IOPD Newsletter : January 2018

The IOPD at World Urban Forum 9

The IOPD will be at the ninth session of the World Urban Forum in the city of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from February 7-13.

The Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum will be the first session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Habitat III. WUF9 will be instrumental to substantively feed into the inputs for the first report of the implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

From the IOPD we are working with our members and partners to include the perspective of citizen participation in the implementation of the new urban agenda.

Discover our networking events, side events and training events:

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UCLG Retreat

The fourth edition of the Annual Retreat & Campus took place in Barcelona, the home of the organization’s World Secretariat, from 22 to 26 January 2018.

The UCLG Retreat is the occasion to harness the power of the local government’s global network and continue the work based on the collaboration and achievements of the last few years, as well as increase visibility and impact at all levels. Through five days of intense meetings and discussions UCLG members have work around the UCLG Strategic Priorities 2016-2019 and the 2018 Work Plan.

The IOPD as an active platform of the UCLG Network has actively participated in this Retreat. Several members of the IOPD have participated in the Retreat, and Laura Roth and Adrià Duarte participated on behalf of the Technical Secretariat.

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A new person has joined the OIDP team

Mrs. Laura Roth is part of the permanent secretariat team of the IOPD, she will be in charge of research projects, cooperation between cities and the dynamisation of the network. She will strengthen the organization to better integrate the work of the IOPD with the UCLG work plan and to help prepare for the 2018 International Conference.

We wish a warm welcome to Laura Roth!

CASE STUDIES

Your Voice, Your Choice. Parks & Streets is a participatory budgeting initiative in which Seattle residents democratically decide how to spend a portion of the City's budget on small-scale park and street improvements

Public Participation in Alberta's Municipalities. The Municipal Government Act (MGA) establishes a framework for local government that provides municipal councils with the powers necessary to provide for the needs of their community, balanced by councils’ accountability to the citizens who elect them.

Find all the case studies on our website

AGENDA

WUF9 – Kuala Lumpur 7 to 13 February

2018 IAP2 USA Skills Symposium February 26 to March 2

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PUBLICATIONS

Participatory Budgeting A meta-level review

Building civic capacity in an area of democratic crisis

Democracy, government & public participation in South Africa

Antwerp participatory budgeting

Participatory budgeting: next generation democracy

Local solutions to local problems: innovation in public participation

Toward an Accountability Revolution? Citizen Participation and the SDGs

Forms of mini-publics: an introduction to deliberative innovations in democratic practice

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