The Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) and the Gambia Association of Local Government Authorities (GALGA) have agreed a prgramme of work to build own-source revenue capacity across the local councils of the Gambia. Read More

Building resilience throughout the Commonwealth is vital. To protect against climate change, natural disasters, economic and health declines and nowhere is this more important than in the Pacific where the SIDS - or Small Island Developing States face catastrophic impacts to any, or all of these occurrences. Read More

The 56 countries of the Commonwealth are diverse in many ways, such as size and nature, and include many SIDs or Small Island Developing States. Located throughout the Commonwealth, SIDs have unique characteristics and very distinct needs. Read More

The Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities - or FSLGA - is making impressive headway in supporting women and building their capacity as leaders and decision-makers at the local level. Read More

Supporting women in local government to increase their impact within local government is a key priority for the ComWLG Network. To date CLGF has undertaken work on political leadership, election campaign development, and mentoring for work in local government, and in 2024 CLGF has added a new focal area to the work of the ComWLG looking at Gendered Cities. Focusing on the intersection of gender, urbanisation, and development CLGF recently held two dialogues bringing together technical experts, local political leaders and technical practitioners from across the Commonwealth regions. Read More

CLGFs Pacific Regional Director, Karibaiti Taoaba is responsible for CLGFs work in the region and had the opportunity recently to travel to Kiribati for the annual Mayors Forum. Kiribati has a population of 119,000 and is an atoll nation comprising 32 atolls and one coral island, the country has a total land area of 811km2 dispersed over 3,441,810 km2 of ocean. Read More