New Urban Agenda

Local governments call for UN Member States to be brave and bold at Habitat III

30 Jun 2016
The Global Taskforce gave feedback on the revised Zero Draft on behalf of local and regional governments at the Informal Intergovernmental Sessions on...

Roadmap for achieving the SDGs at local level

27 Jun 2016
  The Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments has partnered with UNDP and UN-Habitat to draw up a roadmap to support local and ...

Are UN Member States listening to cities in the Habitat III process? Local networks analyse the latest draft of the New Urban Agenda for Habitat III

24 Jun 2016
The latest draft of the New Urban Agenda reveals that the voices of cities and territories are having an impact, but Habitat III must go further if it...

Local and regional governments at PrepCom3 of Habitat III in Surabaya

21 Jun 2016
A delegation of the Global Taskforce will be in Surabaya from June 24 to 27 to share our feedback on the latest draft of the New Urban Agenda and to c...

Local and regional governments call for recognition as a sphere of the state in SDG follow-up process

29 May 2016
The call comes in response to the release of the draft resolution for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda by the High Level Political Forum ch...

Second World Assembly calls for UN and states to listen to cities at Habitat III Local Authorities Hearings

19 May 2016
From 15-17 May 2016, over 100 representatives of sub-national governments from around the world gathered at UN headquarters in New York to share o...