UCLG Brings the Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees at the Core of the 2030 Agenda and the UN Pact for the Future

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), commits to bring the protection and inclusion of refugees and migrants at the heart of all global development agendas. At the SDG Summit, UCLG recognized the Call to Local Action for Migrants and Refugees as one of the UCLG transformative coalitions localizing the 2030 Agenda and serving as a blueprint to rescue the SDGs as called by the UN Secretary-General. Furthermore, under UCLG proposal, the UN included the Call to Local Action as part of one of the 12 High-Impact Initiatives accelerating progress towards the 2030 Agenda.



Building on this, UCLG pledges at the Global Refugee Forum to continue promoting the centrality of the human mobility agenda, fostered through local actions as brought forward in the Call to Local Action, to achieve all the global development agendas as one. Looking towards the Summit of the Future and the UN Pact for the Future, UCLG pledges to continue mainstreaming human mobility through the means of engagement of the World Organization and the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments – on top of it, with the input that LRGs will deliver at the Advisory Group of the United Nations Secretary General on Local and Regional Governments.