With over 60% of the Commonwealths 2.4 billion citizens under the age of 30, engaging with young people to increase their input and participation in local government is important to CLGF. As an illustration, working in partnership with the Royal Commonwealth Society and the Commonwealth Youth Council, CLGFs recent conference in Malta featured a Young Leaders Forum. Read More

Participants from 48 countries attended the 2017 Commonwealth Local Government Conference held in the Maltese capital, Valletta in November. Find out more about what was discussed and the final outcomes. Read More

At its flagship conference last week in Malta, CLGF launched a new network for Commonwealth Women in local Govenrment. With the aim of supporting more women to get involved in local government as politicians and practitioners, and to increase the influence of women in the decisions made about local priorities, delegates gathered at the beautiful Verdala Palace, the summer residence of the President of Malta. Read More

The Rt Hon Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and UNDP Administrator provides the keynote for CLGC2017 - entitled The Contribution of Local Government to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Commonwealth Local Government Conference, Valletta, Malta 22 November 2017. Read More

CLGF has been working hard for months on the 2017 Commonwealth Local Government Conference in addition to business as usual. Last week, Secretary-General Dr Greg Munro was out in Malta for the final preparations, including a press conference to explain what the conference is all about and why it's important for local government across the Commonwealth. Read More

CLGF joined more than 2900 participants from 85 countries at the end of October for the 4th World Forum of Local Economic Development (LED) in Cape Verde: delegates from central and local government, civil society, the UN and its agencies and other members of the development community. Read More