Regional, rural and urban development
Regional Development Policy Events
Upcoming events
- 28 April-6 May 2021 | RDPC week, (virtual meetings)
- 28 May 2021 | 5th meeting of the OECD Champion Mayors Initiative
- 22 November 2021 | RDPC week (schedule TBD)
- June 2022 | 4th OECD meeting of Mining Regions and Cities, Karratha, WA, Australia (currently postponed due to COVID-19)
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Regional Development Policies and Governance
- Report launch: Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development in Australia, 15 March 2021
Symposium on place-based policies: rationale, implementation and policy evaluation
- , 29 October 2020
- Webinar: Local Governments and COVID-19 crisis, 23 April 2020
- First International Conference on Subnational Finance and Investment, 17-18 June 2019, OECD Headquarters, Paris France
- Fourth RDPC Ministerial meeting - Megatrends: Building better futures for regions, cities and rural areas, 19-20 March 2019, Athens, Greece
- Steering Committee meeting of the World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance and Investment, 17-18 December, Paris,
- Making decentralisation work: towards stronger municipalities, conference held in Santiago, Chile on 10 July 2017
- Territorial approach to migrant integration: The role of local authorities, partner workshop held in Berlin, Germany on 26 June 2017
- Enhancing Public Investment across Levels of Government, held in Lviv, Ukraine, 22 June 2017
- Workshop on Effective Public Investment for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Morocco, held in Rabat, Morocco on 22-23 May 2017
- Strengthening the Subnational Partnership, held in Mykolaiv, Ukraine on 15 March 2017
- Seminar: Innovations and Challenges in the Management of Regional Policy held in Bratislava, Slovak Republic on 22 February 2017
- Decentralisation in Ukraine: Sharing OECD experience, held in Kiev, Ukraine, 26-27 January 2017
- Public Investment Across Levels of Government in Colombia, held in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 May 2016
- Launch of OECD publication Regional Outlook 2014 at Open Days, Brussels, Belgium, 6 October 2014
- Third TDPC Ministerial Meeting, Regions and Cities: Where policies and people meet, Marseille, France, 5-6 December 2013
- Workshop: Firms’ networks, skills and competences: linkages between universities, research centres and the business community, organised by the OECD and the University of Groningen Abruzzo, Italy, 5 July 2012
- Workshop: Effective Public Investment at Sub-National Level in Times of Fiscal Constraints: Meeting the Co-ordination and Capacity Challenges, Paris France, 21 June 2012
- Understanding Growth in Different Types of Regions, Newcastle, United Kingdom 26-27 March 2012
- Forum: Building Resilient Regions after a Natural Disaster: Abruzzo 2030, L’Aquila, Italy, 17 March 2012
- Workshop: Improving Productivity in Lagging Regions, Paris, France, 28 June 2010
- TDPC Ministerial Meeting, Investing for Growth: Building Innovative Regions, Paris, France, 31 March 2009
- OECD High Level TDPC Meeting, Innovation and Effectiveness in Territorial Development Policy, Martigny, Switzerland, June 2003
Regional Innovation
- OECD Workshop: Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders, Paris, France, 16-17 September 2013
- International Roundtable: Innovative and Competitive Regions, co-organised by the Piedmont Region and the OECD, Novara, Italy, 25 June 2012
- Symposium: Innovation and Green Growth: The Regional Dimension, Paris, France, 2 December 2009
- Territorial Development Policy Committee meeting at Ministerial Level, Investing for Growth: Building Innovative Regions, 31 March 2009
Urban Development
- 2nd OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs, 9 December 2019, World Conference Centre, Bonn, Germany
- 2nd OECD Roundtable on Smart Cities and Inclusive Growth, 3 December 2020
- 7th OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, 19 March 2019, Athens, Greece
- 4th meeting of the OECD Champion Mayors Initiative, 19 March 2019, Athens, Greece
- Second International Conference on National Urban Policy, 5-16 May 2017, Paris, France
- International Roundtable for Citites: Exchanging citites' experiences on resilience, Lisbon, Portugal, 21 June 2016
- Creating a Sustainable and Resilient Cebu, 9-10 December 2015, Cebu, Philippines
- Green Growth and Sustainable Urban Development, COP 21 Side Event in the OECD Workspace, Le Bourget, 3 December, 2015
