Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Norrköping and Bihac – Bosnia Herzegovina

    Norrköping and Bihac – Bosnia Herzegovina

    NORBIH – Partnership with focus on the waste management area. The initiative for the partnership arose in summer 2021 by Bosnian diaspora in Norrköping after discussions with Bosnian cities on connecting to Swedish cities for partnership and exchange of knowledge. The City of Bihac sent a formal request to Norrköping on working together in a…

  • 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.

  • Human Rights Based Approach

    Human Rights Based Approach

    The overall goal of the training is to strengthen the municipalities’ capacity and contribute to the ongoing and new change management processes designed to achieve socioeconomic development. The goal is also to strengthen the institutional capacity and the integration of a rights based thinking at local level and in the municipal service. The following countries…

  • Political presence and involvement in regional development – exchange of experiences between Sarajevo and Östergötland

    Political presence and involvement in regional development – exchange of experiences between Sarajevo and Östergötland

    The project consists of two main events, i.e. two seminars that will be organized as an arena for exchange of experiences, one seminar in Sarajevo and one in Östergötland. The seminar will give the politicians in both countries a chance to exchange experiences about the political role in regional development, regional challenges, political development strategies,…

  • Enterprise Democracy

    Enterprise Democracy

    The overall objective of the project is to create conditions towards the insight that a new democratic governance structure must be implemented to achieve societal change in all spheres and sectors. The preparatory phase, between the municipality of Lidköping and Novi Grad Sarajevo, ended up in a cooperation project called Enterprise Democracy. The project has…

  • Waste management – as means to increase local democracy and citizen’s influence

    Waste management – as means to increase local democracy and citizen’s influence

    The overall objective of the project is to increase the level of local democracy and citizen’s possibilities to influence a sustainable development in Sarajevo Canton by providing a coherent waste management system. The project objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable waste management system in Sarajevo Canton, where the Canton provides necessary…