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The Panel’s report recommends a governance system in which all spheres of government, including local and regional governments, play a strong role in policy development, in close partnership with civil society and other actors. More specifically, it calls for a formal role for a Local Government Committee in a renewed UN Habitat governance structure.

A delegation of local and regional governments will attend the 5th High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) from 10-19 July, 2017, where they will present a report on the role of local and regional governments in implementing and monitoring the SDGs.

A delegation facilitated by UCLG in partnership with other members of the Global Taskforce participates in the 2017 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development follow-up takes place in New York from the 22nd to 25th of May 2017

From 8-12 May a delegation of local leaders and networks of the Global Taskforce participated in the 26th Session of the Governing Council of UN Habitat, the first since the adoption of the New Urban Agenda in Quito in October 2016.

The Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will take place in Edmonton, Canada, in March 2018.

À l’occasion de la 37e Assemblée générale de l’Association internationale des maires francophones (AIMF) du 19 au 22 juin 2017 à Montréal (Canada), l’apport au quotidien des femmes leaders dans la réalisation des Objectif du Développement Durable