that places care at the centre, and will allow UCLG to become a platform of platforms as we head towards the 2022 World Congress, delivering a renewed experience, and bringing all efforts together to deliver a Pact for the Future that is aligned with the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda, and is the backbone to deliver the universal goals we set for ourselves. Beyond the “power of we”, UCLG will harness the potential of all of its other platforms to bring our presence in the digital space to the next level. Throughout the pandemic, our Live Learning Knowledge Hub allowed us to share local initiatives and knowledge as responses to the pandemic, and was critical to bring local inputs to agendas that are rapidly becoming our focus such as migration, health, peace, or development cooperation. The next stage of this platform builds on these experiences and includes the outcomes of our #CitiesAreListening experiences, which highlight the potential of partnerships to transform the social contract. Our experiences with the civil society and all stakeholders will be critical to feed the Pact for the Future, and the #CitiesAreListening platform will be critical in this aspect, going beyond a repository of practices and feeding our advocacy areas in partnership with other actors.
The final pillar of our platformization stage is UCLGMeets. This platform has allowed us to continue co-creating and taking decisions virtually, as the pandemic has brought us to (first) virtual and hybrid decision-making scenarios. UCLGMeets has powered our statutory gatherings, including our first hybrid World Council, and will become an important component of our first hybrid World Congress. WE LISTEN
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