Åmåls kommun
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Åmål and Bergrivier, South Africa
Culture as a path to development The municipalities of Åmål, Sweden, and Bergrivier, South Africa, have several common challenges. Our mutual focus is the high unemployment rate in our municipalities. Together we will focus our Inception phase and project planning around the target group “unemployed young women and mothers with unfinished high-school education”. There are…
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Åmål kommun – Dunhuang
The work with digital concepts for an increased safety, service and participation for elderly, have been an envisaged area of cooperation for a long time between the Municipality of Åmål and the City of Dunhuang. The cities face similar challenges where the proportion of elderly increases at the same time as the aging population grows.…
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Social Welfare and NGO Partnership
The partnership between Åmål and Manafwa municipalities was established with the objective of establishing links between NGOs and CBOs in Åmål and Manafwa. The aim of the project is to: improve on social welfare services in the two municipalities improve interaction between municipal authorities and civil society and create awareness about social welfare challenges in…
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Solid Waste Management
The local governments of Åmål and Manafwa municipalities have identified environmental management as one of the priority areas for municipal partnership. The key area of the cooperation is capacity building in the field of environmental planning, including elaborating on appropriate methods and tools for administration and management of environmental strategies and actions and this is…
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Promoting Youth Participation
The projects overall objective is to expand and deepen the dialogue between local authorities, civil society and youth. It seeks to expand the possibilities for youth between 15-30 to participate in the development of the local community. We want to make a contribution into improvement of dialogue between young people, youth NGO:s and local authorities…
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Collaboration Municipality – Local NGO’s
One of the reasons for the project is to strengthen the umbrella organisation in Åmål called Samverket. It is a centre that coordinates the local voluntary work in order to unite and help the people who need it. Groups that are a part of Samverket are among others elderly, youth, immigrants who are not yet…
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Solid Waste Recycling
Waste management is a significant environmental issue in both Åmål and Manafwa, the dissemination of knowledge and understanding are major challenges. This area is a priority and the dissemination has been planned to occur in all ages and groups, but has been started with students in primary schools. The aim is to spread knowledge to…