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metropolis world association of the major metropolises
2015—2017
TRIENNIAL REPORT
FROM HYDERABAD
TO MONTRÉAL
metropolis world association of the major metropolises Key Achievements. metropolis.org
EDITORIAL
Felip Roca
Metropolis Secretary General
The past three performed at the Global Task
Force, we are engaging with
at the latestBoard of Directors
meeting held in Bogotá, which
years have different stakeholders in this establish the bases of the
been a period new ecosystem of organizations
while at the same time ensuring
Metropolis Action Plan for the
2018-2020 period. Parallel to
of important that the Association maintains its the work undertaken in support
identity and constituent values of the Sustainable Development
transformations with the aim of establishing Goals and particularly Habitat III,
and, particularly, positive synergies and furthering
our objectives.
we have striven and continue to
strive for gender mainstreaming
major advances. across all levels of the Association.
This shifting environment The Metropolis Observatory and
Three agendas adopted by the coincides with internal changes the City Managers Community
international community plot in the organization. In late 2015, are two projects launched in this
our present and future: the at the end of his term at the period with the aim of driving
2030 Agenda, the Paris Climate helm of the regional council of capacity-building. Also of note is
Agreement, and the New Urban Île-de-France, Jean-Paul Huchon the work we are doing to promote
Agenda, introducing questions handed over the presidency of the Policy Transfer Platform and
inseparable from our current the Association to Denis Coderre, the Urban Innovation Community,
and more urban, increasingly mayor of Montréal. I succeeded which includes the Guangzhou
metropolitan and complex reality. Alain Le Saux as Metropolis Award. It is also the time to
Secretary General at the 2015 close one period of Initiatives
In this context, in which we Annual Meeting and together and begin a new one, with pilot
have adopted agendas with a with my team subsequently projects revolving around the six
view to improve citizen welfare, drove a series of reorganizational crosscutting themes of our vision
understanding that the challenges measures within the Secretariat as an Association.
of urban life are intensifying, General to deliver on the needs
there has been a proliferation of and interests of our members. We are the global network of
city networks mostly in relation metropolitan areas and as such
to the defense and promotion In addition to these changes, will continue to work together
of specific matters such as as an Association I would also with a focus on metropolitan
climate change, smart cities, and highlight other deliverables which governance and for the purpose
sustainability. At Metropolis along largely converge with the new of building metropolises by and
with UCLG and the excellent job strategic guidelines approved for their citizens.
Triennial Report. 2015-2017
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Key Achievements. metropolis.org
1. 2. 3. 4.
NEW LEADERSHIPS NEW STRATEGIC TOWARDS INCLUSION OF
AND NEW WORKING GUIDELINES HABITAT III THE GENDER
DYNAMICS FOR THE FUTURE PERSPECTIVE IN
THE VARIOUS AREAS
OF THE ASSOCIATION
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5. 6. 7. 8.
EXPANDING YOUTH METROPOLIS POLICY TRANSFER WORLDWIDE
PERSPECTIVES OBSERVATORY: PLATFORM: LAUNCH OF
IN OUR GOVERNANCE WITH INTEGRATED URBAN THE CITY MANAGERS
METROPOLISES A METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE - CASES COMMUNITY
PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERTS
Page 13
Page 10 Page 11 Page 12
9. 10. 11. 12.
STRENGTHENING TRAINING AND REPLICABILITY UCLG FRAMEWORK
PARTNERSHIPS CAPACITY BUILDING OF URBAN PROJECTS OF WORK
TO FOSTER URBAN AMONG CITIES
INNOVATION
Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 18
13. 14. 15. 16.
BUILDING NETWORKS NEW METROPOLIS ANNUAL FINANCE AND
WITH PARTNERS WEBSITE MEETINGS MEMBERSHIP
Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 26
Triennial Report. 2015-2017
New
leaderships
and new
working
dynamics
At the Board of Directors meeting held in Buenos
Aires in May 2015, we greeted Felip Roca as the fifth
Secretary-General in the Association’s history. Mr Roca,
then the director of International Cooperation at the
Barcelona City Council, took over from Alain Le Saux.
In December the same year, Jean-Paul Huchon’s term
as president of the Regional Council of Île-de-France
came to an end and he handed over the presidency of
Metropolis to Denis Coderre, mayor of Montréal, who
was appointed by the Co-presidents of the Association
by virtue of the articles of association.
