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@UCLG_org's Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization | Researching and advocating for sub-national governments across the world

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📍#VLRVSRDays – Day 1 🙌Mª Eugènia Gay sets the scene by recalling that since the adoption of the #2030Agenda, the Diputació de Barcelona has made it a strategic priority, firmly believing in the 🔑 role of #LRGs in achieving its goals. 🧍The Council represents 5.7M residents. #HLPF2025

📍#VLRVSRDays – Day 1

🙌<a href="/MariaEugeniaGay/">Mª Eugènia Gay</a> sets the scene by recalling that since the adoption of the #2030Agenda, the <a href="/diba/">Diputació de Barcelona</a> has made it a strategic priority, firmly believing in the 🔑 role of #LRGs in achieving its goals. 

🧍The Council represents 5.7M residents.

#HLPF2025
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📍#VLRVSRDays – Building from the ground up 👏Oliver Peters from Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik - Difu, acknowledges that, although there's still some way to go, some progress has been made. VLRs & VSRs now contribute to national reporting, incl. the latest #VNR, a change that was unthinkable 4 years ago.

📍#VLRVSRDays – Building from the ground up  

👏Oliver Peters from <a href="/difu_d/">Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik - Difu</a>, acknowledges that, although there's still some way to go, some progress has been made. VLRs &amp; VSRs now contribute to national reporting, incl. the latest #VNR, a change that was unthinkable 4 years ago.
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📍#VLRVSRDays 🤝Andi Harun, Mayor of Samarinda, highlighted the importance of working with #LRG networks to strengthen local reporting & build bridges across levels of government, ensuring coordination and shared responsibility in #SDGs implementation. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays

🤝Andi Harun, Mayor of Samarinda, highlighted the importance of working with #LRG networks to strengthen local reporting &amp; build bridges across levels of government, ensuring coordination and shared responsibility in #SDGs implementation.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays 🗣️Mara Cossu from Ministero Ambiente e Sicurezza Energetica: 💬 Italy is working on multi-actor engagement, encouraging regions and #LocalGovs to do the same. But multilevel coordination remains a complex challenge. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays

🗣️Mara Cossu from <a href="/MASE_IT/">Ministero Ambiente e Sicurezza Energetica</a>:

💬 Italy is working on multi-actor engagement, encouraging regions and #LocalGovs to do the same. But multilevel coordination remains a complex challenge.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays – Dialogue on Rethinking Subnational Finance 🗣️Charlotte Lafitte from OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives 💬 The World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance & Investment (SNG-WOFI) helps #LocalGovs identify 🔑 barriers to mobilizing finance, esp. where institutional obstacles are high.

📍#VLRVSRDays – Dialogue on Rethinking Subnational Finance

🗣️Charlotte Lafitte from <a href="/OECD/">OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives</a>

💬 The World Observatory on Subnational Government Finance &amp; Investment (SNG-WOFI) helps #LocalGovs identify 🔑 barriers to mobilizing finance, esp. where institutional obstacles are high.
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📍#VLRVSRDays 🗣️Abu Mahama, VLR Focal Person Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly 💬 We’re advocating for direct subnational access to climate & dev funds as implementation needs 💰. Public-private partnerships are one of our strongest tools to invest in the #SDGs. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays 

🗣️Abu Mahama, VLR Focal Person <a href="/SekTadiMetro/">Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly</a> 

💬 We’re advocating for direct subnational access to climate &amp; dev funds as implementation needs 💰.
Public-private partnerships are one of our strongest tools to invest in the #SDGs.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays Abraham Moobola, Local Government Association of Zambia: 💬 We're raising awareness and engaging local authorities. Supporting Lusaka City Council on its first VLR, we’ve seen that many communities still lack SDG awareness. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays

Abraham Moobola, Local Government Association of Zambia:

💬 We're raising awareness and engaging local authorities. Supporting Lusaka City Council on its first VLR, we’ve seen that many communities still lack SDG awareness.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays ✅UCLG ASG Sara Hoeflich calls for stronger financing frameworks, greater powers, and, most of all, more trust in local & regional governments to build a renewed international system grounded in local realities. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays

✅UCLG ASG Sara Hoeflich calls for stronger financing frameworks, greater powers, and, most of all, more trust in local &amp; regional governments to build a renewed international system grounded in local realities.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays - Session 2 UN DESA opens the second session by highlighting how today’s challenges are deeply interconnected. The #SDGs offer a framework to tackle root causes and drive action to reduce inequalities and injustices. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays - Session 2

<a href="/UNDESA/">UN DESA</a> opens the second session by highlighting how today’s challenges are deeply interconnected. The #SDGs offer a framework to tackle root causes and drive action to reduce inequalities and injustices.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays – Sesión 2 🫂Los VLR/VSR deben ser espacios de inclusión. Escuchar a quienes suelen quedar fuera, jóvenes, comunidades locales, voces invisibilizadas, es esencial para avanzar hacia una #Agenda2030 realmente transformadora. #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

📍#VLRVSRDays – Sesión 2

🫂Los VLR/VSR deben ser espacios de inclusión. Escuchar a quienes suelen quedar fuera, jóvenes, comunidades locales, voces invisibilizadas, es esencial para avanzar hacia una #Agenda2030 realmente transformadora.

