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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 🤝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 🗣️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 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 ✅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 - 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 – 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 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

💫 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

✨#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 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 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

🔍 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

📍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