Event description:

The close proximity of local and regional authorities (LRAs) to their constituencies – their direct experience in implementing policy, their potential to initiate multi-stakeholder dialogue and participatory decision-making, as well as the range of skills that they have often developed in spatial development planning – make them central actors on the stage of global migration. Despite LRAs’ role at the forefront in addressing migration’s challenges and opportunities, their full potential is constrained by, in many cases: a general lack of resources; low levels of awareness of local migration dynamics and their connection with development impacts; undefined competencies and responsibilities within local administrations; and varying degrees of decentralization, among other factors.

http://www.unitar.org/barcelona-announces-mayoral-forum-mobility-migration-and-development