Mr Coderre was
unanimously ratified as
president of Metropolis
at the Board of Directors
meeting in Mexico City on
9 March 2016
With the leadership of a new president and secretary-
general, we began a fresh period that also saw
the restructuring of the Secretariat General team
in Barcelona. The steps in this process included a
new distribution of personnel in accordance with
the regional monitoring of Association members
(favoring alignment and coordination with the
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General Regional Secretariats) and the definition of internal
administrative processes whose maximum
representations are the positions of executive director,
held by Octavi de la Varga since February 2016, and
head of administration and finance, held by Federica
Biondi since February the following year.
6 Key Achievements. metropolis.org
New strategic
guidelines for the
future
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General
A new strategic Fruit of a reflection process improve the performance of
engaging the Association’s metropolises in addressing local
vision focused different key stakeholders, the and global challenges”.
on metropolitan strategic guidelines were reframed
and approved by the board of Our vision is “metropolises for
governance directors at the Bogotá meeting in and by their citizens, where
establishes the October 2016. participatory and effective
metropolitan governance
bases of the It was agreed that the Metropolis fosters economic development,
mission statement is to “connect sustainability, social cohesion,
Metropolis 2018- political leaders, policy makers gender equality, and quality
2020 Action Plan and practitioners worldwide of life”.
in order to advocate for
metropolitan interests and
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 7
Towards
Habitat III
In the framework of the different The Montréal Declaration
The most PrepCity sessions led by Berlin, on metropolitan areas is the
important we worked on key questions result of the endeavors made
concerning urban development by the city to demonstrate
conference on which contributed to the Global the importance of providing
housing and Taskforce on Local and Regional
Governments and to the different
metropolitan areas with
mechanisms to respond to
sustainable urban thematic conferences hosted by global challenges and it is
various cities, such as the Montréal therefore a key document
development in conference on metropolitan areas, for Metropolis as the World
the past 20 years the Mexico City one on funding Association of the major
urban development, and the metropolises.
was held in Quito Barcelona conference on public
from 17 to 20 spaces. The five key messages to
emerge from the PrepCity process
The Second World Assembly of
Local and Regional Governments
October 2016: were to: held the day before Habitat III
was one of the landmark 2016
Habitat III • Appreciate cities as complex actors events in which all cities and
• Acknowledge the importance metropolitan areas jointly called
of a renewed social contract, for the prominence needed at
An inclusive process of designing a summarized in the right to the city this historical time when we are
new urban agenda was conducted • Include positive cultural mapping our future for the next
for the first time. In effect, cities engagement as a transformative two decades and presenting our
were posited as key players process contributions.
for the outreach of sustainable • Focus on the enabling conditions
development, which is why we, of urban sustainability The following day, Secretary-
together with other stakeholders, development General of the United Nations
were present and actively engaged • Spell out mechanisms for Ban Ki-moon held a meeting
in the process, although it was the the follow-up and review of with an important delegation of
UN member states which ultimately implementation policies and mayors of Metropolis and UCLG
adopted the New Urban Agenda. practices members. Photo: ©Joel Sheakoski/Habitat III Secretariat, United Nations
8 Key Achievements. metropolis.org
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General
Inclusion of Firstly, the 11th Metropolis World Congress in
Hyderabad saw the board of directors unanimously
approve a motion to give a voice and a vote to
the gender Metropolis Women, a space which, among others, is
aimed at incorporating gender mainstreaming across
perspective
our Association. This decision, which marked a turning
point in our history and ensures the defense of the
gender perspective in Metropolis’s highest decision-
in the various making body, came into effect at the Buenos Aires
annual meeting the following year.
areas of the Secondly, the Association’s new strategic guidelines
approved in Bogotá in October 2016 and which set
association
the agenda for the coming years, recognized gender
equality as a key element of the Association’s vision.
Also in this period and under the leadership of the
city of Barcelona, we worked on the importance of
gender mainstreaming in local policies via a workshop
held during the 2015 Buenos Aires annual meeting,
The work to defend the event Sharing Practices of Gender Mainstreaming
gender equality across Methods in Subnational and Local Policies held in
Brussels in January 2017, and the drafting of the
our Association had two position paper Big Cities and Women: the Importance
crowning moments in this of Gender Mainstreaming in Local Policies, where cities
and partner organizations were able to share their
three-year period experiences in this area.
