For the past few decades, Southeast Asia’s face is changing with rapid urbanisation. With around 600 million populations, Southeast Asia is thriving for development and has become a prominent player in the global economy. Southeast Asia is also home to many growing megacities such as Jakarta, Manila, and Bangkok. It is not impossible that other …
UCLG ASPAC conducted an ASEAN City Leaders dialogue on 17th January 2022 for cities and local governments to share and learn from each other. Addressing the importance of multilevel action, UCLG ASPAC invited not only local governments but also some global speakers from UCLG World, GCoM Global, UNESCAP, ICLEI, and World Bank to share their …
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In taking momentum of COP26, UCLG ASPAC as the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) Secretariat for Southeast Asia and Lead Coordinator for the GCoM Global-Regional Coherence, held a Thailand national webinar with the theme “Collaborating Climate Action in Thailand for Implementation of GCoM Asia Phase 2” as part of ASEAN City Leaders Dialogue event that …
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Background UCLG ASPAC is the largest regional section of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), an amalgamation of International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), United Towns Organisation (UTO), and World Association of the Major Metropolises (METROPOLIS). UCLG was established on 1 January 2004 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. Following this unification, UCLG ASPAC was …
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Day by day, population growth and development is increasing rapidly. This can have an impact on the environment, namely climate change. As we know, metropolitan cities are considered as promising for people’s income. This causes the population and development in urban areas to increase from day to day. Then, the increase in the amount causes …
17 December 2021 | Gyeonggi-do Province, one of UCLG ASPAC active members, established the Humanitarian Development Peace (HDP) Nexus Committee in June 2021 within the context of the Organisation. The establishment is a response towards humanitarian conditions impacted by conflict, violence, and disasters that continue to uproot millions of people from their homes every year. …
13-15 December 2021 | DAEJEON Metropolitan City and its UCLG Organising Committee held the “2022 Daejeon UCLG World Congress Resolution Ceremony” in a bid to successfully host the event next year. Attending this event were Mayor Her Tae-jeong of Daejeon, National Assembly Speaker Mr. Park Byeong-seok, UCLG ASPAC Secretary General Dr. Bernadia Irawati Tjandradewi, citizen …
November-December 2021 | UCLG ASPAC in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has been promoting Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and the Making Cities Resilient (MCR) over the past years. It has been strengthening the capacity of cities and local governments in DRR and the implementation of the Sendai Framework for …
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ONE of the key result areas under Local Empowerment, Advocacy and Development (LEAD) for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Localisation in Pakistan programme funded by the EU Pakistan is to conduct empirical researches aimed at informed planning and development in line with the SDGs in Pakistan. The project identified that there are very few SDGs related …
MAYOR Arya Rajendran was born on 12 January 1999. Elected in December 2020 when COVID-19 pandemic has arisen, Mayor Arya has shown good works and become a role model for female and young leaders in managing and leading a municipality. Elected at the age of 21, Mayor Arya of Thiruvananthapuram is the youngest mayor in …
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