- Resilient Cities Workshop, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France, 5-6 November 2015
- 6th OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Mexico City, Mexico, 15-16 October 2015
- 4th OECD Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia, Hai Phong, Vietnam, 25-26 June 2015
- Launch of Compact City Policies: Korea, OECD Paris, France, 28 November 2014
- Resilient Cities Project Kick-off, OECD Paris, France, 28 November 2014
- Knowledge Sharing Workshop: Spatial development strategies in Iskandar Malaysia: how to plan, manage and maintain local assets under rapid urbanisation?, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 5-6 November 2014
- International Roundtable for Cities: Sustainable Urban Development Policies in Ageing Societies, Toyama, Japan, 17 October 2014
- Japan-OECD Forum on Urban Development and Green Growth, Tokyo, Japan 14-16 October 2014
- Bangkok Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia, 6-7 August 2014
- Paris Policy Forum: Urban green growth in Dynamic Asia, OECD Paris, France, 10 June 2014
- Fifth OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Better Cities for Better Lives: Bridging national and local policies to deliver growth and well-being, Marseille, France, 4-5 December 2013
- International Conference on the Future of Cities and Mayors Forum, 20 October 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan
- Launch of the OECD report “ Green Growth in Kitakyushu” Japanese version, 18 October 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan
- OECD Conference on Port-Cities, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 9 September 2013
- Symposium: What Cities for the Next 3 Billion?, Paris, France, 4 December 2012
- Workshop: The Future of Port-Cities, Paris, France, 12 September 2012
- Workshop:The Compact City: A Model for Sustainable Urban Development and Green Growth? Learning from Best Practices, Paris, France, 13-14 June 2012
- Fourth OECD Roundtable of Mayors and Ministers, Mobilising Investments for Urban Sustainability, Job Creation and Resilient Growth, Chicago, United States, 8 March 2012
- Third OECD Urban Roundtable, Cities and Green Growth, Paris, France, 25 May 2010
- OECD Participation in COP15 Copenhagen Climate Change Talks, Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-18 December 2009
- Workshop: Green Cities: New Approaches to Confronting Climate Change, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 11-12 June 2009
- Third OECD Urban Roundtable, Competitive Cities and Climate Change, Milan, Italy, 9-10 October 2008
- What Policies for Globalising Cities? Rethinking the Urban Policy Agenda, Madrid, Spain, 29-30 March 2007
- Sustainable Cities: Linking Competitiveness with Social Cohesion, Montreal, Canada, 13-14 October 2005
- Enhancing City Attractiveness for the Future, Nagoya, Japan, 2-3 June 2005
- City Competitiveness, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 3-4 March 2005
- Competitive Cities in the Global Economy, Sevilla, Spain, 23-24 October 2003
Rural Development
- Delivering Quality Education and Health Care to All, launch event 5 March 2021
- Rural Well-being: Geography of opportunities, launch event, 5 October 2020, virtual meeting
- 12th OECD Rural Development Conference, 24-26 September 2019, Seoul Korea
- 3rd OECD Conference on Mining Regions, 10-13 June 2019, Skellfteå, Sweden
- 2nd meeting of OECD Mining Regions and Cities, 20-24 November 2018, Darwin, Australia
- 11th OECD Rural Development Conference, 9-12 April 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
- Regional Development, Antofagasta, Chile, 5 - 7 October 2017
- Seminar: Delivering Productivity and Competitiveness for Rural Areas, Paris, France, 7 November 2016
- Workshop: A territorial approach to food security and nutrition, OECD Headquarters, Paris France, 29 April 2016
- Opportunities for Rural Areas, OECD Headquarters, Paris France, 18 March 2016
- The Territorial Approach to Food Security and Nutrition Policies, FAO-OECD-UNCDF Conference, Milan, Italy 19-20 October 2015
- Tenth Rural Development Policy Conference, National Prosperity through Modern Rural Policy: Competitiveness and well-being in rural regions, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 19-21 May 2015
- Workshop: The Governance of Land use Policies, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-16 May, 2014
