Cities Consortium facilitates and supports the twinning of Uganda Cities with cities abroad. The organization can act on behalf of a city in initiating a twinning relationship. Depending on similarities and differences, it can identify a suitable partner city or may recommend to a potential partner city the most suitable local partner city. It will also endeavour to ensure a mutually satisfactory relationship between the two cities.

The benefits of city twinning include the following:
Capacity building – Twinning can help strengthen the institutions involved through a transfer of skills and knowledge..

Exposure – Twinning facilitates exposure to contemporary developments, new cultures and different ways of executing projects.

Exchange of best practices – Twinning provides opportunities to identify policies, techniques and interventions that have worked and to spread the word about them.

Implementation – Twinning can facilitate joint implementation of common projects.

Effectiveness – Twinning that involves collaborating on a specific initiative results in stronger and more effective programs.

Relationship building – Twinning can help build stronger relationships among organizations within an individual city. These relationships could become important when an organization has a need and can turn to a partner organization for assistance.

Networking – Twinning can contribute to greater networking through the snowball effect, i.e. both cities involved in the twinning project are exposed to each other’s existing networks.

Solidarity – Twinning facilitates a sense of belonging to a larger community.

Inspiration – Cities involved in twinning are often inspired by the work of their partners.