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Good Practice Scheme Dissemination Event: Aurangabad, India |
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Friday, 21 October 2011 12:37 |
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Aurangabad, India hosted a two-day national dissemination workshop on local government good practice from 22-23 September. The theme of the workshop, run by the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) in collaboration with the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation was service delivery and community engagement, with good practice and lessons from partnerships between councils in India and the UK and South Africa.
The workshop was part of the final phase of CLGF’s three year capacity building programme, the Good Practice Scheme (GPS) which is funded by DFID (UK), and seeks to improve local service delivery through the sharing of good practice and practitioner to practitioner learning. The Aurangabad workshop is the third in a series of Good Practice Scheme dissemination workshops which are being held in Ghana, Jamaica, Sierra Leone and South Africa. |
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CLGF calls on Commonwealth Heads of Government to support democratic local government |
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 15:36 |
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Members of the CLGF Executive Committee have called 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 19-20 October, also called on the Heads of Government to recognise CLGF’s work in promoting local democracy, good governance and local economic development (LED) in the Pacific and other regions of the Commonwealth, and to welcome the outcomes of the recent Commonwealth Local Government Conference in Cardiff, Wales, UK, on local government’s role in promoting and facilitating LED.
More details and full CLGF policy statement for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting available here. |
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Localising development is critical |
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Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:58 |
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The LGA has responded to an International Development Select Committee inquiry following up the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Summit that took place in September 2011.
In the response, the LGA recognises the significant needs of local government and their communities in the developing world, as well as the two-way benefits of international engagement. The LGA have offered to support the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in responding to the MDGs and in addressing a new global development framework beyond 2015.
Full details here. |
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World Humanitarian Day, 19 August |
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World Humanitarian Day has been celebrated by over 40 countries worldwide on 19 August since 2009. The day was chosen to commemorate the death of 22 humanitarian workers who, in 2003, were killed when the UN Office in Iraq was bombed.
Among those killed was Sergio Viera de Mello, the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq. His widow, who set up the Sergio Viera de Mello Foundation, fought for 19 August to be recognised as World Humanitarian Day. This was agreed by the UN General Assembly in December 2008, and first celebrated in 2009. Click here to read about Britain's involvement. |
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