As a member of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post-2015 Agenda (GTF) and Habitat III, CLGF participated in UN Habitats PrepCom II in Nairobi, Kenya on14-16 April to input the local and regional governments perspective into the third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) that will take place in October 2016. Read More

CLGF Secretary-General Carl Wright participated in the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments for Post 2015 Development Agenda (GTF) Read More

CLGF is working together with the Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities and the Ministry of Local Government and Provincial Councils to help set up a local market for women entrepreneurs in four different councils. Read More

CLGF has teamed up with local government practitioners from the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU, UK) on the development of a local government institute in Rwanda, in partnership with the Rwanda Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA). Read More

CLGF Secretary-General Carl Wright addressed an event on Decentralisation and development: experience from Commonwealth countries at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) in India on 20-21 January. Read More

Academics from India, Bangladesh and the UK came together for the first South Asian Research Colloquium at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta on 28-29 January. Read More