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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📍#VLRVSRDays Bedoshruti Sadhukhan from ICLEI South Asia stresses the need to engage diverse stakeholders in ways relevant to their context. Social inclusion is 🔑: what are the priorities of women, people w/ disabilities? How do we ensure they shape the VLR process? #HLPF2025

📍#VLRVSRDays

Bedoshruti Sadhukhan from <a href="/ICLEISouthAsia/">ICLEI South Asia</a> stresses the need to engage diverse stakeholders in ways relevant to their context. 
Social inclusion is 🔑: what are the priorities of women, people w/ disabilities? How do we ensure they shape the VLR process?

#HLPF2025
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💫 Now available! The 9th Report “Towards the Localization of the SDGs” is out! Discover how #LRGs are driving progress on gender equality, decent work, health & care, & marine sustainability 🌍💪🌊 📄4 in-depth papers on #SDG 3, 5, 8 & 14! 🔗t.ly/kOOZH #HLPF2025

💫 Now available! The 9th Report “Towards the Localization of the SDGs” is out!

Discover how #LRGs are driving progress on gender equality, decent work, health &amp; care, &amp; marine sustainability 🌍💪🌊

📄4 in-depth papers on #SDG 3, 5, 8 &amp; 14!

🔗t.ly/kOOZH

#HLPF2025
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✨#Listen2Cities @Berryonline, Mayor Kitchener, Presents the 9th Global Taskforce Report to #HLPF2025 🗣️“The Report makes this clear: The global agendas can only be achieved if understood as one, with interconnected goals, implemented from the ground" 🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

✨#Listen2Cities

@Berryonline, Mayor Kitchener, Presents the 9th <a href="/GlobalTaskforce/">Global Taskforce</a> Report to #HLPF2025

🗣️“The Report makes this clear: The global agendas can only be achieved if understood as one, with interconnected goals, implemented from the ground"

🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…
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#Listen2Cities 👏 Bernadia Tjandradewi, SG @UCLGAspac presents paper on SDG5 💬 “We call for a transformative approach to care that recognizes SDG 5 as a matter of justice, redistribution, and power. Care must be in all policies” Read the 📰on #SDG5 here gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

#Listen2Cities

👏 <a href="/BernadiaIrawati/">Bernadia Tjandradewi</a>, SG @UCLGAspac presents paper on SDG5

💬 “We call for a transformative approach to care that recognizes SDG 5 as a matter of justice, redistribution, and power. Care must be in all policies”

Read the 📰on #SDG5 here
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#Listen2Cities World Health Organization presents Paper 1 of the Global Taskforce report to the HLPF “Caring governance should be promoted as the model of governance to act on the determinants of health, setting the basis for long-term wellbeing”. Read it here 🔗 gold.uclg.org/sites/default/… #SDG3

#Listen2Cities

<a href="/WHO_int/">World Health Organization</a> presents Paper 1 of the <a href="/GlobalTaskforce/">Global Taskforce</a> report to the HLPF

“Caring governance should be promoted as the model of governance to act on the determinants of health, setting the basis for long-term wellbeing”.

Read it here 🔗
gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

#SDG3
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#Listen2Cities Jordan Harris, Dan Muasa presents the outcomes of the paper on SDG14 Global Taskforce 💬We need to recognize the role of #LRGs in protecting our oceans, & acknowledge coastal resources as vital assets and commons Read the paper here: 🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

#Listen2Cities

Jordan Harris, <a href="/regions4/">Dan Muasa</a> presents the outcomes of the paper on SDG14 <a href="/GlobalTaskforce/">Global Taskforce</a>

💬We need to recognize the role of #LRGs in protecting our oceans, &amp; acknowledge coastal resources as vital assets and commons

Read the paper here:
🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…
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✨#Listen2Cities Ethan Young, @PSIGlobalUnion presents paper on SDG 8 of the Global Taskforce Report 🗣️#LocalGov & unions must co-create inclusive local economic models that prioritize decent work & promote participation How are we localizing #SDG8? 🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

✨#Listen2Cities

Ethan Young, @PSIGlobalUnion presents paper on SDG 8 of the <a href="/GlobalTaskforce/">Global Taskforce</a> Report

🗣️#LocalGov &amp; unions must co-create inclusive local economic models that prioritize decent work &amp; promote participation

How are we localizing #SDG8?

🔗gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…
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🚨The Global Taskforce 9th report on #SDGLocalization is out now! Discover the key role of #LRGs in advancing #SDG 3, 5, 8 & 14 A must-read for those working on gender, care & health, work, & marine sustainability 📥gold.uclg.org/sites/default/… #HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities

🚨The <a href="/GlobalTaskforce/">Global Taskforce</a> 9th report on #SDGLocalization is out now! 

Discover the key role of #LRGs in advancing #SDG 3, 5, 8 &amp; 14

A must-read for those working on gender, care &amp; health, work, &amp; marine sustainability

📥gold.uclg.org/sites/default/…

#HLPF2025 #Listen2Cities
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🔍 The report features 4 thematic papers: 🩺 SDG3: Health, wellbeing & care ♀️ SDG5: Gender equality & feminist local action 💼 SDG8: Decent work & inclusive local economies 🌊 SDG14: Marine ecosystems & local sustainability 📘 Find them here: uclg.org/categories-res… #HLPF2025

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📍VNR Lab on LRGs engagement 🗣️Matteo Fabris, Research Officer GOLD 💬 Producing VLRs & VSRs is 🔑 to advance #SustDev in our territories while also being political tools to advocate before national counterparts & the international system for 💰 #Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍VNR Lab on LRGs engagement

🗣️Matteo Fabris, Research Officer <a href="/GoldUCLG/">GOLD</a> 

💬 Producing VLRs &amp; VSRs is 🔑 to advance #SustDev in our territories while also being political tools to advocate before national counterparts &amp; the international system for 💰

#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025