In this edition, we share a selection of significant news, a reflective opinion article, and a calendar of upcoming key events.
NEWS
The President of ORU Fogar Calls for Joint Action by Mediterranean Regions.
The President of the Regional Council of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and President of ORU Fogar, Rachid El Abdi, actively participated in the MedCat Days 2025, held in Barcelona from July 3 to 5. This initiative, organized by the Government of Catalonia and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), aims to strengthen Euro-Mediterranean cooperation from a regional level...
ORU Fogar Regions May Host a Diploma Program Against Gender-Based Violence.
As part of its commitment to gender equality and the territorialization of public policies, ORU Fogar’s Gender Working Group will support the new edition of the University Diploma in Training of Community Companions Against Gender-Based Violence, an initiative led by the Women’s Secretariat of the Government of the Córdoba Province (Argentina), with the support of the Network of Universities for Non-Violence...
UN-Habitat Meets with Local and Regional Government Networks.
The newly appointed Executive Director of UN-Habitat, Anacláudia Rossbach, met in Barcelona with representatives of regional and local government networks including FIDEU, Metrópoli, MedCities, UCLG, Local 2030, and ORU Fogar...
Devolution demonstrates the steady success of Kenya’s decentralisation.
The 9th Devolution Conference, which took place from the 12th to the 15th of August 2025 in Homa Bay County, once came again to show that Kenya is advancing towards an effective decentralisation. The establishment of a new Constitution in 2010 left behind a country strongly centralised, created 47 counties and established a new system of governance. Kenya’s decentralisation has become a benchmark in Africa and one of the most notable cases of returning power to the territories in the global arena...
Migration, Human Rights, and the Gender Perspective: A Political Imperative for Policy.
Claudia Martínez, Coordinator of the Gender Equality Working Group of ORU Fogar. "To speak of migration is to speak about lives, about journeys, about individual and collective projects that get in motion in search of dignity and a better future. Migrants are not numbers or flows; they are not goods that can be organised, imported or exported. They are women, men and ethnicities that cross borders carrying stories, knowledge and rights that must be recognised and protected..."
24 September, 10:00 – 11:30 CEST: Unblocking border regions: Tackling cross-border obstacles through cooperation and coordination, ARFE, online.13 to 15 October: European Week of Regions and Cities. 20 to 24 October:Committee on World Food Security (CFS53), FAO, Rome.10 to 21 November: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Belém, Brazil.1st December: ORU Fogar Annual Assembly, Dakar, Senegal. 1st to 3rd December:1st Forum of Regions on Migration Processes, Dakar, Senegal.
