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Malmö and Lusaka develop digital toolkit for youth participation in environmental issues
Lusaka in Zambia and Malmö in Sweden have through their partnership found new ways to improve the ability of young people to gain influence in local environmental issues. Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, they developed a digital toolkit that also makes it easier for other municipalities to involve youth…
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Malmö and Lusaka, Zambia
Project: Youth for Change Lusaka and Malmö are two cities with a young population. Together we have identified a need to develop better strategies for youth participation to make use of the potential and perspectives that young people possess. Inclusive processes will provide us with better policies, better decisions and increase local democracy. This is…
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Awareness III Urban gardening
In Swakopmund there is limited access to locally produced, affordable and nutritious food. This is due to lack of knowledge and possibilities combined with harsh climatic conditions. This affects food security and health status of the citizens. This project is aiming at having more people in Swakopmund and Malmö to grow and eat their own…
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TangMa Training Programme SUD
Tangshan and Malmö share an economic background of reliance on old-style heavy industry, but both are moving towards the future in pursuit of a more sustainable urban fabric. In Malmö, pioneering sustainability concepts have been tried out in practice, in the transformation of part of the old industrial Western Harbour into housing, business and recreational…
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TangMa Training Programme OWRE
Cities are now home to more than half of the global human population, and the urban share will continue to increase. Two areas of great concern in this context are waste management and clean energy provision. Tangshan, a city with ambitious plans for its prestigious venture of constructing the Caofeidian International Eco-city, addresses these issues…
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LuMa Sustainable Energy
Malmö and Lusaka both have an interest in increasing the capacity of municipalities to tackle the effects of an unsustainable energy use: alternatives to charcoal in Lusaka and energy efficiency in Malmo. These are complex issues, related to all three dimensions of sustainable development, which will require a high degree of citizen participation in order…
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TangMa Learning
TangMa Learning is conceived by the sister cities of Malmö (Sweden) and Tangshan (China) as a new programme with the TangMa Project aimed at facilitating education in sustainable development to target groups outside the ingoing programmes of sustainable urban design (SUD) and utilisation of organic waste as a resource for urban renewable energy (OWRE). With…
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Potential Alternative Energy Sources for Swakopmund
This is a three-year project resulting from the cooperation between Malmö municipality and Swakompund in Namibia. The cooperation is in the field of environmental management and this is aimed at improving on the usage of different sources of energy other than coal. The objectives of the project are to provide hot water for the townships…
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Awareness III – Local Sustainable Marin Food
The City of Malmö recently adopted the new Global Goals For Sustainable Development and made a commitment to implement them on a local level. This project also has an aim to promote partnerships between “North and South” which is in line with the goal “Partnerships for the goals” (no. 17). This project specifically focuses on…
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Revamping Waste Management in Swakopmund through Recycling and Re-use
The objectives of the project are to recycle waste in a structured way, reduce the waste at the landfill and to create jobs for unemployed citizens. This will be done in two ways: Start recycling of household waste in the residential areas, where the households can separate the recyclable waste themselves. This will decrease the…