Region Västerbotten

  • Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay County, Kenya

    Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay County, Kenya

    Project: Assessing Organizational Capacity on Human Resources for Resilient Health Systems in Homa Bay County 2025-0023: Expansion Region Västerbotten and its partner Homa Bay County in Kenya are planning a one-year project to build on achievements from previous collaborations on health workforce development. The project will strengthen organizational capacity in Homa Bay County by addressing challenges related to…

  • Region Västerbotten, Vaupes and Amazonas, Colombia

    Region Västerbotten, Vaupes and Amazonas, Colombia

    Project: Equitable health in sparsely populated areas – women’s and indigenous perspectives Region Västerbotten, Vaupes and Amazonas in Colombia, will together address the fact that indigenous women and youth in rural Colombia, face severe human rights violations, especially regarding health access. Geographic and sociocultural barriers limit their access to quality services, leading to high maternal…

  • Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay County, Kenya

    Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay County, Kenya

    Project: Peer Learning Practioners Project for Youth Health in Homa Bay County The partners have collaborated within the programme since 2017 and is currently involved in a project about youth health. This project application is designed to be an addition to the already ongoing project, representing an effort to broaden collaborations and enable a larger…

  • Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and Kisumu County, Kenya

    Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and Kisumu County, Kenya

    Project: Partnership and Governance for Health and Resilience in relation to Climate Change and Environment in Kenyan Counties alongside Lake Victoria The project will establish a partnership between The County of Västerbotten and Kenyan counties in the Lake Victoria Basin area. The partnership will be governed by Center for Rural Medicine/Region Västerbotten, Umeå Municipality and…

  • Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Project: Governance for youth health in Homa Bay County Homa Bay County and Region Västerbotten via Centre for rural medicine are finalizing their project on leadership and governance for the provision of equitable health care. The main objective of this project was to strengthen the structures and processes for a high-quality functional management, collaboration, and…

  • Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Governance in providing accessible, affordable, equitable and quality health care service to the citizens The main objective is to establish structures and processes for a high-quality functional management, collaboration and coordination function/unit for equitable health care in Homa Bay County. Regarding the Centre for Rural Medicine (CRM) which is a department within The County Council…

  • Towards a democratic and equitable health system. Project 2: Building citizens health-literacy and intrinsic motivation to becoming co-creators in health promotion

    Towards a democratic and equitable health system. Project 2: Building citizens health-literacy and intrinsic motivation to becoming co-creators in health promotion

    In many parts of the world infectious diseases are severely under-reported, sometimes because of lack of diagnostic capacity and statistics, but sometimes as a conscious decision to protect economic and political interests. This approach is not consistent with good democracy and threaten especially those people already struggling to defend themselves because of poverty or lack…

  • Towards a democratic and equitable health system – Project 1: Information systems for transparency and inclusion

    Towards a democratic and equitable health system – Project 1: Information systems for transparency and inclusion

    Infectious diseases are severely under-reported global, sometimes because of lack of capacity to diagnose and report disease cases, but also as a conscious decision to protect economic and political interests. This approach is not consistent with a good democracy and threatens especially those who are already vulnerable, poor or uneducated. Lack of understanding of when,…

  • Capacity building for Sustainable Ecotourism

    Capacity building for Sustainable Ecotourism

    Region Västerbotten and Elgeyo Marakwet and The county of Elgeyo Marakwet in Kenya have worked together in an inceeptionphase and identified a joint area of cooperation relevant for both parties; capacity building for sustainable ecotourism. The main goal of the project is to establish capacity in the County Government of Elgeyo Marakwet to harness tourism…

  • Equitable Health – Building capacity to address healthcare challenges in rural areas

    Equitable Health – Building capacity to address healthcare challenges in rural areas

    Health inequity is a serious global problem and social determinants are strong predictors for health status. So is the place where you live; people in urban areas typically have better health than people in rural communities, where healthcare resources additionally are scarce. This project builds on the joint challenge of the two partners to provide…