Various Voluntary Regional Reviews (VRRs) are already underway.
Following the recent ORU Fogar Annual Assembly held in Azuay, where it was reaffirmed that the preparation of Voluntary Regional Reviews (VRRs) is an absolute priority and a key area of focus for the organization in 2027, several regions have already requested technical support from the Secretariat to launch this territorial assessment exercise...
The Association of Senegalese Departments (ADS) relaunches the International Forum of Territories on Migration.
Initially scheduled for December 2025, the event will finally take place on 14 and 15 December 2026 in the Senegalese capital. It will provide a leading international platform to examine how regional governments around the world are addressing and managing contemporary migration challenges...
The Koulikoro Region Working with UN-Habitat in Mali.
Following the high-level meeting held in New York with UN-Habitat Executive Director Anacláudia Rossbach, during which a firm commitment to the territorialization of urban policies and support for regional governments was reaffirmed, the President of the Koulikoro Regional Council, Abdoulaye Kaba Diakité, and his technical team have taken this dialogue to the ground through a working meeting with the UN-Habitat team at the United Nations headquarters in Bamako...
The Right to Stay Strategy: Helping Regions Make ‘Staying’ a Real Choice.
Themis Christophidou, the Director-General of the European Commission’s Regional and Urban Policy department (DG REGIO) "In the 2024 report ‘Much more than a market: empowering the Single Market to deliver a sustainable future and prosperity for all EU citizens’ Enrico Letta warns that widening regional inequalities risk creating a ‘geography of discontent’, while the Draghi report ‘The future of European Competitiveness’ made clear that territorial imbalances are not only a social risk but an economic one, weakening Europe’s overall capacity to grow, innovate and compete globally."
