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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 – 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 🗣️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 – 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 🗣️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 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



✨#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 👏 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 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 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/…


🚨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


