Human Rights
Programme objectives
Inclusive Local Governance The main objective of this training programme is that participants develop new or improved practices and/or policies for inclusive public participation in their local governments. The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one…
Programme objectives
Inclusive Local Governance The main objective of this training programme is that participants develop new or improved practices and/or policies for inclusive public participation in their local governments. The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one…
Mainstreaming Migrant Rights for Gender Equality: Lessons from Lisbon and Barcelona
Mainstreaming, a governance strategy based on coordination between government levels and the involvement of various policy sectors and actors (including institutional, private and civil society), is often adopted by local governments in different policy realms, including in managing migration and integration at the local level. Overall, mainstreaming migrant integration has the potential to enhance migrants´…
Mainstreaming Migrant Rights for Gender Equality: Lessons from Lisbon and Barcelona
Mainstreaming, a governance strategy based on coordination between government levels and the involvement of various policy sectors and actors (including institutional, private and civil society), is often adopted by local governments in different policy realms, including in managing migration and integration at the local level. Overall, mainstreaming migrant integration has the potential to enhance migrants´…
Ovanåker and Overstrand, South Africa
This application is part of the network ”Municipal partnership for human rights”, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in southern Africa that have committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights-based strategy and are committed to work more systematically with human rights at the local level.Ovanåker Municipality…
Kungsör and Rufunsa, Zambia
The partnership will address the issue of inequality in decision-making in public activities and more specifically at the municipal level. The UN Declaration of Human Rights emphasizes that all people should be given the opportunity to influence their country’s government. Our existing structures and systems for inviting engagement leads to older men still holding most…