We also recently prepared, in collaboration with
partner organizations, Eight Key Messages to Promote
Sustainable Mobility from a Gender Perspective in
Our Cities, which was presented at the 5th UCLG
congress in Bogotá in October 2016. This document/
manifesto concisely highlights the actions that cities
and metropolitan areas must take to incentivize
sustainable mobility with a gender perspective.
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 9
Expanding youth perspectives
in our metropolises
Photo: Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
In 2015, as part of the annual include the youth perspective into
Under the meeting’s “Live the City” program in our Association’s various activities.
leadership of Buenos Aires, there was an open
workshop where attendees were
After receiving this mandate, the
Secretariat General drafted a
Mashhad, we have encouraged to share different document with Mashhad clarifying
examples of young people’s the core objective of Metropolis
been tackling participation in the governments of Youth:
the perspective major cities. The cases discussed
included programs launched
of the younger by local governments to help Generate a knowledge
generations in young people develop careers
in the public administration, the
space about the current
metropolitan reality in
the creation of growing participation of the new terms of participation and
generations in metropolitan integration of the youth
city models, their legislative bodies, and the huge perspective in the governance
participation importance of listening to what
young people have to say through
and sustainable development
of our cities.
in urban initiatives that combine their take
management, and on the future of their cities with
sport, artistic expression, and
The board of directors approved
the document when it met in
their impact on sustainability. Bogotá in October 2016 and also
established the grounds of the
the future of major In Mexico City in March 2016, Metropolis Youth work lines in
metropolises since the board of directors suggested
Metropolis Youth position itself as
collaboration with the Metropolis
Observatory, Metropolis Women,
2014 a crosscutting element in order to and the Policy Transfer Platform.
10 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgMetropolis Observatory:
governance
with a metropolitan
perspective
With the impetus and core of our cities, as the challenges of metropolitan and large city
support of the Barcelona cities face today stretch beyond governance, and the different
Metropolitan Area, the Metropolis territorial and administrative approaches toward metropolitan
Observatory was created on limits. Building a communication management. Special emphasis
the basis of the shared view of space of knowledge to promote was given to the cases of
serving as an instrument for political and technical tools is also the Montréal Metropolitan
analysis and reflection on the clearly required to address change Community, Greater Paris, the San
transformation phenomena that and transformation processes Salvador Metropolitan Area, and
characterize contemporary cities in our territories. In short, the the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
and their metropolitan areas Observatory was established to
today. The present context of the provide answers to the needs and One takeaway from the expertise
implementation of the New Urban interests of our cities. of people from different
Agenda and Agenda 2013 are professional spheres was the
obviously the essential framework Under the slogan “The Challenges two issue papers published to
of the new Observatory. of Large Cities”, an event was date, covering specific questions
held in Barcelona to present of metropolitan governance: the
One of the Observatory’s the Metropolis Observatory first on metropolitan trends in
priorities is to provide reference in late November 2016. The the world and the second on
frameworks on the pressing need discussion focused on the the metropolitan perspective of
to incorporate the metropolitan analysis of metropolitan trends Agenda 2030 and the New Urban
perspective into the governance across the world, the challenges Agenda.
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 11Policy Transfer Platform:
integrated urban governance -
cases and experts
The Policy Transfer platform The platform is a project led by the city of
Berlin which was officially launched at the 11th
is a global exchange Metropolis World Congress in Hyderabad in
and learning portal that October 2014.
facilitates connections Over the past three years the platform has
between different grown to cover more than 200 projects from 137
cities, with over 160 experts currently signed up.
international experts and Promotional actions have been carried out at
leading events of worldwide importance to the
has information on cases in urban community.
various areas of integrated
The platform also sets out cases that have won
urban management of cities awards at the most prestigious international
from across the world competitions on urban management and
governance. At today’s date, over 40% of published
cases have received international recognition.
Visitors to the website can draw on the intuitive,
easy-to-use search engine to find a wealth of cases
classified into over 30 different topics and listed
with their participating experts and the geographic
www.policytransfer.metropolis.org region where they were implemented.
