Commonwealth local government meets in Botswana
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Ministers of local government, mayors, local government association and council leaders, and senior councilors and local government officials are in Gaborone this week for a meeting of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) Board. The Board meeting is held once a year and is the main decision-making forum to agree CLGF’s policies, priorities and future work including developing its programme of work in Southern Africa. The Board will also receive recent political developments in local government from around the Commonwealth, and discuss how CLGF can provide support in countries such as Pakistan where democratic local government is under threat. [more] |
Commonwealth backs good local governance at CHOGM
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Secretary-General Carl Wright, CLGF Vice-chairperson Hon Hazel Manning, and Board members Mayor Murchison Brown, and Dr Bishnu Ragoonath at CHOGM. Commonwealth Heads of Government have affirmed the Aberdeen Agenda: Commonwealth principles on good practice for local democracy and good governance as one of the Commonwealth’s core values and principles. more
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Minister Burty David opens CLGF meetings in Mauritius
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Mauritius Minister for Local Government, Rodrigues and Outer Islands James Burty David led the opening session for a two-day programme of CLGF meetings and workshops in Mauritius. Local government mayors and representatives of councils in Mauritius joined with members of the CLGF sub-committee for the opening ceremony at La Pirogue in Flic en Flac. [more]
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In Conversation with the Commonwealth: local government matters
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The future success of the Commonwealth will be seen at local level argues CLGF Secretary-General Carl Wright in his post for the Commonwealth conversation. "Local government is often viewed as the poor relation to its glamorous national associates, but it is through us that thriving, safer communities are developed and the Millennium Development Goals will be delivered. It is best placed to provide basic services such as water, sanitation, and primary health care," he writes. more
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The Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) works to promote and strengthen effective democratic local government throughout the Commonwealth and to facilitate the exchange of good practice in local government structures and services.
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Commonwealth Local Government Conference 2009
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More than 550 local government ministry, association and council representatives from 48 countries attended the Commonwealth Local Government Conference, held in Freeport, Grand Bahama and agreed The Freeport Declaration. [more]
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