Gender Equality

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Politics of Pseudoactions – Local Governance and Gender Policy Implementation in the Western Balkans

    Successful implementation is often pointed out as a missing prerequisite in the attainment of gender equality goals. Only rarely, however, are gender policy implementation processes subjected to systematic study. This paper analyses the local-level implementation of national gender equality policies in three countries of the Western Balkans region (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia), examining the…