12 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgWorldwide launch
of the City Managers
Community
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General
We harnessed the space afforded by Habitat III to launch
the City Managers Community, which aims to promote
the operational nature of the New Urban Agenda by
exchanging knowledge and practices of senior managers
from local public administrations
The Community was established of the goals was to identify mayor of Caracas, the secretary
with the intention of identifying the challenges large cities face of territorial management and
and proposing development and following Habitat III and the tools housing in Brasilia, and a strategic
metropolization management they need to implement the New consultant from the office of the
models, an inevitable process in Urban Agenda from the point of mayor of La Paz.
the present urban context, from a view of management skills.
sustainability point of view. Following this preliminary
The session, which attracted a presentation session, we
An event was held in Quito large public following, featured continued to strive to assemble
in October 2016 entitled senior representatives from the knowledge and experience
“City Managers and the Barcelona (city and metropolitan of the people responsible for the
Implementation of the New Urban area), San Salvador, Dakar, Taipei, day-to-day administrative and
Agenda” which drew a significant Guangzhou, Quito, and Bamako. operational management of the
number of member cities. One It also included a speech by the world’s largest cities.
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 13Photo: Guangzhou Award
Strengthening Driven by Guangzhou and with our and UCLG’s
institutional backing, the Urban Innovation
Community continued to be the space to identify,
partnerships share, and promote knowledge on urban innovation.
The two-yearly Guangzhou Award is part of this
to foster urban
mutual-learning cooperation strategy on urban
innovation matters, designed to help boost citizen
quality of life.
innovation In this period, the Secretariat General ran
communication campaigns to promote the 2014
and 2016 Guangzhou Award among our 138 cities
and encourage them to submit urban innovation
projects to the competition.
Two of the finalists in the second edition, held in
Urban innovation has November 2014, were Metropolis cities: Dakar,
been a key concern in the with the project “Municipal Finance Program”, and
Hangzhou, with its “Urban Public Bicycle Sharing
Association over the past Program”.
three years, where we have More recently, the 15 finalists for the third
drawn on the work done in Guangzhou Award were announced at the UCLG
5th World Congress in Bogotá. The list included the
previous periods following member cities: Addis Ababa, Brussels-
Capital Region, Jakarta, La Paz, and Ramallah. The
shortlisted projects were announced nearly two
months later at a gala event in Guangzhou. La Paz
was declared the winner, with the project “Zebras:
A Citizen Culture Project”.
In order to maintain this relationship with
Guangzhou to boost the work of exchanging
innovative policies and experiences that improve
citizen welfare, we entered into a memorandum of
understanding with the city in October 2016 which
became effective on 1 January 2017.
14 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgTraining The Metropolis
training and education
and capacity program is one of
building the Association’s
core areas of action,
aimed at shoring up
We organized over 30 courses and workshops the institutional and
throughout the 2015-2017 period, covering
an extensive range of issues in relation to professional capacity of
metropolitan governance, socioeconomic the people who work in
inclusion, innovation, and gender
mainstreaming. Through the courses and local and metropolitan
workshops organized by the head office of
the training program in Seoul and the regional
governments, both
centers in Mashhad, Paris, Cairo, and Mexico technical officers and
City, we have trained around 300 experts from
cities across the world. politicians
The training events were undertaken following
methodologies based on the exchange of
experiences and good practices implemented in
different cities with the goal of providing training
Photo: SHRDC
with a local perspective to an international
public. Through the study of real-life cases and
subnational group discussions on the challenges
and experiences each attending city has had,
attendees were able to carry out an in-depth
analysis of the challenges and potentials of
urban management projects.
The following issues have been looked at over
the past three years:
• Sustainability Mobility
• Sustainable Urban Development
• Climate Chante
• E-Governance
• Water Management
• Air Quality Management
• Municipal Financing and Investment
• Urban Relocation
• Empowering Women in Urban
Management
• Empowering Youth and Social
Development
• Geoinformatics Practices
• Risk Reduction Following Disasters
• Urban Resilience
• Informal Settlements
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 15Replicability of Capacity Development for
Metropolitan Projects
This project led by the State of
urban projects Sao Paulo developed out of the
experience acquired in the previous
among cities
Metropolis Initiative “Comparative
Study on Metropolitan Governance”,
with an emphasis on the different
forms of financing and the search
of good practices in metropolitan
coordination. The study identified
new institutions with different
levels of maturity in public-private
relations which have the funding
of metropolitan actions as an
objective.
Photo: Metropolis Secretariat General
In 2017 we will close the second cycle of the
Metropolis Initiatives, projects and services carried
out by and for Association members in conjunction
with various interest groups (such as private
businesses, civil society organizations, and academic
institutions) and which have the potential to be
replicated in other cities across the world.
