In focus #2 Monitoring local democracy: creating an Observatory
One of UCLG’s objectives, agreed at the Founding Congress, is:
Becoming the source of key information on the situation and the evolution of local government all over the world, through the establishment of an observatory on local democracy With this objective in mind, UCLG decided to launch the GOLD project: the Global Observatory on Decentralisation and Local Democracy. In June 2005, UCLG’s Executive Bureau agreed to establish the Observatory through two principal activities: a portal within the UCLG website with access to relevant information and data on local democracy a UCLG Global Report on Decentralisation and Local Democracy which would be published every three years
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