🎬 We’re hiring!
We are looking for an Audiovisual Communication Officer to join our team!
📍 Barcelona (full-time role)
🎥 Strong audiovisual profile required
📅 Start: April 2026
📩 Read the job offer via the link below and apply!
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🟡 #UCLGMeets
🌍 Our Annual Retreat 2026 concludes! Together, we strengthened our World Organization and advanced shared priorities for the journey to #Tangier2026.
👏 Thanks to all for making it a success!
#Listen2Cities
🟡 The final day of #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 is here!
📣 Outreach strategy for an inclusive movement is about:
🌐 Local public services as a global agenda
📄 the Local Social Covenant
🤝 Network convergence to strengthen our World Organization as a federation of federations
🟡 Day 4 of #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026!
👥 A new generation of universal local public services
✨ Sessions will highlight #LRG workers, collaborative delivery of the Local Social Covenant, and strategies to strengthen local multilateralism ahead of #Tangier2026.
🟡Day 3⃣ of our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 starts!
🏛️ Democracy and Plurilateralism
👏Today, #LRGs tackle trust, leadership & collaborative delivery of the Local Social Covenant: turning rights, care & new essentials into real impact, shaping multilateral action for #Tangier2026.
🟡 Day 2⃣ of our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026 is about to start!
✨ The day will focus on the 100 Days of Local Multilateralism: a strategic cycle aligning #WUF13, #Tangier2026, the review of 10 years of the New Urban Agenda & the #HLPF into one shared political roadmap toward 2030.
This week, our director @boristonhauser.bsky.social is actively participating at @uclg.bsky.social retreat in Barcelona 🇪🇸 to shape a local & territorial vision for the world.
#UCLGMeets
🌟 Welcome to our #UCLGMeets Retreat 2026!
🔴 🔵 Kicking off with the Annual Meeting of the
@globaltaskforce.bsky.social and the first day of our Annual Retreat focusing on the Municipal Agenda in the era of change.
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#Listen2Cities
#UCLGMeets
✨ As we gear up for our Annual Retreat under the motto “Local Multilateralism HOPE and OBJECTIVE”, our membership will reaffirm its commitment to a renewed multilateral system & shape priorities toward the UCLG World Congress in #Tangier2026.
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📅 Mark your calendars! The 2025 UCLG World Council will take place in Xi’an.
🌍 For 3 days, #LocalGovs will come together to shape communities for current and future generations.
🔗 The full program: www.uclgmeets.org/conferences/...
#UCLGMeets
Isaac Eseet stands behind a podium wearing a black suit and sunny yellow tie with a red wall in the background
"Culture is not a passive victim of climate change; Culture is an active driver of solutions."
Isaac Eseet, Coordinator for CHN's Africa and Arab States Region, speaking this morning at the @uclg.bsky.social Climate Summit in Barcelona
#climateheritage #cop30 #wemaketomorrow #imaginingfutures
🌍 Learn how to localise the #SDGs through decentralised cooperation!
Free 2-month online course by @uclg.bsky.social & @platforma4dev.bsky.social with tools, practices & mentoring for Local and Regional Governments. Certificate included. Register now
👉 learningwith.uclg.org
#LocalizingSDGs
🤝Join now the @uclg.bsky.social & @platforma4dev.bsky.social #LearningCommunity through our free moderated online course on Decentralised Cooperation & #SDGs!
Applications are open until 5 October in EN, ES & FR. Don't lose time, register now! 👇
platforma-dev.eu/online-cours...
#LocalizingSDGs
📍#UCLGTownHall
💬Policies must affect territories, and cities have a voice. -
@emiliasaiz.bsky.social
Day 2 started with a call to put care at the 💜 of public policy, shaping the New Essentials and inspiring a new generation of service provision.
#LocalSocialCovenant
🗓️ Today & over the next 3 days, we'll host the UCLG Town Hall
🏠 Day 1: Housing & Transformative Local Finance
🤝 Together with #LRGs, civil society & partners, we will co-create solutions for adequate housing & stronger local finance within the #LocalSocialCovenant.
