CSW66 Local and Regional Governments Day on ‘Feminist municipalism: empowering women local leaders as a pathway for the achievement of the SDGs’

UCLG is mobilising the constituency gathered in the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, around the Local and Regional Governments Day on “Feminist municipalism: empowering women local leaders as a pathway for the achievement of the SDGs”.

These sessions will bring together local and regional governments, as well as partners and civil society representatives, to discuss the relationship between care and the protection of our planet, and highlight the crucial importance of empowering women, girls and feminist leadership as an effective pathway
towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda.

Agenda Overview:

1. Feminist Municipalism and the Global Agendas
   14:00-15:00 CET
2. SDG5 in review: the role of local and regional governments
   15:00-16:00 CET
   (Co-organized with CLGF)
3. Break (16:00-17:00 CET)
4. Empowering women and girls for caring & resilient cities and
   territories
   17:00-18:00 CET
   (held within the context of the NGO CSW Forum)
5. Fostering gender equality and climate action through sustainable
   urban mobility
   18:00-19:00 CET
   (Co-organized with UITP and held within the context of the NGO CSW Forum)

Violet Shivutse, grassroots leader from Shibuye Community Health Workers; Maite Rodriguez Blandon, organizer from La Red Mujer y Hábitat ALC; and Sandy Schilen, Executive Director, Huairou Commission will be speaking at this event.