ORU Fogar Promotes the Regional Equality Agenda at the UN CSW70.
Within the framework of the 70th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), held from 9 to 30 March in New York, ORU Fogar further consolidated its role as a key international actor in advancing gender equality policies, reaffirming that regions are indispensable in closing inequality gaps and advancing justice...
World Gastronomic Region 2026 launches a webinar series on Food Sovereignty.
The new presidency of the Ecuadorian province of Manabí within the ORU Fogar Working Group on Food Sovereignty has begun its mandate with a first webinar intended to mark the start of an ambitious global technical exchange series on the subject. The series aims to share successful regional solutions and highlight interregional cooperation to address challenges such as food waste and the sustainability of the agri-food system...
The Impact of the COOTAD Reform on Ecuador’s Provincial Governments.
The recent entry into force of the Organic Reform Law to the COOTAD for the Sustainability and Efficiency of Public Spending has sparked a profound technical and political debate regarding the autonomy of Ecuador’s provincial governments. The regulation introduces a strict fiscal rule requiring prefectures to allocate at least 70% of their budgets to investment expenditure, while limiting current expenditure to 30%...
"In Pitesti, Arges, Romania, during an ORU Fogar Bureau meeting, we are going to discuss Rural Development. We firmly believe that this is one of the keys to avoiding many of our future problems. The rural exodus is one of the most transformative demographic and social phenomena of the last two centuries..."