Another heartfelt thank you to our friends & colleagues @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr for inviting us to participate in this important event — and for reminding us that “proximity is first and foremost about intent”
@uclg.bsky.social
#UrbanHealth
💡Curious to know more about how to design and implement a strategy for #DecentralizedCooperation and #SDGs?
🌍 Applications for the Moderated Online Course about the #DC & #SDGs are open until October 5th!
Apply in your preferred language below!
🇬🇧 t.ly/i7COH
🇪🇸 t.ly/347TW
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💼 2 new job opportunities at #UCLG!
🚀 Join our team in Barcelona as a Program Manager or Policy Officer!
👉 Policy Officer: t.ly/btK8q
👉 Program Manager: t.ly/p8jsU
Apply now to advance the role of #LocalGovs globally!
#NowHiring #JobOpening #Careers
🎨 "Public art is not just aesthetics. It is also a matter of bonding communities"— Jordi Pascual, coordinator of @uclg.bsky.social
In our latest webinar, Jordi underscored the importance of urban arts for inclusive cities.
🌆 Follow us to learn how local governments explores urban arts
📢 Just launched! The 9th GOLD Report, Towards the Localization of the SDGs, is out!
🌍💼💙 Explore how #LocalGovs are advancing #SDG3 (health), #SDG5 (gender), #SDG8 (decent work), & #SDG14 (life below water)
📘Read the full report + 4 deep dives
gold.uclg.org/sites/defaul...
#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
Pour la 4ème Conférence du développement organisée par l'ONU à Séville, l'Assemblée Mondiale des gouvernements locaux et régionaux s'est réunie pour faire entendre sa voix.
En tant que co-chair du Conseil politique sur les finances de @uclg.bsky.social, je fus honoré d'en avoir été le porte-parole.
🕸 Tejiendo alianzas en la Asamblea Mundial de Gobiernos Locales y Regionales de @uclg.bsky.social en Sevilla.
🤝 La secretaria de Estado de Cooperación Internacional, @evagranados.bsky.social, destacó la presencia de la localización en el consensuado #CompromisoDeSevilla de la Conferencia #FfD4
🤝 The UN Local2030 Coalition was proud to partner on the World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments, held on the margins of #FFD4.
We reaffirmed our commitment to elevate local leadership and solutions in global financing dialogues.
📈 Localizing finance is not optional — it’s fundamental.
🥝 How are #LocalGovs addressing food insecurity?
👩💻 Discover our new MOOC with Let's Food: a free online course to explore the role of territories in building fairer food systems.
🕒 2–3 hours of practical tools, local stories & action-oriented insights.
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This #WorldRefugeeDay, we stand in solidarity #WithRefugees & all people on the move.
Via our new Local Coalition w/ UN partners, we commit to advance Global Compacts while building a safer future, centered on territorial solidarity & rights, for & by all communities.
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#NotABorderTale
📍 At #U20SouthAfrica, UCLG ASG of Partnerships
@pablofmarmissolle.bsky.social highlights the Local Social Covenant to rebuild multilateralism: placing housing, local finance, and public health at the 💜, while embracing solidarity, feminist leadership, and #ClimateJustice from the ground up.
🤝 The EU Commission & CEMR reaffirm commitment to empower LRGs in global cooperation.
🌍 President of @uclg.bsky.social met with Commissioner Jozef Sikela to explore how to make initiatives like #GlobalGateway more effective on the ground.
📄 @uclg.bsky.social President Jan van Zanen presented today our Political declaration on the #NextMFF to @ec.europa.eu for International Partnerships Jozef Síkela
❗️He expressed his concern for the drastic reduction of development budgets globally
👉 Read it now! platforma-dev.eu/wp-content/u...
100 local governments officials & practitioners came together to discuss care-infrastructure. It is energizing to see this level of commitment for a positive agenda that can change lives of people for the better. Follow our work here. #GOLDVII @uclg.bsky.social
www.uclgmeets.org/processes/Co...