- Ninth OECD Rural Development Policy Conference, Rural-Urban partnerships: an integrated approach to economic development, Bologna, Italy, 23-25 October 2013
- 2nd European seminar on sustainable urban rural partnerships, 24-25 April 2013
- Eighth Rural Development Policy Conference, Innovation and Modernising the Rural Economy, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 3-5 October 2012
- Linking Rural Energy to Rural Development: Drivers and Constraints, Paris 14-15 June 2012
- Understanding Growth in Different Types of Regions, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 26-27 March, 2012
- Workshop: The Production of Renewable Energy as a Regional Development Policy for Rural Areas, Quebec, Canada, 15 September 2010
- Seventh Rural Development Policy Conference, Developing Rural Policies to Meet the Needs of a Changing World, Quebec, Canada, 13-15 October 2009
- Workshop: Innovative Service Delivery - Designing services for rural communities: the role of co-design and co-delivery, London, United Kingdom, 11-12 June 2009
- Sixth Rural Policy Conference, Innovative Service Delivery- Meeting the Challenges of Rural Regions, Cologne, Germany, 3-4 April 2008
- Fifth Rural Policy Conference, Innovative Rural Regions: The Role of Human Capital and Technology, Cáceres, Spain, 22-23 March 2007
- Fourth Rural Policy Conference, Investment Priorities for Rural Development, Edinburgh, 19-20 October 2006, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Third Rural Policy Conference, Designing and Implementing Rural Development Policies, Oaxaca, Mexico, 7-8 April 2005
- Second Rural Policy Conference, New Approaches to Rural Policy: Lessons from Around the World, Warrenton, United States, 25-26 March 2004
- Rural Development Conference, The Future of Rural Policy, Siena, Italy, 10-12 July 2002
Statistics and Indicators
- Workshop on Modernising Statistical Systems for Better Data on Regions and Cities, 5 November 2018, Paris, France
- OECD World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13-15 October 2015
- Launch of OECD publication How's Life in Your Region? at Open Days, Brussels, Belgium, 6 October 2014
- Workshop: How's Life in Your Region? Measuring regional and local well-being, Paris France, 23 January 2014
- Workshop: Accessibility to services in regions and cities: measures and policies, Paris, France, 18 June 2013
- Workshop: Measuring well-being to enhance local and regional development policy, Paris, France, 11 June 2012
- Workshop: Measuring regional development: Issues from emerging economies, Paris, France, 14 June 2011
- Worksop: Regional Mobility and Regional Innovation Networks, Paris, France, 7 June 2010
Water governance
- 14th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initaitive, 2-3 November 2020, Virtual meeting
- 13th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, 9-10 January 2020, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
- 12th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, 20-21 June 2019, Berlin Germany
- 11th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Zaragoza, Spain, 19-20 November 2018
- 10th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Vienna, Austria, 20-21 November 2017,
- 9th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris France, 3-4 July 20167,
- 8th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Rabat, Morocco, 12-13 January 2017
- 7th meeting of the OECD Water Governance initiative, The Hague, Netherlands, 23-24 June 2016
- 6th Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France, 2-3 November 2015
- 5th Meeting of the Water Governance Initiative, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 26 May 2015
- 4th meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 24-25 November 2014
- Multi-stakeholder Workshop: Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Water Governance, Paris, France, 19 September 2014
- 3rd Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Madrid, Spain, 28-29 April 2014
- Water Integrity Workshop, Paris, France, 20 March 2014
- 2nd Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 7-8 November 2013
- 1st Meeting of the OECD Water Governance Initiative, Paris, France, 27-28 March 2013
- Improving Water Governance: Towards a Community of Leaders, 26 October 2011
Related Documents
- Regional Development Policy
- Rural Development
- Urban Development
- Regional Statistics and Indicators
- Regional Innovation
- Multi-level Governance, Public Investment and Subnational Finance
- OECD Water Governance Programme