The Mayor Altay uttered that “We are very pleased to be represented here as Konya and Turkey. Turkey’s and Konya’s flag will wave in one more international platform. We are carrying out studies on identifying the problems of all local governments in the world and creating new solution proposals. We have prepared a Decalogue about what can be done as local governments during pandemic which especially the whole world had to be faced. In this process, we tried to create a support for local governments by sharing Turkey’s and Konya’s experiences and tried to contribute to the process of determining a road map.”
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), which is one of the most important representatives of local governments and continuously supports local development, has witnessed damages of Covid-19 in cities and prepared a Decalogue for the post Covid-19 era:
1) Guaranteeing Public Services
2) Financial Support Packages
3) Proximity models of global consumption and production
a) A territorial approach to food systems should guarantee not only security but also greater sustainability models in which many small producers and small processors, respectful of the environment, would restore life to our territories and encourage job creation and local development.
4) A worldwide green deal
5) New citizenship and freedoms for renewed democracy
6) Generation Equality
7) Territories that care for their public providers
8) Culture as an antidote for the secondary effects
9) An interurban system
10) Next Generation Multilateralism
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) can be defined as globally the most active organization for local and regional governments. After a long process which started in the Habitat II Conference in 1996 in Istanbul, IULA (International Union of Local Authorities) and FMCU-UTO (World Federation of United Cities) were united by adding METROPOLIS (the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities) and became UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments)
Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, UCLG started its actions in January, 2004. The organisation’s stated mission is “to be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community.” United Cities and Local Governments, known as UCLG in short, is at a point that it increases the role and influence of local government and its representative organisations in global governance; it supports international cooperation between local governments and their associations; and it has become a basic, world-wide information source about local governments.
UCLG is the most comprehensive local and regional governance network which represents 240.000 cities from different regions all over the world. When the population of member cities are considered, it can be said that UCLG represents 5 billion urbanites. At the same time, UCLG has active members in 140 different countries from the total 192 members of UN.
MAYORS FROM 7 CONTINENTS WILL MEET IN KONYA FOR THE UCLG WORLD COUNCIL
As Konya, we will assume the term presidency of the Union of World Municipalities (UCLG) in 2023-2024. The relevant meeting will take place in Konya on 26-27-28 October, one day before we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of our Republic. More than 350 mayors and 1,000 participants from 7 continents will 26,27,28 October, one day before the celebration of 100th anniversary of our republic.
