Global Taskforce

✨#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

✨#Listen2Cities at #HLPF2025 @marcosathias @UN ASG, Director @UNDP Bureau for Policy & Program Support 💬When multilateralism is under strain, #LRGs are keeping the promise of the #2030Agenda alive, & showing everyone how it’s done. We see this through VLR s and VSRhse. #LRGF

📍#Listen2Cities at the #LRGF Rosemarie G. Edillon, Under-Secretary, Department of Economy, Planning and Development (DEPDEV), Philippines 💬Central to building trust is building partnerships. Engaging the youth is critical tot these strategies. The future is in their hands.

📍VNR Lab on LRGs engagement 🗣️Matteo Fabris, Research Officer @GoldUCLG 💬 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

#Listen2Cities #HLPF2025 📍Transformation from the ground up: Acting at local level Moderating the session, @UCLG_Saiz SG @uclg_org, stressed how VLRs & VSRs strengthen local data, support evidence-based decisions & drive inclusive planning, bringing SDGs closer to communities.

✨#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

Yesterday, Local and regional governments took centre stage at #HLPF2025. We discussed how UN-Habitat works with LRGs at all levels, local to global, to strengthen their role across the UN system, #COP, #HLPF, and build coalitions for @Local2030 and localize the #SDGs.

✨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

📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda @AnacludiaRossb1, ED @UNHABITAT reminds of the #SevilleCommitment, and commends the commitment of #LocalGov to expanding solutions #Listen2Cities at #HLPF2025

✨Networks of the @GlobalTaskforce take part in the closing of the #LRGF at the #HLPF2025 @AIMFrancophones @Regions4SD They call for action by #LocalGov and civil society, youth, unions and other actors of society, and a multilateral approach to achieve #2030Agenda

#LRGF on the #2030Agenda Bheke Stofile, @uclg_org Copresident and President of @SALGA_Gov We need political recognition, resources to act. Only with this can we fulfill the promise of the global agendas. We need to let #LocalGov in the room. #Listen2Cities

It was a pleasure to join the #Listen2Cities platform during the High-Level Political Forum at the @UN 🌍. I had the opportunity to speak with mayors and governors about the vital role of local governments in meaningfully engaging young people to drive lasting transformation…

📍#Listen2Cities at #LRGF @RealEthanYoung, Subregional Secretary for Noram @PSIglobalunion "#LRGs and unions must co-create models that leave no-one behind. The declaration on future generations needs to embed localization as the rule, not the exception" #HLPF2025 #2030Agenda

📍#LRGForum #HLPF2025 💬Brian Wallace, PR of Jamaica to the @UN @UNJamaica "Progress and sustainability require accountability. #LocalGov can play a ctitical role to create inclusive spaces for dialogue, with the participation of youth, #CSOG #Listen2Cities #2030Agenda

📍#Listen2Cities #LRGForum @IldoGusmao , Mayor of Francisco Morato & VP @FNPrefeitos "We passed a law that adopts the SDGs as municipal guidelines We created participatory processes with intergenerational focus, listening to our children. #HLPF2025

📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda 🗣️@NaziaRehman6, chair of the @coe CLRAE Committee on Social Inclusion "We need transition the power and resources to invest sustainably, low-carbon infrasturcture. We must adopt a coproduction model of sustainable design." #Listen2Cities

#LRGF on the #2030Agenda Antoine Le Solleuz, Deputy Mayor of Nancy 🤝 With @CitesUniesFR we launched a Solidarity Fund for coordinated emergency response. Peace and strong local services are essential for a sustainable future #Listen2Cities

📍#LRGF @cliffordgalea, President Regjun Tramuntana. 💬"Tramuntana has a regional council for children. We not only listen to children and the youth, but implement their ideas. We believe in this as key to build peace for the future" #2030Agenda #Listen2Cities

✨#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.

📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda 🗣️ @felipepaullier, ASG @UNYouthAffairs 💬"Young people bring a sense of urgency, but also of hope. Young people recognise the magnitude of the challenges we face, and bring optimism based on their agency to drive change" #Listen2Cities #HLPF2025

📍#LRGF on the #2030Agenda @MariaEugeniaGay Deputy for International Relations and the 2030 Agenda, @diba 🗣️Future generations will be the protagonists to face challenges of climate change, inequality, & ensure a world in peace. It is time to hear their voices. #Listen2Cities