Where to find the host city inside the Congress
Tangier has a lot to offer to the 2026 UCLG World Congress participants. Through the Tangier-Morocco Track and a number of partner-led sessions, the host city and its institutions are bringing their own perspectives to the global municipal conversation.
Ports and logistics. Migration and city diplomacy. Climate resilience. Territorial development. Green growth. Food systems. Citizen participation.
Together, these discussions offer a glimpse into the challenges, ambitions and transformations shaping Tangier, Morocco and many territories across Africa and the Mediterranean.
If you want to understand the city beyond the Congress venue, these are some of the sessions worth following.
Tangier-Morocco Track
Port-City Ecosystems: Artificial Intelligence in the Service of Territorial Multilateralism
Organised by TangerMed
Tuesday, 23 June 2026, from 10:00 to 11:30h
Room Tingis
Growing Green by Solving Challenges
Organised by Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG)
Tuesday, 23 June 2026, from 11:30 to 13:00h
Room Tingis
Losses and Damages induced by climate change: A perspective from Morocco and the Global South
Organised by the Ministry of Environment
Tuesday, 23 June 2026, from 15:00 to 16:30h
Room Tingis
Innovation in urban engineering is central to reducing social disparities
Organised by the Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and City Policy
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, from 09:30 to 11:00h
Room Tingis
What challenges and opportunities exist for the elected diaspora?
Organised by the City of Tangier
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, from 11:30 to 13:00h
Room Tingis
The health approach at the heart of urban sustainability and food security – Perspectives from the Global South
Organised by OCP
Wednesday, 24 June 2026, from 16:45 to 18:15h
Room Tingis
An incubator for South-South development
Organised by the African Fund for International Decentralised Cooperation (FACDI)
Thursday, 25 June 2026, from 09:30 to 11:00h
Room Tingis
Human capital and democratic transformation: What is the future for the Global South?
Organised by Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Thursday, 25 June 2026, from 11:30 to 13:00h
Room Tingis
Questions to pack for Tangier
A traveller’s notebook for the municipal movement
Before every Congress come the presentations, the speeches, the resolutions and the photographs. Before every Congress come the flights, the train journeys, the airport lounges, the last-minute emails and the unread briefing notes.
And somewhere between departure and arrival, there is a moment that matters just as much. A moment to think.
As local and regional leaders, public servants, urban practitioners, civil society representatives and partners travel to Tangier, they bring with them different realities, different priorities and different hopes for the future.
The Municipal Times Outlook invites participants to carry these questions with them.
Not because there are easy answers. But because the future of local governance may depend on how we answer them together.
- What is the one issue people mention most often when they stop you on the street?
- What is the biggest thing local governments are expected to do without being given the tools to do it?
- What is the first thing you would fix tomorrow in your territory if money were not the obstacle?
- Which public service would your residents fight hardest to protect?
- Who keeps your community running but is rarely recognised for it?
- Who is still missing from the conversation?
- What challenge in your territory has become harder to explain to residents over the last four years?
- What is one problem everyone agrees exists, but nobody can solve alone?
- What is one idea from another city you wish you had tried sooner?
- What conversation do you hope to have in Tangier that you cannot have anywhere else?
One last question
When you return home, what do you want to bring back?
An idea? A challenge? A new ally?
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