United Regions / Forum of Regional Governments and Global Associations of Regions
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The United Regions Organization / Forum of Regional Governments and Global Associations of Regions (ORU Fogar) is an international organization, which aims to bring together regions from all over the world and represents them before other international organizations in order to boost a global policy of balanced development and territorial cohesion.[1]
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United Regions Organization | |
Formation | 2007 |
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Type | International Organization |
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Official language | English, French and Spanish |
President | Abdessamad Sekkal |
Vice President | Laurent Wauquiez |
Secretary General | Carles Llorens Vila |
Website | http://www.regionsunies-fogar.org/en/ |
The Organization's main objective is to seek the regions' recognition as major players in global governance.[2] ORU Fogar defends that states' decentralization power towards other actors accelerates development;[3] consequently fostering democracy by the proximity between these new actors and the citizens. ORU Fogar promotes a model based on a strong regional government, with legally recognized capabilities and competences and also budgets in compliance with those competences. Amongst its members, ORU Fogar has important European and Latin American regions, as well as regional governments from Africa and Asia.
The organization acts according to two approaches:
- An integrated approach generated in the territories to design and implement in the field solutions to the new challenges that these territories are facing.
- The promotion of new governance rules at a global level, including the regional scale, allowing the development of this territorial approach.