United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA)
What is UCLG? United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is a world organization dedicated to promoting the values, objectives and interests of cities and local governments. UCLG operates from its headquarters in Barcelona (Spain), and from its 9 regional sections located in different UCLG’s members include individual cities and national associations of local governments, which represent all the cities and local governments in a single country.
UCLG World Organization Citizens Local Towns Cities Metropolises National Local Government Associations National Middle Asia- Euro- East and Latin North Metropolitan Oru- Regional Africa Europe Pasific Asia West America America Section Fogar Asia United Cities and Local Governments World
How is UCLG governed? UCLG World Organization is governed by the General Assembly, the World Council, the Executive Bureau, the Co-Presidents, the Treasurer & the Secretary General. 4th UCLG World Congress Rabat (Morocco) 1-4 October 2013
How is UCLG governed? UCLG Executive Bureau Meeting, Liverpool (UK), 17-19 June 2014
What is UCLG-MEWA? Being one of the 9 regional sections of the UCLG World Organization, United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia (UCLG- MEWA) operates from its headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. UCLG-MEWA has a large network of members including cities and union of municipalities.
UCLG-MEWA Members UCLG-MEWA membership categories : National unions of local authorities (Union of Municipalities of Turkey, Association of Palestinian Local Authorities…) Major metropolises in the region Individual cities and local authorities International organization: Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities (OICC), Arab Towns Organization (ATO)… Non-governmental organization
How is UCLG-MEWA Governed? UCLG-MEWA is governed by the General Assembly, UCLG-MEWA Council, the Executive Bureau, the Presidency, the Treasurer & the Secretary General. UCLG-MEWA Congress, Tehran (Iran), 10-11 April 2013
How is UCLG-MEWA Governed? UCLG - MEWA Executive Bureau and Council joint M eeting Konya (Turkey), 19-20-21 December 2013
Advocacy • Within the framework of UCLG World Organization activities, UCLG-MEWA participates in the consultation process on the post-2015 Development Agenda and the preparation of Habitat-III Conference. • These two events give UCLG-MEWA members great opportunities to voice its views in international debates and to put local governments as key actors of development in the MEWA region. • In this regard UCLG-MEWA is the privileged relay between UCLG World Organization and local authorities of the region.
Committees and Working Groups • Through UCLG Committees and Working Groups UCLG-MEWA carries out activities in various spheres such as “Decentralization, Local Finance, Development Cooperation and City Diplomacy, Gender Equality, Culture, Sustainable Development”. • These issues are among the most discussed ones at local, regional, national and international levels. • UCLG-MEWA Secretariat General coordinates the relations between the different Committees and Working Groups allowing UCLG-MEWA members to access solutions developed within the whole membership of UCLG World Organization.
Committees and Working Groups Committees established under the umbrella of UCLG-MEWA: • Culture • Social Inclusion • Environment • Smart Cities • Local Governance
Decentralized Cooperation • Decentralized cooperation designates cooperation between sub-national authorities. It represents an innovative way of supplementing development assistance and to develop international relations of municipalities. • More specific than traditional twinning agreements of decentralized cooperation can also be a first step to long term relationships. • Delimited in time, objectives of decentralized cooperation focused on community development such as meeting basics needs, municipal capacity development, urban planning, water supplying, garbage collection, sustainable development etc.
Active involvement in the activities of the UCLG World Organization
UCLG World Council Meetings (Istanbul & Guangzhou)
Active lnvolvement in United Nations & Other Global lnitiatives
Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, 31 May-1 June 2012, Istanbul
3W Congress 22-24 May 2013 Istanbul
UCLG-MEWA has coordinated the fiscal decentralization studies in the region conducted under the 2nd phase of the Global Observatory for Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD).
UCLG-MEWA has become one of the Founding Members of the “Global Fund for Cities Development” FMDV GLOBAL FUND FOR CITIES DEVELOPMENT
UCLG-MEWA: Coordinating Turkey ’s Local Agenda 21 Program (world- wide “best practice”)
• LA-21 Program is conducted under the Framework Agreement between UNDP & the Government of Turkey (Published in the Official Gazette as an “International Agreement”) • United Cities and • Coordinating Local Governments, Agency: Middle East & West Asia Section
LOCAL GOVERNMENT TALKS As United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia (UCLG-MEWA), we organize "Local Government Talks" aiming to bring together academics and local government actors.
City (Citizens ’ ) Councils United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia Regional Organization has a very important role in the processes related to the development of the City Council. During the program period, our Organization is a support between the City Councils in many fields such as: communication and cooperation coordination; the sharing of good practices; women and youth projects; the execution of financial services; international relations and consulting.
City (Citizens ’ ) Councils As UCLG-MEWA, our aim is to make City Councils of Turkey work more efficiently in order to contribute to the development of local governance, local democracy and participatory democracy. In this context, our Organization has led the establishment of Association of Turkish Union of City Councils. It is required to work more effectively and efficiently to improve cooperation and coordination between the City Councils.
City (Citizens ’ ) Councils According to the protocol signed between UCLG-MEWA and the General Directorate of Local Authorities in Ministry of Interior, UCLG-MEWA gave the executive power to financial transactions of City Councils. In this context, our organization execute financial transactions of nine City Councils such as: - Yalova CC - Nilüfer CC - Çanakkale CC - Diyarbakır CC - Antalya CC - Malatya CC - Kocaeli CC - Batman CC - Gölcük CC
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