http://www.clgf.org.uk/ News from CLGF The first set of regional trainings of the ARIAL programme - a pan-ACP initiative, funded by the European Union, - took place in November and December 2011. Local government practitioners from Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific local government associations took part in training programmes to learn more about European development policy

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/227 info@clgf.org.uk The Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) has welcomed the outcomes of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth, Australia, 28-30 October, particularly the strong endorsement and support given by Commonwealth leaders to CLGF’s work and the role of local government in the Commonwealth.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/217 info@clgf.org.uk Members of the CLGF Executive Committee are calling on Commonwealth Heads of Government to maintain their commitment to the Aberdeen Agenda: principles on good practice for local democracy and good governance. The Executive Committee, meeting for the first time in London on 19-10 October, also called on the Heads of Government to recognise CLGF’s work in promoting local democracy, good governance and local economic development.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/216 info@clgf.org.uk Aurangabad, India hosted a two-day national dissemination workshop on local government good practice on community engagement, with good practice and lessons from partnerships between councils in India and the UK and South Africa.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/215 info@clgf.org.uk Representatives and members of CLGF met with Ghana’s Vice-President Hon John Dramani Mahama during a recent CLGF seminar in Ghana. They informed him of the outcomes of the seminar and discussed greater cooperation on local government issues with Ghana and the region. Local government representatives from Ghana, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa and UK who had attended the workshop were part of the delegation.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/207 info@clgf.org.uk CLGF has said that it will support Nigeria to strengthen local government and ensure application of the constitutional provisions for local government.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/208 info@clgf.org.uk Hon Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and member of the CLGF Board, opened the first of a series of Commonwealth workshops dealing with decentralisation and local government good practices. Ghana hosted the workshop in, Accra, 20-21 July through the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/213 info@clgf.org.uk East African Community (EAC) have agreed to set up a Local Government Forum for Eastern Africa to discuss decentralisation within the region and the challenges they face in developing strategies for strengthening local government. This was agreed at the closing of a regional meeting of local government ministers and local government representatives from the EAC and beyond, which took place in Kigali from 4-5 May.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/200 info@clgf.org.uk The Board of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) unanimously re-elected the Mayor of Belize City Council, Zenaida Moya, as Chairperson for 2011-2013 at its meeting in Cardiff Wales on 18 March 2011.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/199 info@clgf.org.uk Commonwealth local authorities have pledged to develop partnerships with business, the private sector and development agencies to help their communities out of the recession. The ‘Cardiff Consensus for Local Economic Development’, agreed this week, also commits local government to become more strategic when developing local infrastructure, tourism and services.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/198 info@clgf.org.uk Port Vila in Vanuatu is hosting the second Pacific Local Government Symposium which will exchange effective practice, experiences, research and thinking in local government in the region. The theme of the Symposium, convened by the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) is Building Local Government Alliances: for vibrant and resilient local economies and communities in the Pacific.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/176 info@clgf.org.uk On 29 June 2010, Cardiff Council Leader Cllr Rodney Berman announced that a major international summit for local government – the Commonwealth Local Government Conference 2011 - is coming to Cardiff in March 2011.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/169 info@clgf.org.uk Nine Commonwealth cities are today meeting in Ahmedabad, India to discuss the challenges they are facing to provide basic services at a time of increasing population, urbanisation and mass migration and to share good practice in some of the solutions to be more effective. This is the first major meeting of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Inclusive Cities Network which is being held in Ahmedabad from 10-12 June.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/166 info@clgf.org.uk SALGA held its annual National Members Assembly in Kimberly in the Northern Cape from the 10 to 12 May, 2010, writes Nyasha Simbanegavi, CLGF. The meeting was attended by SALGA politicians who make up the National Members’ Assembly, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Minister Sicelo Shiceka and his Deputy, Yunus Carrim.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/164 info@clgf.org.uk A new Good Practice Scheme project, between the National Association of Local Authorities Ghana (NALAG) and the Local Councils Association of Sierra Leone (LoCASL), was launched in April to help Sierra Leone develop a national association of local government.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/163 info@clgf.org.uk 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.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/160 info@clgf.org.uk Training for councillors and local government officers in Zimbabwe, support to fill skills gaps, repairing and replacing infrastructure, and support for local government to play a role in conflict management, were highlighted as a key issues at an international roundtable on local government held in Harare on 18-19 February.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/161 info@clgf.org.uk Commonwealth Heads of Government have affirmed the Aberdeen Agenda: Commonwealth principles on good practice for local democracy and good governance (the Aberdeen principles) as one of the Commonwealth’s core values and principles alongside key political principles such as the Harare Declaration.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/158 info@clgf.org.uk 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.

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]]> http://www.clgf.org.uk/rss.cfm/NewsID/156 info@clgf.org.uk CLGF, with funding from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), conducted a programme in four South Asian countries – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. - to look at issues of local democracy and good governance, and develop training modules for the region based on the assimilation of the four countries’ experiences. The programme is guided by CLGF's Aberdeen Agenda: Commonwealth principles on good practice for local democracy and good governance.

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