Sara Hoeflich de Duque, Autor bei Urbanet

About Sara Hoeflich de Duque

Sara Hoeflich works for UCLG, United Cities and Local Governments, the voice and network of cities and regions. She is in charge of the UCLG portfolio on decentralized cooperation and city to city learning (director cooperation). She started working at United Cities and Local Government in 2006, after almost 10 years joining German Development Cooperation in Indonesia and Colombia - in the field of urban planning and management - and after being active in several German urban design projects and engaging in development NGO.

The Role of Local Governments in Sustainable Urbanisation

The Role of Local Governments in Sustainable Urbanisation

By Sara Hoeflich de Duque|2021-07-23T13:33:43+02:00August 18th 2016|

A key recommendation of the German Habitat Forum held in May 2016 in Berlin was that “cities need to be empowered as actors”. Urbanization not only implies geographical changes, but also a political change in order to manage growth. This is where local governments are most needed.