United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

It is the largest local governments organization worldwide with the stated mission of promoting the values, objectives and interests of cities and of local governments. Its World Secretariat in Barcelona, it includes individual cities and municipalities as well as national and international associations of local governments. It currently groups over 1,000 local governments across the five continents.

Its objectives single out the contribution local governments can make to fight poverty and hunger by fostering the productive development of cities and their areas of influence. CIDEU’s creation results, among other reasons, from the need to trigger a change in the relations between cities and international financial institutions such as the InterAmerican Development Bank or the World Bank, in pursue of a more direct contact, less conditioned by other government levels like, for instance, federal governments.

On the other hand, CGLU intends to channel funding cities can receive from different United Nations agencies, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UNESCO or UNICEF.

FLACMA, the Latin American Federation of Cities, Local Governments and Associations is the Latin American section of the world organisation of local governments. It was created with the main purpose of strengthening and unifying the voices of local governments expressed in different organisations in Latin America.

At the II World UCLG’s Congress celebrated in Jeju, South Korea, in November 2007, authorities for the 2007/     term were renewed....

President:

Bertrand Delante, Mayor of Paris, France.

Co-presidents:

Zhang Guangning, Mayor of Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Amos Masondo, Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa

Paco Moncayo, Mayor of Quito, Ecuador

Kadis Topbas, Mayor of Istanbul, Turkey.