CLGF News

Local government leaders in southern Africa are asking Southern African Development Community (SADC) ministers of local government to recognise and support local government’s key role in development in the region and its relevance to SADC’s strategic plan and priorities. They also called for international organisations in the region to facilitate the development of a regional programme to support local government reform and policy development.
 

Speaking at the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Government for Post-2015 and Habitat 111 in Istanbul on 19 March, CLGF Chairperson Mayor Lawrence Yule emphasised the need to build local democracy and democratic governance into the post-2015 agenda.

 

Urban councils in Bougainville could soon become Centres for Excellence for gender in local government, thank to a team from CLGF Pacific which is on a two week scoping mission to Bougainville to implement part of a programme to strengthen the rights and opportunities for women and girls in the Pacific.