Falu kommun
Developing Youth Councils
This toolbox has been compiled to help local government officials and politicians who want to start, improve, and maintain their own youth councils. It provides both inspiration and a step-by-step guide for setting up and managing these councils. It also explores the questions and challenges youth councils often face and shares some of the lessons…
Falun – Kolomyia, Ukraine
Youth, Education, and Entrepreneurship The partnership between Falun and Kolomyia focuses on youth engagement and entrepreneurship, with a strong emphasis on inclusive education. Around 90 students have already participated in educational initiatives as a result of the project, alongside some teacher training. The project is aligned with several Agenda 2030 goals —particularly SDG 4 (Quality…
Falun and Mogale, South Africa
This project is part of the “Municipal Partnership for Human Rights” network, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in Southern Africa that are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights based approach and that are keen to work more systematically with human rights at a local…
Eight partnerships join network for human rights
Eight municipal partnerships will join the ICLD’s project network Municipal Partnerships for Human Rights. Alongside eight partner municipalities from Southern Africa, they will plan and carry out a project that will strengthen human rights and democracy at the local level. On September 1st, the ICLD made a call for declarations of interests for the new…
Youth in Falun and Tsumeb make their voices heard
“A large share of the population is comprised by youth and they are also the ones that will create and carry our future society” These words are Karin Perérs’s, project coordinator for the partnership between Falun in Sweden and Tsumeb Municipality in Namibia. The partnership started ten years ago and has since its inception yielded…
Education for Democracy
The project’s goal is to increase the trainers’ ability to provide and, not least of all, benefit from basic and further training via the internet.
Participation and voice implementation
Through the feasibility study “Participation and voice” we have been able to identify the problem and basis for a collaborative project between the municipalities regarding democracy issues for young people. The feasibility study’s results show many similar challenges, but with different strengths of the partners. A clear deficiency and thereby focus of the project is…
Sustainable Waste Management
A sustainable waste disposal system in the community of Tsumeb. The Project Objective is to increase knowledge and competency concerning a sustainable waste disposal system in the community of Tsumeb. The project can contribute to opening new opportunities for the citizens to use their powers of influence and thereby increase their level of participation. In…
Good Governance and Municipal Management Development
Democracy and democratic methods are words often used without reflected upon. What does it stand for? It´s natural that the biggest party also hold the political power, but how do they use it and how is the power divided between politicians and municipal employees. In a functioning democracy is it very important that both politicians…
