Gender Equality

  • Programme objectives

    Human Rights Based Approach The main objective of this training programme is to strengthen the ongoing change processes that contribute to social and economic development and to strengthen the institutions in the selected municipalities and regions. This will be achieved through participating municipalities integrating their work with human rights so that equality, participation, transparency and…

  • Programme objectives

    Human Rights Based Approach The main objective of this training programme is to strengthen the ongoing change processes that contribute to social and economic development and to strengthen the institutions in the selected municipalities and regions. This will be achieved through participating municipalities integrating their work with human rights so that equality, participation, transparency and…

  • Handbook for Municipal Partnerships

    This handbook is for anyone interested in, or currently working with theMunicipal Partnership Programme (in Sweden and partnership countries).It provides guidance for planning a new project using the Logical FrameworkApproach (LFA) and is tailored for actors in municipal partnerships. It alsoprovides support for a few of the challenges that a partnership may encounter.

  • Piteå and Chinsali, Zambia

    Piteå and Chinsali, Zambia

    Project: Empowerment of disadvantaged groups through local democracy In Chinsali there is low participation of women in local democracy and lack of trust for the municipality among the public. There is a lack of tools, knowledge/awareness and recourses within the municipal organization.  In Piteå social economical and geographic factors leads to lower trust and lower…

  • Piteå and Chinsali, Zambia

    Piteå and Chinsali, Zambia

    Project: Empowerment of disadvantaged groups through local democracy In Chinsali there is low participation of women in local democracy and lack of trust for the municipality among the public. There is a lack of tools, knowledge/awareness and recourses within the municipal organization.  In Piteå social economical and geographic factors leads to lower trust and lower…

  • Exploring coordination in a multi-agency partnership approach to prevention of gender-based violence in Zambia

    This study identifies factors that fosters and hinders coordination among key agencies operating in one-stop centre in Zambia such as the police, health and social welfare that provide coordinated medical, social and legal services to the victims of gender-based violence. This is a primary qualitative study in which data was collected using interviews from participants…

  • Exploring coordination in a multi-agency partnership approach to prevention of gender-based violence in Zambia

    This study identifies factors that fosters and hinders coordination among key agencies operating in one-stop centre in Zambia such as the police, health and social welfare that provide coordinated medical, social and legal services to the victims of gender-based violence. This is a primary qualitative study in which data was collected using interviews from participants…

  • Refugee women’s economic empowerment through self-reliance?

    This qualitative study focused on refugee women’s economic empowerment in Uganda, a country known for its progressive refugee policies built upon the notion of self-reliance. Master Thesis written at the University of Gothenburg.

  • Refugee women’s economic empowerment through self-reliance?

    This qualitative study focused on refugee women’s economic empowerment in Uganda, a country known for its progressive refugee policies built upon the notion of self-reliance. Master Thesis written at the University of Gothenburg.

  • Toolbox for Local Governments to implement SDG#5 on Gender Equality

    Toolbox for Local Governments to implement SDG#5 on Gender Equality

    This policy brief summarizes the findings from our investigation into SDG#5, and the efforts to turn this global goal into local policies and practice in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). It offers a toolbox for Local Governments to implement SDG#5 on Gender Equality in seven diffrent languages versions.