We have promoted
11 initiatives* between 2015
and 2017 posited on four
major metropolitan themes:
Governance, Social Inclusion,
Innovation, and Sustainability.
* The content of the Policy Transfer Smart, Sustainable,
Platform is available in page 12 of and Inclusive Slum
this report Development
The Centre for Urban and Regional
Excellence is a development NGO that
works with Agra City Council (India)
to build an inclusive future without
slums for this World Heritage city.
Social processes to improve 30 of the
432 slum districts in Agra have been
started. CURE aims to capitalize on the
use of mobile phones among the poor
to study development in relationships
between people and local authorities
through the use of technology.
16 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgCreative Cities of airports and their nearby
The Kreanta Foundation initiated Caring Cities areas. A report setting out
the Creative Cities project to Within an urban context, the the conclusions to this group
promote the central role of traditional concept of a caring work was the end result of the
culture in sustainable urban city is one that supplies services initiative.
development using a three-fold to its population, establishes
approach: encouraging all local a safe environment, facilitates
policies to include a cultural quality of life through access to Cities and Water
dimension; promoting the green spaces, recreational areas Alliance
coordination of culture, territorial and facilities, and supports its The Alliance consists of a
planning, and the economy; and residents in their efforts to live mutual agreement between
boosting economic activity and and prosper. The purpose of this three Latin American cities –
employment through the creative project promoted and managed Bogotá, Mexico City and Rio
economy. by Johannesburg was to establish de Janeiro— to exchange their
a method to measure and technical, operational, and
monitor different cities and their financial resources to support
Playful City respective progress in becoming the protection of ecosystems
Within the framework of Playful caring cities. that provide water, along with
City, a project led by Mexico those that contribute to water
City, work has been done on regulation within their city limits.
integrating creative processes Social Habitat In this context, a workshop was
into school curricula with the Management organized in Rio in November
aim equipping students with The main objective of this project 2015, a Forum of Latin American
creative skills. The development led by the City of Buenos Aires Cities for Water was held in
of a learning method has was to improve living conditions Bogotá in November 2016, and
enabled participants to in the most vulnerable city the magazine “Water and Cities:
acquire the tools they need neighborhoods through the Actions to Address Climate
to understand the design and comprehensive articulation of the Change” was published.
innovation processes required physical and social architecture
to provide urban solutions in via community engagement, with
conjunction with government. the public playing a fundamental Climate-Metropole +
This initiative promotes a new role in the physical and social This is an initiative of a European
model of thinking within the territorial transformation of the scope promoted by the
framework of the forms of daily neighborhoods. An international Barcelona Metropolitan Area in
civic activities. projection was made and three conjunction with Berlin, Lyon
activities organized: a community Metropole, and Liverpool City
wall painting in the neighborhood Region to exchange experiences
Sports for Youth of Zabaleta, a “Clean the Air, Plant and generate knowledge in
Inclusion a Tree” campaign, and playground relation to adaptation to climate
This initiative, led by Barcelona facilities in public spaces. change by metropolitan areas.
in collaboration with the City of Four seminars were organized
Buenos Aires and Medellin, aims (Berlin, November 2015; Lyon,
to promote sports as a tool for Sustainable Airport February 2016; Liverpool, June
inclusion and social cohesion Areas 2016, and Barcelona, November
through success stories in sports Through workshops on the 2016). The magazine “Climate
practice. The competition “Youth, exchange of knowledge and Metropole +” was published,
Sports, and Social Cohesion” was experiences of experts from setting forth the shared
launched and six projects from over 15 airports from across the experiences and conclusions
the three cities won awards. world’s regions, this initiative led from the seminars.
The initiative also included the by the region of Île-de-France
creation of an opinion network identified 10 major challenges in
on sports and social inclusion, a airport areas today. Participants
web 2.0 project archive platform, in the events held over the three
and the holding of a final event years contributed good practices
in October 2016 to pool project in relation to the planning,
conclusions. development, and management
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 17UCLG
framework of work
Over these three years, as a representative network
of major cities, we have worked closely with United
Cities Local Governments (UCLG) on projects targeted
at urban diplomacy and leveraging the voice and
commitment of cities in the international arena
Photo: UCLG-CGLU
18 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgPhoto: Metropolis Secretariat General
Through our active engagement Governments and the Informal explores the challenges they face
in the Global Taskforce of Local Audiences with the United in our current urban age and
and Regional Governments Nations member states held in the role they can play within the
we have implemented joint New York in 2015. For the first new global consensus in order to
promotional activities in relation time in history, and thanks to the contribute to the implementation
to the building and consensus work coordinated by UCLG within of the New Urban Agenda.
