From 26 to 28 of November, participants discussed the importance of strengthening urban resilience in the face of extreme climate events, and how to better manage the risks (and opportunities) that a changing climate can bring. The event was organized by Connective Cities, with the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Engagement-Global, the German Association of Cities, the Brazilian Front of Mayors (FNP), and UCLG Learning.

UCLG Learning closed the year 2019 with a ToT session, from 11-14 December in Kathmandu, Nepal, targeting LGAs  with focus on proper engagement in the Voluntary National Review (VNR) process.

The National Association of Municipalities of Mozambique (ANAMM) has promoted, with the support of the UCLG Learning, UCLG-GOLD, the UNDP-Art and GIZ, their first national training of trainers for the localization of the SDG, based on the Modules 1 (awareness raising about the SDG), 2 (local planning of the SDG) and 3 (reporting the SDG), produced with the UN-Habitat, UNDP-Art, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments and the Provincial Government of Barcelona.

UCLG Learning and CIDEU specialists discussed the urban strategic planning and the SDGs, and possibilities of collaboration for the formation of iberoamerican public officers, taking into consideration the existing materials and the production of new and complementary specific new materials.

UCLG Learning will help to facilitate a training about the localizing SDGs, based on its Modules, together with local, national and regional public officers. 

UCLG Learning and GOLD will help to facilitate a training about the process of localizing, monitoring and reporting the SDGs, together with ALGA and UCLG-Africa, in Burkina Fasu. 

UCLG Learning will support FAMSI activities about the SDGs and the Local Economic Development Forum. 

UCLG learning will present its strategy, realizing a workshop about its games and the possibilites of Awareness Raising and learning about the Localizing SDGs, at the Generalitat of Barcelona.

UCLG learning will be present, together with the UN-HABITAT, on the FLACMA Congress (Chile) to present their common initiative on resilience and the localizing the Sendai framework.

The UCLG Retreat Outputs, the Localizing SDGs modules and the experiences of other UCLG regional sections will be presented during the event. On the last day, there will be a training of trainers on Localizing SDGs within the UCLG-MEWA staff.