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Lucy Slack

@CLGFSG_LSLACK

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum @CLGF_News

Lucy Slack reposted

CLGF was represented at The 4th World Forum on Economic Development in 2017 by our Southern Africa Regional Programme Manager & LED Advisor. With speakers including a Mayor from Jamaica and LED Officer from eSwatini. #CLGF30 #Localgov #LED

CLGF_News's tweet image. CLGF was represented at The 4th World Forum on Economic Development in 2017 by our Southern Africa Regional Programme Manager & LED Advisor. With speakers including a Mayor from Jamaica and LED Officer from eSwatini. #CLGF30 #Localgov #LED

#30YearsServingLocalGovernment On this day ... In October 2017 CLGF is showcased some of the excellent LED initiatives in partnership with our member countries at the 4th World Forum of local Economic Development in Cape Verde. The World Forum was started by UNDP in 2011 #LED

CLGF_News's tweet image. #30YearsServingLocalGovernment On this day ... In October 2017 CLGF is showcased some of the excellent LED initiatives in partnership with our member countries at the 4th World Forum of local Economic Development  in Cape Verde. The World Forum was started by UNDP in 2011 #LED


Thinking of members, colleagues and friends and hoping everyone stays safe in Jamaica today 🇯🇲 @CLGF_News @ALGAJamaica


Lucy Slack reposted

I can authoritatively say that one unique thing about @CLGF_News is its ability to empower its membership to deliver Client services better. @30 and the engine has never stopped running. From National to now Regional level, we can only say ASANTE SANA @EastGovernments #SDGs #LED

#30YearsServingLocalGovernment The East African Local Government Forum (EALGF) continues to go from strength to strength since its launch in Arusha, Tanzania in 2012. Bringing together regional stakeholders in East Africa. CLGF proud to support. @gamwera

CLGF_News's tweet image. #30YearsServingLocalGovernment The East African Local Government Forum (EALGF) continues to go from strength to strength since its launch in Arusha, Tanzania in 2012. Bringing together regional stakeholders in East Africa. CLGF proud to support. @gamwera


Lucy Slack reposted

Are you a young leader working on climate solutions? This webinar will help you strengthen your skills to access climate finance, design effective projects, and contribute to a just and green transition. Date: 28 October 2025 Time: 14:00–16:00 GMT Topics include: -…


Lucy Slack reposted

3 decades ago, our #HumanDevelopment Report introduced an entirely new way of thinking about economic growth. Today, innovation and expertise bring us to the forefront of emerging issues that shape people’s lives around the world. #UNDP60 #UNDPEB



This is wonderful news to be celebrated! @CLGF_News members also send our congratulations, and we are looking forward to working with you Dominique in your new role!!

There moments when celebrations are in order. We @EastGovernments are thrilled & thank HE @PaulKagame for appointing our brother & colleague Secretary General @ralgarwanda now #Honorable Dominique Habimana as Minister for Local Government @RwandaLocalGov @MoLGUganda Hongera Sana!

gamwera's tweet image. There moments when celebrations are in order. We @EastGovernments are thrilled & thank HE @PaulKagame for appointing our brother & colleague Secretary General @ralgarwanda now #Honorable Dominique Habimana as Minister for Local Government @RwandaLocalGov @MoLGUganda Hongera Sana!


Lucy Slack reposted

Local authorities must leverage available resources from central government grants, cooperating partners, and the private sector to drive inclusive development through service delivery. @HHichilema @UNDPZambia @giz_gmbh @UnaidsZ @SALGA_Gov #LGAZAC2025

LGAZ_News's tweet image. Local authorities must leverage available resources from central government grants, cooperating partners, and the private sector to drive inclusive development through service delivery. @HHichilema @UNDPZambia @giz_gmbh @UnaidsZ @SALGA_Gov #LGAZAC2025
LGAZ_News's tweet image. Local authorities must leverage available resources from central government grants, cooperating partners, and the private sector to drive inclusive development through service delivery. @HHichilema @UNDPZambia @giz_gmbh @UnaidsZ @SALGA_Gov #LGAZAC2025

Lucy Slack reposted

[#LRGF2025 @ #HLPF2025] Ground‑up victory “SDGs will be won from the ground, not above.” – @LoweMayor, mayor of Banjul, Gambia Local action = global impact. Period. #Countdown2030

SDGLocalAction's tweet image. [#LRGF2025 @ #HLPF2025] Ground‑up victory  

“SDGs will be won from the ground, not above.” –
@LoweMayor, mayor of Banjul, Gambia  

Local action = global impact. Period.   

