Newsletter – n°19 – February 2013

News from partners

As part of the Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralisation, UCLG produces a triennial Global Report (GOLD), on key issues of interest to local government. GOLD IIIwill focus on the governance of local basic services. A group of experts have been working, under the coordination of Dr. David Satterthwaite to develop a draft report on the state of Water, Sanitation, Solid Waste, Transport and Energy in the different world regions.

The GOLD report aims to be a core instrument in achieving the objective of UCLG: to become the world reference for information and knowledge on the situation of local and regional governments, local democracy and decentralisation. The preparation of GOLD III is producing important inputs to support the contribution of local and regional governments in the debate on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and on the new UN Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Over the following months, UCLG will hold several regional workshops gathering local elected officials, practitioners, service providers and partners, with the aim to review the content and build political recommendations to better ensure service provision to their citizens.

The upcoming workshops mark the halfway point of the GOLD III report process, where the expert driven work is presented to the UCLG membership for corrections and additions, so as to ensure the work truly reflects the vision of local practitioners.

The workshops are organised by UCLG regional sections in Africa, Asia Pacific, Eurasia, Latin America, Middle East West Asia, and Europe. They can be contacted directly for further information.

The final GOLD III Report will be presented during the IV UCLG Congress in Rabat in 2013 and published in 2014, on the date set by the international community for the assessment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).