processes of international the Global Taskforce, the UN
agendas. The UN Sustainable recognized local governments as As the UCLG metropolitan
Development Summit 2015, specific and key actors in defining section, Metropolis actively
the Paris Climate Conference the large-scale urban challenges engaged in all UCLG statutory
(COP21), and the Habitat III set out in the New Urban Agenda events, including the progress
conference were the major and adopted at Habitat III. in coordinating the strategic
milestones of this three-year plans and action plans of the
period, although we also have In this period we also worked two organizations with three
to mention the Third UN World together with UCLG on producing objectives: to shore each other
Conference on Disaster Risk content focused on metropolitan up reciprocally, benefit from
Reduction which took place in governance. One of the most the strengthening of local and
Sendai in 2015. outstanding results was the regional government networks,
contribution made to the section and guarantee more support
In the framework of preparing on metropolitan areas in the for our members before the
the Habitat III conference, 4th Global Report on Local challenges they face. One
different member cities and Democracy and Decentralization example was the inclusion of
Metropolis secretary-general (GOLD IV), presented publicly at some of our projects in the UCLG
Felip Roca took part in the first the UCLG 5th World Conference Strategic Partnership with the
session of the Second World in Bogotá in late 2016. The European Union.
Assembly of Local and Regional chapter on metropolitan areas
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 19In this three-year
period marked by
Building
discussions and networks with
the consensus to
establish a new global partners
agenda focused on
a more urban and On the road to Habitat III, we worked with various
sustainable world, UN-Habitat initiatives such as the World Urban
Campaign and the Uraía Platform. In the former
we collaborated with case, we acted as a principal partner together with
different organizations around 40 other entities on the preparation of the
publication “The City We Need”. We also engaged in
in the understanding the training workshop on negotiating public-private
that cooperation is an partnerships for smart city management organized
by the Uraía Platform, the outcome of a partnership
indispensable strategy between UN-Habitat and FMDV.
for operating in the Also in this period we worked with ICLEI, an
current environment organization which also promotes the Guangzhou
Award among its members. Montréal represented
us at the ICLEI world congress entitled “Sustainable
Solutions for an Urban Future” held in Seoul in
April 2015.
As an association member, we took part in the Cities
Alliance 2016 general assembly meeting to establish
future work areas and are continuing conversations
to collaborate.
GIZ attended the first Climate Metropole + initiative
led by the Barcelona Metropolitan Area. This
organization, with which we form part of a consortium
to develop a program on sustainable and innovative
cities and regions in Latin America for the European
Union, also spoke at the Metropolis Observatory
launch held in Barcelona at the end of 2016.
With the goal of furthering our position as an
international benchmark on gender matters in
metropolitan urban policies, we partnered up with
the Huairou Commission and Women in Cities
International to elaborate strategic documents with
a gender perspective and to engage in the Gender
Assembly Day held in Quito as one of the activities in
the run-up to Habitat III.
We have also been in talks with the OECD since mid-
2016 to roll out development indicators and models
for large metropolises.
20 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgNew Metropolis
website
During this period we implemented a new institutional
website with the goal of adapting to new needs and
strategic lines and to improve access to information on
the part of the people who visit our web space
The site redesign boosted the the changing contexts in and the major work lines defined
Association’s presence on the which they are developed, in the Association’s Action Plan.
internet, both through improving and our connections with
the integration of social network other international campaigns, The new-look site also
channels and by updating the we needed a website with a features a schedule of key
content manager to a more structure that allowed visitors to international events related
modern version. It also has a more very easily and intuitively log into to the management of urban
dynamic image, where the activities the multiple contents produced. agglomerations, providing access
of each of our 138 members This makes it possible to relate to an updated calendar of the
benefit from a higher profile. all published information with the most important dates on the
members and partners involved, international agenda.
Given the degree of complexity in addition to the thematic
of the Association’s activities, spheres in which they are located www.metropolis.org
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 21Annual meetings
Three annual meetings were held in this period:
Hyderabad in 2014, Buenos Aires in 2015, and
Mexico City and Bogotá in 2016
HYDERABAD
2014
The 11th Metropolis World Congress took
place in Hyderabad from 6 to 10 October
2014 under the slogan “Cities for All”.
