🟡 UCLG World Council

📍 Room: Multifunction Hall B (1st floor) | 🔗 Zoom link | 💬 Interpretation: English - French - Spanish - Chinese - Turkish - Korean - Russian

🎯 Description:

The World Council, which gathers once a year, is composed of 342 political representatives nominated from all world regions. The World Council is the principal policy-making body of the World Organisation. It decides the World Organisation’s policies and ensures that general policies decided by the General Assembly are implemented.

📜 Agenda:

Institutional issues

1. Report of the World Council in The Hague

2. Report of the Presidency for 2025

 3. 2026 Work Plan

4. Report of the Financial Management Committee

4.1. Approval of the accounts and financial discharge for 2024

4.2. Approval of the draft budget for 2026

4.3. Audit report of the 2024 annual accounts

5. Report of the Committee on Statutory Affairs

5.1. Updates on the 8th UCLG World Congress and electoral calendar

5.2. UCLG General Rules of Procedure

 Policy and Advocacy priorities

6. Policy roadmap towards the UCLG World Congress

 7. Towards a territorial economic diplomacy: the agenda of the Forum of Regions

 8. The Peace Agenda

 9. The state of local governance in multilateral dynamics

📌 Key documents:

▶️ World Council's Members-only digital space 🔐. (External link) Members of the World Council may access further information related to the meeting through this link (to do so, please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Those who are not members will not be able to access this members-only area. Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.

▶️ Background documents 🔐 (External link). Only available to Members of the World Council (please make sure to "Sign In" -located in the upper-right-hand corner of this page- prior to clicking the link). Should you have any questions or issues related to UCLGMeets and your account, please do not hesitate to write to info@uclg.org.