Secretary General Spoke on UBrainTV

The development of cities in Asia Pacific has been fascinating. Green cities which try to apply sustainable development concept nourishingly grows in the region. Leadership

More Presentations From Colombo

Following the five presentations uploaded earlier, we gladfully provide more materials from the Colombo meetings. UCLG ASPAC Executive Bureau and Council Meetings in Colombo, Sri Lanka, took place on November 27th-28th, 2013. An International Workshop on “Empowering Local Partnership for Better Sanitation and Water Services” and a Regional Consultation with Local Governments “Towards a Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk-Reduction” were also organized in accordance with the main meeting.

Presentations from Colombo Meetings Online

On November 27th-28th 2013, United Cities and Local Governments Asia-Pacific organized the Executive Bureau & Council Meetings as well as the International Workshop on “Empowering

Our Latest Newsletter Out Now

We proudly announce that the latest Newsletter Volume 19 May-October 2013 of UCLG ASPAC has been published!.

We do highly appreciate all participation and therefore thank all members who already contributed their articles. However, we could not accommodate all participation as already informed in prior. Our team applies selection and editing policy.

LCP’s Survey on State of Decentralization and Local Democracy

Philippines cities indicated the need to improve their human resources, to generate local finance, and to improve their local revenues. The list derived from an early 2013 survey’s result revealing that less than half of respondents expressed ‘good’ or ‘very good’ remarks when asked about issues on human resource, finance, and local revenues. The report said that although inconclusive, the human resource, finance and local revenue may provide clues in determining the performance gaps of local governments in terms of explaining decentralization and local democracy in the Philippines. Philippine cities find the current decentralized set up is favorable in terms of local politics decision making, basic services delivery, local autonomy, and enabling citizen participation.

DELGOSEA Regional Workshop on the News!

On Nov 12th-13th 2013, the “Partnership for Democratic Local Governance in Southeast-Asia” (DELGOSEA) network held its “Regional Workshop on Building Cooperation Between DELGOSEA and ASEAN”

FSLGA’s Visit to UCLG ASPAC Secretariat

Our secretariat team welcomed the delegation of Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities (FSLGA) in Jakarta. On monday morning, 28 delegates arrived at our