#Countdown2030

[#LRGF2025  @  #HLPF2025] Seat at the table “We need to be at the table.” – Mr. Eckart Würzner, Mayor  of @heidelberg_de 80 % of his city already moves sustainable transportation 🚶🚲🚇. Imagine that worldwide! #UrbanShift

SDGLocalAction's tweet image. [#LRGF2025  @  #HLPF2025] Seat at the table
“We need to be at the table.” – Mr. Eckart Würzner, Mayor  of @heidelberg_de

80 % of his city already moves sustainable transportation 🚶🚲🚇.

Imagine that worldwide! #UrbanShift


Absolutely, we need transformative solutions and all actors around the multilateral table to address the complex challenges of inequality and sustainable development. #LRG are critical partners and importantly link policy and delivery with people @CLGF_News @GlobalTaskforce

✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that 💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise" #Listen2Cities

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that

💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise"

#Listen2Cities
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that

💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise"

#Listen2Cities


Lucy Slack reposted

✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that 💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise" #Listen2Cities

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that

💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise"

#Listen2Cities
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨At #HLPF2025, @UN Assistant SG @GuyRyder wraps up the #LRGF reminding that

💬"As @UN approaches its 80th anniversary, meaningful engagement with #LRG is essential and recognised as essential to reinvigorate multilateralism and deliver on the 2030 promise"

#Listen2Cities

Lucy Slack reposted

#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025 📍@Local2030 Special Event @UCLG_Saiz, SG of @uclg_org 💬Local action will only achieve global impact through an inclusive multilateral system, recognising #LRG as full partners The Countdown is open. It is political. It is collective. It has begun

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍@Local2030 Special Event

@UCLG_Saiz, SG of @uclg_org 

💬Local action will only achieve global impact through an inclusive multilateral system, recognising #LRG as full partners

The Countdown is open. It is political. It is collective. It has begun
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍@Local2030 Special Event

@UCLG_Saiz, SG of @uclg_org 

💬Local action will only achieve global impact through an inclusive multilateral system, recognising #LRG as full partners

The Countdown is open. It is political. It is collective. It has begun
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍@Local2030 Special Event

@UCLG_Saiz, SG of @uclg_org 

💬Local action will only achieve global impact through an inclusive multilateral system, recognising #LRG as full partners

The Countdown is open. It is political. It is collective. It has begun
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍@Local2030 Special Event

@UCLG_Saiz, SG of @uclg_org 

💬Local action will only achieve global impact through an inclusive multilateral system, recognising #LRG as full partners

The Countdown is open. It is political. It is collective. It has begun

Lucy Slack reposted

📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda Eckart Würzner, Mayor of @heidelberg_de 🇺🇳 We're at the UN, but we're still not at the table. We're not NGOs. We are not visitors. If we strengthen the ties, if we concentrate in cooperation among cities globally, we can transform global governance.

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda 

Eckart Würzner, Mayor of @heidelberg_de 

🇺🇳 We're at the UN, but we're still not at the table. We're not NGOs. We are not visitors. If we strengthen the ties, if we concentrate in cooperation among cities globally, we can transform global governance.
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda 

Eckart Würzner, Mayor of @heidelberg_de 

🇺🇳 We're at the UN, but we're still not at the table. We're not NGOs. We are not visitors. If we strengthen the ties, if we concentrate in cooperation among cities globally, we can transform global governance.
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda 

Eckart Würzner, Mayor of @heidelberg_de 

🇺🇳 We're at the UN, but we're still not at the table. We're not NGOs. We are not visitors. If we strengthen the ties, if we concentrate in cooperation among cities globally, we can transform global governance.

Lucy Slack reposted

#Listen2Cities at #LRGF on #2030Agenda Abdoulaye Kaba Diakité, President of the Regional Council of Koulikoro @ORUFOGAR 💬#LRGs play a key role to deliver basic services to communities We need collaboration for a development that works for current and future generations.

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities at #LRGF on #2030Agenda

Abdoulaye Kaba Diakité, President of the Regional Council of Koulikoro @ORUFOGAR 

💬#LRGs play a key role to deliver basic services to communities We need collaboration for a development that works for current and future generations.

