Botswana
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Call for regional Alumni Coordinator – Southern Africa
Application deadline: 19 June Regional Alumni Coordinator for ICLD The Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) is looking for a Regional Alumni Coordinator for Southern Africa (Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa) to strengthen engagement among alumni in the regions. This is a consultancy role on part-time basis. The role is ideal for a highly…
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Bollnäs and Lobatse
Project: Sustainable Place & Destination Development – Including the Local Community & Youth Bollnäs Municipality in Sweden and its partner Lobatse, Botswana are planning a mutual learning process on how the local community—especially youth, civil society, and businesses—can be involved in the development of regenerative tourism. The aim is to create long-term sustainable models based on…
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Youth Issues in Focus: Francistown and Lund
In mid-May, Francistown City Council visited Lund Municipality as part of their municipal partnership. The visit’s program centered around the partnership’s key themes – human rights, democracy, and youth issues. The purpose of Francistown’s visit to Lund was to exchange experiences and gain inspiration. Guset writers: Simon Berg and Emma Lewin The partnership between Francistown…
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Palapye district
Palapye District Council is faced with a problem of absorption of youth living with disabilities not given an opportunity to penetrate the job market after completion of study from the Special Education Unit even if they possess skills, due to stigma and discrimination associated with their disabilities. Therefor they want to lobby for all policies…
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Västerås City and Gaborone City Council
Continuing the partnership between Gaborone and Västerås this is a knowledge and experience exchange project within waste management and sustainable consumption. The overall objective is to achieve improved community resilience and a more sustainable environment in Gaborone and in Västerås. This will be achieved by targeting three organisational areas: The project will provide the partners…
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Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework
This research project, aiming to develop an analytical tool to address the Sustainable Development Goals from a child rights perspective, is divided into multiple steps. Phase two, conducted in 2023-2024 is described first while phase 1, which served to build the conceptual groundwork for the analytical framework, is described after. Phase 2 – Child-Focused Cities…
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Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in Botswana – The City of Gaborone’s role
Botswana stands out in the African context for its unique approach to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) issues. In addition to societal stigma, their sexual behaviour was criminalized by the penal code. Gaborone City Council did not have jurisdiction over the legalization of same-sex sexual activity or identity, but it did have an important voice…
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Valdemarsvik, Palapye and Central district – Botswana
Ensuring youth participation The two municipalities cooperating with the district level in Botswana, though the involvement of Central district in the partnership, are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rightsbased approach and aim to work more systematically with human rights at a local level. At this stage both partners have established a mutual challenge…
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Programme structure
Inclusive Local Governance The training consists of four compulsory workshops, of which all four are full time scheduled trainings. Periods between workshops are homebased. The total duration of the programme is 18 months. When:The inception workshop will be held during week 10, March, 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa.The Sweden Phase workshop will take place during…
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Admission requirements
Invited countries Botswana, South Africa, Zambia Target group 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 local government official and one representative of a civil society organization. Only candidates nominated by the appropriate organization (municipality, city, region)…