Following the recently completed VLRs of Izmir and Sultanbeyli, and most recently Karatay, Istanbul's Fatih district has also started its preparations for the 2022 reporting process.

UCLG World Council took place on 16-18 November 2021 in Barcelona, Spain, under the theme "Smart Cities and Territories, Pillars of the Common Agenda" in the context of the Smart City Expo World Congress, of which UCLG is a strategic partner.

The Albanian edition of ‘Training Program on Municipal Enterprises for Local Authorities’ organized by UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector and Development (IICPSD) in cooperation with UCLG-MEWA took place online on November 23.

Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME) and a group of Finnish university students paid a visit to UCLG-MEWA on October 26, 2021, as part of a series of study visits that they were organizing for Finnish university students on Turkey’s foreign policy and international relations.

Dr. Chaden Diyab, Founder of Green Refugees Project and certified coach and consultant for EU climate change and food security, paid a working visit to UCLG-MEWA on November 9, 2021 to explore cooperation possibilities with UCLG-MEWA regarding the Green Refugees Project.

UCLG-MEWA participated in the “Workshop on Baseline Emission Inventory Methodology” that took place on 27-28 October 2021 within the framework of the EU4 Energy Transition Project: Covenant of Mayors in the Western Balkans and Turkey.

Executive Bureau and Council Joint Meeting and GTFM Annual Review Meeting were held in Balıkesir, Turkey.

Training Program on Sustainable Development: Localization and Monitoring was held on October 18-19, 2021.

The delegations of UCLG and UCLG-MEWA paid working visits to Ali Çelik, Governor of Kütahya (Turkey), and Prof. Alim Işık, Mayor of Kütahya.

Fatma Yıldırım, Member of the Azerbaijani Parliament; Sadıq Halilov, Mayor of Barde; and Tofiq Hesenov, Secretary General of the Union of Azerbaijan Municipalities, paid a working visit to UCLG-MEWA.

In the workshop, the problems of disadvantaged groups were discussed from the perspective of local governments.

The 2nd World Forum of Intermediary Cities was held under the theme of “Life Systems for a Resilient Future.”

Ahmad Al Soofi, Mayor of Rafah, and his accompanying delegation paid a working visit to our organization.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Global Task Force on Migration (GTFM) co-organized a virtual event titled “Cities and their contribution to the Global Compact on Refugees” on 22 September 2021.

Three-phase Strategy on the Adoption of the SDGs: Focalize, Vocalize, and Localize

UCLG-MEWA increases the visibility of local governments at the international level...

The 4th UCLG Culture Summit was held under the theme “Culture: Shaping the Future.”

Within the scope of the "Monitoring Equality in Municipalities Project", we held 3 more evaluation meetings and completed the field work phase of the project.

Mehmet Duman was a guest on TRT Radio 1’s “Society, Environment, Human” and EKOIQ Magazine.