership from The Hague Academy for Local Governance has been launched. The Academy calls for applications from local government practitioners for its Talent for Governance programme organised from ... (+)
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Global Taskforce, UN advocacy - 13/01/2014
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The seventh session of the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group (OWG) came to an end after five days of discussion among member states, UN representatives and partners.
The Group is charged with the definition of the Sustainable Development Goals (... (+)
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Gender Equality, United Nations advocacy - 09/01/2014
The United Nations will celebrate the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) from 10 to 21 March 2014 in New York with the participation of the UCLG Standing Committee of Gender Equality and 14 members representing the Organization.
CSW is the principal UN... (+)
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Global Taskforce, Sustainable Urban Goal, UN advocacy - 07/01/2014
A stand-alone sustainable development goal would comply with paragraph 247 of the Rio Declaration, which underlines that goals should, “address and be focused on priority areas for the achievement of sustainable development”, and be, “global in nature, and universally applicable to all... (+)