The board of directors and general assembly
meetings were held during the congress,
along with an extraordinary general
assembly meeting to approve the new
articles of association.
100%
60
+ 1,800
registered attendees
sessions
PRINCIPAL AGREEMENTS
250
speakers
• 2015-2017 Action Plan
• 2015, 2016, and 2017 budget
proposals
5th Metropolis
Award:
• Sponsorship strategy
43
93 projects submitted
from 33 cities
• List of Metropolis
representatives at UCLG
represented cities
9
on-the-ground
• Election of the new board
of directors and Regional
Secretariats
visits
22 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgBUENOS
AIRES 2015
The annual meeting, under the
slogan “Live the City”, was held
in the city of Buenos Aires from
19 to 21 May 2015.
100%
26
high-level political
PRINCIPAL AGREEMENTS
31
delegations
representatives
from major
metropolises
• Appointment of Felip Roca
as new Metropolis secretary-
general
• Establishment and composition
151
organizations
of the finance committee within
the executive committee
• Improvement in accounting 63
623
and budgetary processes cities
from 37 countries
• Modifications suggested in the participants
Internal Regulations
Triennial Report. 2015-2017 23MEXICO CITY
2016
The board of directors meeting in Mexico City
was held on 9 March 2016. Twelve of the 26 board
members took part and six more voted by proxy
prior to the day. This meeting was held in the
framework of the thematic meeting "Financing
urban development: the millenium challenges"
in preparation for the Third United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban
Development (Habitat III).
PRINCIPAL AGREEMENTS
100% • Designation of the new Metropolis
president, Denis Coderre, mayor of
Montréal
• Launch of a strategic reflection
• Preparation of an administrative
procedures manual
• Bogotá as the host city of the next
board of directors meeting
24 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgBOGOTÁ
2016
The extraordinary board of directors
meeting in Bogotá was held on
14 October 2016. Fourteen of the 26
board members took part and two more
voted by proxy prior to the day. This
meeting was held in the framework of
the World Summit of Local and Regional
Leaders organized by UCLG.
PRINCIPAL AGREEMENTS
• New strategic orientations
100%
• Close of 2015 accounts and revised 2016
and 2017 budgets
• Mandate to prepare a draft action plan
• Opening of a call for candidates to choose
a new secretary-general
• Mandate to draft pilot project terms and
conditions and launch a call for them
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HYDERABAD 2014 BUENOS AIRES 2015
Principal decisions approved by the board Principal decisions approved by the board
of directors: of directors:
• 2013 budget implementation • Establishment and composition of
the finance committee within the
• 2014 to 30 August budget
executive committee
implementation and projection
through 31 December, which finally • Mandate for the treasurer to improve
came in at €1,105,000 budgetary and accounting proposals
• 2015 draft budget in the amount of • Modifications suggested in the Internal
€1,190,000 Regulations approved at Hyderabad
Principal decisions approved by the general • Code of ethics and fund-raising dossier
assembly: • 2014 budget through to 31 December
implementation report
• 2012-2013-2014 financial reports and
budget implementations • Modification of the 2015 budget to
31 March which came in at €1,212,000
• 2015-2016-2017 budget proposals and projection through 31 December
• Sponsorship strategy • 2016 draft budget in the total amount
of €1,202,000
We welcomed nine BHOPAL, FAISALABAD, CHANGCHUN,
CPAFFC, SAN SALVADOR, RAMALLAH,
new members during EAST KALIMANTAN, CHANGSHA, AND
this period SOUTH TANGERANG.
26 Key Achievements. metropolis.orgMEXICO CITY 2016 BOGOTÁ 2016
March October
Principal decisions approved by the board
of directors: Principal decisions approved by the board
of directors:
• Close the 2015 accounts from the
extraordinary board of directors • Close of 2015 accounts with a slight
meeting in Bogotá
• Revised 2016 budget, for 921,945€
• The sine qua non condition for the
• Budget forecast for the year 2017, for
Association’s survival was determined
994,300€
as the membership fees and the
commitment to better track their • Develop a funding strategy to approve
collection at the general assembly meeting in
June 2017
• Design and implementation of a new
administrative management system
to respond to the new needs of the
organization
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