OUR OWN AGENDA, BASED ON OUR OWN RESOURCES AND ASPIRATIONS The challenge for a consolidated
network like UCLG is not just to produce multi-annual strategies that gain the approval of its broad membership, but also to effectively mobilize local and regional authorities to take on these strategies as their own. We know that our members are more likely to actively support and advocate for our Global Agenda as their own if they have been directly involved in its development, so we want to construct it through wide debate among local and regional authorities at all levels. The Agenda should be developed through an ongoing Global Dialogue and allow the network to develop knowledge about its own nature, identify trends and position itself on relevant topics. The Global Dialogue should be inclusive and allow for varying degrees of involvement by different actors so 4