10 – Reduced inequalities
Dorotea – Livingstone, Zambia, City of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Project regarding Youth Inclusion The problem to address as stated Livingstone is Limited capacity to include youths in decision making processes. Victoria Falls define the problem Low involvement of youth in community issues. In Dorotea the young population has low trust in politicians; approximately 30% of our young people aged 13-16 state that they trust…
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…
Växjö kommun and Kalush, Ukraine
Youth Participation in Local Governance The Växjö–Kalush partnership focuses on strengthening youth participation in local governance. In Kalush, a common issue is that youth lack awareness of their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. In contrast, Växjö struggles with limited platforms and feedback mechanisms, relying mostly on already politically interested young people. To address…
Umeå and Bogotá, Colombia
Project: Exploring gender equality and care: a territorial approach Umeå and Bogotá, Colombia, will together address the in Bogotá, around 1.2 million of women dedicate more than seven hours a day to unpaid work. The objectives are focused around Policy implementation as well as Information sharing on this issue: • To implement the cultural transformation…
Voluntary Local Review – Kibaha Town Council, Tanzania
This Voluntary Local Review (VLR) aims at understanding how well the SDGs have been localized and implemented in Kibaha Town Council (KTC), Tanzania. The process employed Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to represent local voices in a participatory and inclusive manner. The results show that localization of SDGs has helped the government and citizens to…
Voluntary Local Review – Emboreet village, Manyara, Tanzania
The United Nations Agenda 2030 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets to address global social, environmental, and economic challenges by 2030, of which many must be implemented at the local level. Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) have gained prominence as a means for local and regional governments to assess SDG progress and remaining…
Voluntary Local Review – City of Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This report looks into the localisation of SDGs in the City of Bijeljina, which is an SDG pioneer in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reviews three SDGs – SDG5 (gender equality), SDG10 (inclusion), and SDG17 (partnerships towards goals) – through the lens of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) which is based on an immersion of researchers into…
Collaborative efforts in Borås and Vračar for Disability Inclusion
The partnership project between Borås Municipality and the municipality of Vračar in Serbia is working to increase influence and participation for people with disabilities. Halfway into the project there are already tangible results to showcase. Vračar is one of the 17 district municipalities in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Through the partnership with Borås Municipality, they…
Local government for inclusion: centering non-exclusionary policies in a decentralized setting
This research in four municipalities and districts in West Java, Indonesia finds that marginalization, discrimination, and violence against religious and gender minorities is often justified by the presence of exclusionary morality-based policies. This brief explains under what conditions such policies are more likely to be adopted by the local government. This brief also recommends several…
Morality policies and the prospect for inclusive citizenship in decentralized Indonesia: A study of West Java
This study examines the making of exclusionary morality policies and how those policies have affected the lives of faith-based and gender-based minority groups in West Java, Indonesia. Combining policy review, in-depth case studies, and survey, we identify distinct patterns of exclusion, which are top-down for faith-based minorities and bottom-up for sexual/gender minorities. Around 121 exclusionary…