Great to be part of the planning to look at how we can really start to proactively leverage all parts of the Commonwealth to work together towards an inclusive, just and sustainable future @CLGF_News

"Let the #Commonwealth be defined by purpose & that purpose is only realised through partnership." - @SGCommonwealth's powerful message at her first meeting with Commonwealth Accredited Organisations. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4lxQLos 📷 Flickr: bit.ly/40ngiYP

commonwealthsec's tweet image. "Let the #Commonwealth be defined by purpose & that purpose is only realised through partnership."

- @SGCommonwealth's powerful message at her first meeting with Commonwealth Accredited Organisations.

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4lxQLos
📷 Flickr: bit.ly/40ngiYP


Lucy Slack reposted

🆕 on #TheCityFix ⁣ "Resilience in #cities is often framed around large-scale infrastructure projects...But some of the most impactful solutions emerge not from top-down planning, but from #grassroots efforts."⁣ ⁣ More on the power of local action ➡️ bit.ly/3IDH4G8

WRIRossCities's tweet image. 🆕 on #TheCityFix
⁣
"Resilience in #cities is often framed around large-scale infrastructure projects...But some of the most impactful solutions emerge not from top-down planning, but from #grassroots efforts."⁣
⁣
More on the power of local action ➡️ bit.ly/3IDH4G8

Lucy Slack reposted

CLGF was delighted to be part of today's first dialogue between Commonwealth Accredited Organisations and the Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Hon Shirley Botchwey. An exciting new era for the Commonwealth and our dynamic #localgov @CLGFSG_LSLACK

CLGF_News's tweet image. CLGF was delighted to be part of today's first dialogue between Commonwealth Accredited Organisations and the Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Hon Shirley Botchwey. An exciting new era for the Commonwealth and our dynamic #localgov @CLGFSG_LSLACK

Good luck to all at LGAZ for a very successful conference from all your friends and colleagues at @CLGF_News

6 Days to go #LGAC2025



Critical to hear the voices of cities and local government who are on the frontline of delivery, as 2030 approaches - we should be at the heart of the multilateral process @CLGF_News

#Listen2Cities Ready to host the Local and Regional Governments Forum at #hlpf2025 📅16 July, 10:00 EDT “A networked multilateralism for present and future generations: Local governments at the heart of the countdown to 2030” sdgs.un.org/events/2025LRGF

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. ✨#Listen2Cities

Ready to host the Local and Regional Governments Forum at #hlpf2025 

📅16 July, 10:00 EDT

“A networked multilateralism for present and future generations: Local governments at the heart of the countdown to 2030”

sdgs.un.org/events/2025LRGF


Lucy Slack reposted

🟡@CitiesAlliance Director Greg Munro concluded the #FFD4 side-event✨ 👉The core issue lies not in volume but in purpose. #LRGs provide answers through service delivery & accountability. Assigning more responsibilities while reducing fiscal capacity undermines decentralisation

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 🟡@CitiesAlliance Director Greg Munro concluded the #FFD4 side-event✨

👉The core issue lies not in volume but in purpose. 
#LRGs provide answers through service delivery & accountability. Assigning more responsibilities while reducing fiscal capacity undermines decentralisation
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 🟡@CitiesAlliance Director Greg Munro concluded the #FFD4 side-event✨

👉The core issue lies not in volume but in purpose. 
#LRGs provide answers through service delivery & accountability. Assigning more responsibilities while reducing fiscal capacity undermines decentralisation
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 🟡@CitiesAlliance Director Greg Munro concluded the #FFD4 side-event✨

👉The core issue lies not in volume but in purpose. 
#LRGs provide answers through service delivery & accountability. Assigning more responsibilities while reducing fiscal capacity undermines decentralisation
GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 🟡@CitiesAlliance Director Greg Munro concluded the #FFD4 side-event✨

👉The core issue lies not in volume but in purpose. 
#LRGs provide answers through service delivery & accountability. Assigning more responsibilities while reducing fiscal capacity undermines decentralisation

Lucy Slack reposted

🔴🟢 #Listen2Cities The World Assembly of #LRGs comes to an end at #FFD4 with the Call to a Networked Multilateralism and an Inclusive Reformed Global Financial Governance. 🌐 global-taskforce.org/sites/default/…

GlobalTaskforce's tweet image. 🔴🟢 #Listen2Cities

The World Assembly of #LRGs comes to an end at #FFD4 with the Call to a Networked Multilateralism and an Inclusive Reformed Global Financial Governance.

🌐 global-taskforce.org/sites/default/…

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