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Ce blog se veut un espace de partage de connaissances, d'opinions, de plaidoyer et de débat, à la fois entre les membres de CGLU mais aussi avec la communauté internationale de gouvernements locaux et régionaux. Contributions et commentaires sont les bienvenus, de toute personne qui s'intéresse à la façon dont les gouvernements locaux et régionaux peuvent faire du monde un meilleur endroit pour leurs citoyens, sont ici les bienvenus.

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The Bridge and the City - A universal love story
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Sustainable urbanization - 15/05/2015
Across countries and centuries, this book explores a fundamental social and demographic change: the emergence of a planet of towns and cities. But it looks at this densification of human and economic relations through a specific lens, the increased connectivity triggered by strategic urban bridges. (+)
Local and Regional Governments bring our own agenda to Habitat III
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Habitat III, Global Agenda, City-to-city learning - 13/05/2015
In UCLG consultations in the run up to Habitat III, intermediary cities warn that national governments and international institutions underestimate their role in development at their own risk. (+)
City control of development financing at issue ahead of key negotiations
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Local Finance - 06/05/2015
Sufficient trillions of dollars for anti-poverty, climate and broad development efforts worldwide are being debated in the run-up to a key conference in Addis Ababa this July. In the process, a parallel key issue has emerged: Where’s the voice for cities, where the lion’s share of future development must occur? (+)
Localizing the Habitat III agenda
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Habitat III, Urban Agenda - 04/05/2015
The time is ripe for the U.N. system to recognize the special status of contributions from local and regional authorities — coming, as they do, from a sphere of government. (+)
Local priorities to tackle economic development challenges and fight poverty
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Development Cooperation, Decentralized cooperation - 24/04/2015
By Nomveliso Nyukwana, Mayor of Emalahleni, South Africa How can we empower local governments as leaders of development? Before answering this important question, I wish to first address why local governments should be leaders of development strategies. We have heard it many times... (+)
A ‘universal’ financing for development agenda?
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Local Finance, Local Finance and Development - 21/04/2015
For the first time, the international development agenda, through the FfD3 and post-2015 processes, is considered universal, applying to every country. Current deliberations, however, reveal different understandings of what universality means. (+)

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