ACPLGP members

The genesis of the debate on the unification of the African local government and the subsequent evolution of the United Cities & Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA) as an Africa-wide unified voice of local government, a facility for supporting the process of decentralisation, consolidating the African Municipal movement, and strengthening the capacities of local governments to deliver services and contribute to local development, started at the first Pan African local government Summit, the Africities Summit. This was the first-ever platform for dialogue held for all African local governments in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire in 1998. Based on the commitment made at this first Africities Summit in Abidjan, the African mayors and other local elected leaders attending the summit decided, in their closed door session, to set up the United Cities & Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA), as the unification of the three umbrella organisations of local government in Africa - namely the African Union of Local Authorities (AULA), the Union des Villes Africaines (UVA), and the Uniao dos Ciudades y Capitaes Lusofono Africana (UCCLA).