10 takeaways for anyone who missed the landmark conference on local governments hosted by @HRCP87 yesterday. Here is my summary of recommendations put forward by the fantastic line-up of speakers.

🧵 1) The process of LG elections should be concluded nationwide and they should begin their terms immediately. More importantly, they should be given adequate resources, fiscal capacity and administrative space to make them functional in practice, rather than on paper.

A brief reflection on Covid, mortality and why you should hang on to your loved ones:

Covid does you the favour of dulling your memory. I carry proof of the virus – battle scars, as it were – in aching joints and muscles. I still feel it in the left side of my chest. I feel it in the form of a certain exhaustion in my body and mind; a particular numbness which has dulled and blunted the senses, a slowness, an unawareness of the passage of time.