CALENDAR OF EVENTS (MAY – DECEMBER 2007)

ITEM / ACTIVITY	VENUE	DATE/TIMEFRAME
UCLGA-GTZ Funding Planning Workshop	Tshwane, South Africa	6 – 8 May 2007
Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) Sister Cities Seminar with African Local Governments	Beijing, China	15 – 17 May 2007
FCM’s 70^th Annual Conference & Municipal Expo + Funding Meetings with FCM and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)	Calgary & Ottawa, Canada	28 May – 7 June 2007
UCLG GOLD Meeting of Secretaries General	Nantes, France	30 May – 1^st June 2007
2^nd Africa-Europe Business Forum	Accra, Ghana	21 – 22 June 2007
13^th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly	Wiesbaeden, Germany	20 – 28 June
7^th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Building Trust in Government	UN Headquarters in Vienna, Austria	26 – 29 June 2007
14^th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) of the African Union	Accra, Ghana	25 – 26 June 2007
11^th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union	Accra, Ghana	28 – 29 June 2007
African Union Heads of State Meeting – 9^th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union	Accra, Ghana	25 June - 6 July 2007
CIDA-UCLGA-French Cooperation Funding Workshop	Tshwane, South Africa	9 – 13 July 2007
6^th Ordinary Session of the African Population Commission	Tshwane, South Africa	16 – 17 July 2007
City Development Strategies based on the Millennium Development Goals Africa Launching Workshop	City of Johannesburg, South Africa	18 – 20 July 2007
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) - African Union – UCLGA Urban Development Cooperation Seminar	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	20 – 21 September 2007
UCLGA Southern Africa Regional Meeting	Maseru, Lesotho	9 – 10 August 2007
World Water Week Progress and Prospects on Water: Striving for Sustainability in a Changing World	Stockholm, Sweden	12 – 18 August 2007
UCLGA Executive Committee Meeting	Jeju, South Korea	26 – 27 October 2007
2^nd UCLG World Congress	Jeju, South Korea	28 – 31 October 2007
14^th Joint Parliamentary Assembly	Kigali, Rwanda	14 – 22 November
Peace-building, integration and security within local governments conference in Côte d’Ivoire	Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire	21 – 23 November 2007
Information and Communication Technology for African Local Governments Conference (combined with African & Chinese Mayors’ Meeting & African Council & Secretaries General Meeting)	City of Ekurhuleni, South Africa	12 – 16 November 2007