Calling on the organisations extensive experience of international networks, CLGF was invited to take part in a meeting for the six mayors, recently elected to preside over the newly created Combined Authorities in England and their chief executives. Read More

More than six weeks on, Sri Lanka is still coping with the aftermath of the extensive flooding which led to devastating mud slides. Read More

Work is underway in Trinidad and Tobago to help develop local government capacity to meet the SDGs as one of CLGF's pilot projects in its EU funded pilot projects ion Localising the Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean takes shape. Read More

CLGF and its partners successfully highlighted the role of local government in development at the European Development Days held in June. Working collaboratively with other members of the local government family AIMF, PLATFORMA, UCLG, UCLGA the partners created a joint stand at the event to provide information on policy and project work. Read More

There needs to be a fairer distribution of public revenues between levels of government and local governments capacity to collect its own resources should be strengthened so that local government can be properly resourced to meet its commitments, said CLGF Board member Mayor Darrell Bradley speaking at the experts round table session on Domestic and international public resources as part of the local government discussions at the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development in New York from 22-15 May 2017. Read More

CLGF and the Fiji Ministry for Local Government, Housing and Environment have signed an MOU focusing on the capacity building of towns and cities in Fiji. It lays the foundation for future collaboration and partnership between CLGF and the Fiji Ministry for Local Government, Housing and Environment. Read More