Six Swedish municipalities together with their counterparts in Botswana, Serbia, South Africa and Zambia will receive 11 million SEK for their municipal partnership projects. “Through Swedish municipalities working on issues of concern to them in partnership with other municipalities from low-income countries, our activities are enriched with new, unique insights and experiences, while at the…
The third cohort of ICLD’s training programme Leadership in Local Governence has come to an end. But continuation is secured! One of the seven teams in the programme, Sunday River Valley Municipality from South Africa has decided to enter a long term municipal partnership with Falkenberg municipality in Sweden. Congratulations! 26 participants, 7 supervisors and…
Rufunsa and Kungsör increase young people’s involvement in politics
Twelve master’s students studying at Swedish universities are awarded ICLD Fieldwork Grants for 2022. The 20,000 SEK grant enables the students to conduct a field study in an ICLD partner country for their thesis during the spring, 2022. On 29 November, the students participated in an introductory workshop at Lund University where they presented their…
Team Yogyakarta from ICLD Symbio City programme has recently won PIA 2021, a national competition in Indonesia for their work on how to use a SymbioCity approach in urban planning for more inclusive and sustainable development of slum areas. It is the Indonesian Development Planner Association that arrange the competition. The Yogyakarta team aims, through…
ICLD is making a call for a national mentor in Zambia for the international training programme “Gender Mainstreaming”. The Mentors’ main responsibility is to support the participants in their change processes during the length of the ICLD training programme. Support means to act as a sounding board and a “critical friend” to the participants to…
ICLD’s programme “Human Rights Based Approach” for municipal officials, politicians and civil society representatives in Eastern Europe focuses on enhancing municipal service and living conditions for the most vulnerable citizens by empowering them and realizing human rights principles in municipal practice. – This programme is a wonderful investment for a better future, says Tekla Khachidze,…
Forshaga municipality in Sweden is working hard to get political parties at municipal level to work together to tackle climate change – now they will be inspired in that effort by their partner municipality: Lundazi district council in Zambia. Forshaga’s environmental managers had never thought of working internationally to reduce emissions until a meeting organized by…
It will be a new start for the democracy project – the municipal partnership – between Lycksele municipality and Homa Bay county in Kenya. Together, the partners will develop a plan for integrated waste and water management in the Homa Bay area on Lake Victoria, in West Africa. The project was about to start already…
“We do ecological justice to our community…. we are the eyes of our community” that is how one participant summarized the role of waste picker organisations at a series of meetings in Nairobi, Kenya last month. Purpose of the meetings: organising a national network of waste picker organisations to convene in early 2022. ICLD has…
