ICLD is delighted to announce our new member in ICLD Advisory Group – professor Winnie V. Mitullah from Kenya. – I hope to bring into the ICLD Advisory Board research experience on local governance, engagement with policy makers and practitioners at the local level, and a network of scholars and development practitioners, says Winnie. Winnie is the…
Selina Wilson Msenga is a journalist at a major daily newspaper in Dar es Saleem in Tanzania. She also works as a part-time politician and holds the title of deputy mayor in the municipality of Kibaha, about 40 km west of Dar es Saleem. Selina has both been involved in ICLD training programme and in…
Carla Bezerra is a Brazilian researcher in political science and public policy, an alumni of the Local Democracy Academy and author of a brand new ICLD policy brief on participatory budgeting. When the government changed in Brazil, her expertise in participatory policy processes was leveraged in the Transition Cabinet, a sort of preparatory cabinet responsible for…
ICLD is issuing a call for Local Governments Associations in Africa to conduct a training with local governments on practical tools for inclusive governance. The application is open until the 15th of May 2023. Background The Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) has the goal to support local governments interested in improving their policies…
Region Gotland and Kibaha Town Council use their municipal partnership to improve gender equality and progress on the SDGs. Through their partnership they learn from each other, they also help each other learn from their own communities, and ICLD supports them with ways to learn even more. In the fall of 2022, both municipalities took…
Anjeza Bojaxhiu was born and raised in Tirana. Since 2013, she has been working as the municipality’s coordinator for domestic violence. Anjeza is also an alumnus of the ICLD’s Human Rights Based Approach training programme. We present her in our series Champions of Local Democracy. – Every day at work, I hear about serious cases…
Background Voluntary Local Reviews aim to track local governments’ progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, while providing them with data to improve the efforts. However, VLRs may focus only on desk reviews of policy documents and local government sources, missing important data on community perceptions and assets. ICLD is financing 3 research projects with the…
Ten master’s students studying at Swedish universities are awarded ICLD Fieldwork Grant for 2023. The students will conduct field studies in Ghana, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda during the spring of 2023. Back in November 2022, the students participated in an introductory workshop at Lund University where they presented their…
A municipal partnership between the Swedish municipality of Kungsör and the Zambian town council of Rufunsa is working together to ensure youth and women’s equal access to and full participation in decision-making. The aim is to transform the existing power structures which are designed to accommodate men and discriminate against women. The three-year partnership has…
Amasra municipality in Turkey is clearly making a statement for gender equality. – We don’t accept any discrimination or violence against women in our city says, Recai Çakır, the Mayor of Amasra. The mayor himself, the vice mayor Meltem Öz, Birgül Çay, and Ayşe Kaşıkırık from an NGO, constitute the team of Amasra in ICLD’s…
