United Cities and Local Governments
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is a worldwide association of cities, towns and other local authorities that advocates the interests of its members on a global level. As an umbrella organization, it comprises around 175 regional and national associations representing a total of around 240,000 municipalities.
Organization and members
UCLG was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Barcelona . The association is organized in nine sections. These include seven regional sections for the continents, of which the Council of Municipalities and Regions of Europe corresponds to the European section. Further sections are Metropolis as an association of large agglomerations and a forum of the regions. In total, UCLG comprises around 175 individual associations with around 240,000 municipalities, which, according to its own information, corresponds to around five billion people or 70% of the world's population. A large part of the municipalities belonging to the UCLG belong to the UCLG through national associations, more than 1,000 municipalities join as members directly organized in the UCLG. The working languages of the association are English , French and Spanish .
UCLG represents the interests of local authorities at international level, including vis-à-vis the United Nations and the World Bank . He also aims to work in networks to promote cooperation and exchange between municipalities. Its central goals include strengthening the competencies of local administration and politics, democratic governance from the local to the global level, and supporting the United Nations' sustainable development goals and their successful implementation at the local level.
history
The Union Internationale des Villes , founded in 1913 in Ghent , Belgium, was a first forerunner organization of the association . The association, based in Brussels, comprised a council with 30 members, but was prevented from further work in the following year by the beginning of the First World War. In the 1920s the members came together again for several congresses. With the League of Nations , an international organization of states was founded in 1920. In 1928, the international association of local authorities changed its name to International Union of Local Authorities (French Union Internationale des Collectivités Locales ). The United Towns Organization (French: Fédération mondiale des cités unies ), founded in 1957 in Aix-les-Bains (France ) and the Metropolis, founded in 1984 as an association of large agglomerations, were added as further international associations for local authorities . On May 5, 2004, the UCLG was founded from the union of the three previously existing associations.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c World Association of Local Authorities “United Cities and Local Governments” , rgre.de. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Who we are , uclg.org. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
- ^ Centenary of the International Municipal Movement , uclg.org. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
- ^ New international organization to champion the interest of cities, citymayors.com. Retrieved March 25, 2020.