We, Members of the UNACLA, praise the current proposals coming from the Habitat III Zero draft outcome document released in May, which includes many of our constituency’s recommendations, drawn up through the Global Taskforce of local and regional governments, including those relating to financing, legal frameworks, governance, “reinforced multi-level governance” approach, city-to-city and decentralised cooperation.

We celebrate the text’s reference to the "fundamental role" of local and regional governments in "ensuring the (...) wellbeing of our communities." and the need for a “renewed local-national partnership” based on effective decentralization, and respect for the “principles of subsidiarity and the recognition of local self-governance”.