🔴 🔵 Yesterday, our organized constituency came together to defend multilateralism & amplify local voices in a rapidly changing global landscape.
As multilateralism evolves, #LocalGovs stand ready to adapt: playing a 🔑 role in shaping & strengthening local multilateralism.
🌟 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
📢 #Listen2Cities
Our Annual Meeting is being held as part of the @uclg.bsky.social Retreat, where the following topics will be discussed:
➡️ Our Constituency Towards the Multilateral Agenda
➡️ Key milestones & partnerships for 2026
➡️ Fostering Ecological Transformation
🌐 As discussions on the post-2030 agenda begin, our Annual Meeting during the @uclg.bsky.social Annual Retreat will consolidate the voice of #LocalGovs to shape a renewed global framework: grounded in local democracy, public services & territorial cohesion.
🗓️ 23.02.2026
#Listen2Cities
✨ #Listen2Cities
@berryonline.bsky.social, Mayor Kitchener, Presents the 9th @globaltaskforce.bsky.social Report to #HLPF2025
🗣️“The Report makes this clear: The global agendas can only be achieved if understood as one, with interconnected goals, implemented from the ground"
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💬 Mr. Sithole Mbanga, CEO, South African Local Governments Association, @globaltaskforce.bsky.social, highlighted that cross-regional exchange of financial strategies can unlock innovative approaches to funding and investment, allowing localized solutions to scale and thrive. @fmdv.bsky.social
Our director @boristonhauser.bsky.social is attending #CSW69 with a delegation of @ccre-cemr.bsky.social & @globaltaskforce.bsky.social local leaders
They are advocating for the essential role of local and regional governments in promoting #GenderEquality
#LocalGov #Power2Her #WomenInPolitics
Always a pleasure to participate at @uclg.bsky.social & @globaltaskforce.bsky.social meetings
Our director @boristonhauser.bsky.social is there to represent our pan-European coalition and exchange on the added value of decentralised cooperation
#CountdownTo2030 #Listen2Cities #LocalizingSDGs
Today we will discuss youth action for sustainability; localization and climate justice! 🙌 local and territorial partnerships for global impact!
🔴🔵 Rainer Kern, Exec. Director Global Parliament of Mayors
💬 This is a space to reflect on what we need to change & improve to maximize our effectiveness. It's also an opportunity for our constituency to collaborate closely on the efforts ahead and on the engagement w/ States.
#Listen2Cities
🔴🔵"We are in a time of unprecedented challenges and need solutions where local and regional governments #LRGs step up. We can do better in mobilizing public opinion, giving visibility to our achievements, to stories of transformation and impact."
Uribe Pando, SG Regions4
🔴🔵 Yunus Arikan, Director of Global Advocacy,
@iclei.org
💬We should think beyond the status quo & speak loudly to ensure the new multilateralism is more inclusive & goes where we want it to. We should continue to reinforce the relation of member states & our constituency.
🔵"Our constituency must provide hope and🌏collaboration. We ensure social services, protect people and facilitate inclusion. #LRGs are a bridge to reach communities & meaningfully engaging with #youth"
Donna Hume, @c40cities.bsky.social Director External Engagement, Advocacy & Campaigns
🔴🔵 @emiliasaiz.bsky.social, SG @uclg.bsky.social
🇺🇳We must strengthen our voice & engage meaningfully w/ @un.org
Member States through a clear operational roadmap. Having already established the means for our interlocution, we're ready to take action.
#Listen2Cities
📢 #Listen2Cities
The principals of the #GlobalTaskforce meet to work together to:
✨Build hope in the current multilateral context
💬Discuss the lessons learned from 2024 and scaling our self-organization
💪🏾Strengthening collaboration towards 2030
🔴🔵"El 6º @worldledforum.bsky.social es nuestro: organizado desde los #gobslocales. Hablaremos de financiación, cuidados y desarrollo económico local en un contexto donde la globalización ha demostrado sus límites hacia la post-globalización".
Carles Lloren, SG ORUFOGAR
🔴🔵 Frédéric Vallier, SG of the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF)
💬We're witnessing the withdrawal of many States from global action & the reduction of development aid 💰. #LRGs must be in the front line to build a 🌎 where a different future is possible.
#Listen2cities
🔴"It's crucial to focus on how we deliver our resilience agenda. We must maintain a holistic approach—investing in people & institutions, bringing diversity to the table, rethinking investments to ensure communities remain in the driver’s seat."
Lauren Sorkin, Resilient Cities Network
🔴🔵 During the Global Taskforce Day, Almudena Maillo, Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas, underscores that in this new paradigm where people must be at the center of policies, networks must persevere in representing local and regional govts, and citizens on the global stage.
#Listen2Cities
#Listen2Cities
🗨️In Seville, throughout the #SevillaWorldForumLED and #FfD4, we aim to achieve an ambitious yet realistic agenda, action-oriented and with concrete commitments from all.
Sergio Colina Martín, Director General for Sustainable Development Policies @cooperacionespanola.es
📢 #Listen2Cities
🔑Partners of the Global Taskforce present the processes in which we are collaborating and key milestones for the year:
✅Global Gateway
✅Informality Task Force
✅FfD4
✅Localization Agenda at Local2030Coalition
✅ #Mondiacult2025
🚩 @pablomarmisol.bsky.social, @uclg.bsky.social org
ASG, opens the roundtable:
🔵🔴Strengthening our #GlobalTaskforce towards the #CountdownTo2030💪🏾
🔴🔵 Paz Portales, Education Programme Specialist @unesco.org
🗣️The #Mondiacult2025 conference aims to be a global conversation that contributes to positioning culture as 🔑 to all dimensions of #SustDev. We aim to have a stand-alone goal for culture in the post-2030 Agenda.
🔴🔵"Spain is fostering the localization agenda in multilateralism, making sure the #localgovs are recognized. We will continue to do so at🔑milestones such as the #FfD4 and @worldledforum.bsky.social"
Sergio Colina Martin, Dir Gen for Sustainable Development Policies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
🔴🔵 Sébastien Vauzelle, Head of Secretariat of Local2030 Coalition
💬 #LRGs are 🔑 to achieve #SustDev.
The local level is where the social contract materializes, where democracy exists. We want to empower local actors, scale up solutions & operationalize the localization of the #SDGs.
🔴🔵 Andrea Ferrari, Head of Sector for Local Authorities of ec.europa.eu stresses that the collaborative approach, including a consultation platform w/ local authorities & communities, has become 🔑 to the EU’s new international coop. strategy: the Global Gateway
#Listen2Cities
🔴🔵"In a scenario marked by new migration waves, cities without slums are not achievable, but we can transform them with public services and socioeconomic integration, creating resilient communities. And we need to do it together."
🗨️ Greg Munro Director Cities Alliance
🔴🔵"As #GlobalTaskforce, we have faced some challenges for many years but there are new complexities in this period. We want to think about our impact, find new spaces and see the big picture".
🗨️Lucy Slack SG of @clgf.bsky.social
🔴🔵 @uclg.bsky.social SG @emiliasaiz.bsky.social opens the Global Taskforce Day, remembering us that in these difficult times, it is time to regroup, assess what works and does not around 3 axes:
1️⃣Regain trust
2️⃣Resilience
3️⃣Vision
Identify how to contribute to the peace agenda.
#Listen2Cities
📢 #Listen2Cities
The Annual Meeting of the Global Taskforce takes place in the framework of the
@uclg.bsky.social
Retreat discussing:
🔑Key Milestones and Partnerships for 2025🌏
✨Strengthening our #GTF towards the #CountdownTo2030
