We are happy to announce that our international training programme on Municipal Finance has been selected as a good example in the UN Global Report on Good Practices in South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Sustainable Development as a “truly substantive, impactful and replicable programme”. – At ICLD we are proud to provide this programme together…
The second cohort of ICLD programme “Inclusive Political Leadership” has come to an end. 35 elected politicians local or regional assemblies, local government official and civil society from Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and Zambia has during the last digital workshop consolidate their learning, share the results of their respective change projects and to discuss key takeaways.…
The municipalities of Strängnäs and Dar es- Salaam have been working on a project that aims to increase the participation of young people in politics. Their partnership enabled new methods to be tested and applied for the younger generation to meet with local politicians and officials in the municipalities. This partnership shows how the Convention…
Have you ever been a participant in one of ICLD’s International Training Programmes? Continue your work with ICLD as part of our NEW Alumni network! ICLD has now started an alumni programme with the aim of continuing and strengthening our relationship with our former participants. Register here and stay connected (insert Alumni registration link). Together…
ICLD is making a call for one national mentor in Namibia for the International Training Programme “Leadership in Local Governance”. Deadline for the applications is October 18, 2020. The main responsibility of the Mentor is to support the four participants from one and the same municipality in Namibia with their change project and training. The…
To support municipalities in improving their protection of Human Rights (HR) at the local level, the ICLD is launching a new format for Municipal Partnerships this autumn. A few selected municipalities in Sweden and the Southern Africa region will be matched by ICLD and conduct a three year project on an topic of their choice…
The corona pandemic has posed completely new challenges for municipalities around the world. Various municipal operations have been heavily burdened and that required finding new ways of working within an extremely short period of time. Two international project teams that have completed ICLD’s training programme Public Financial Management and Local Economic Development have, thanks to…
Research is an integral part of the operation of ICLD. In a couple of interviews, we would like to feature some of our Advisory Group members who are researchers in the fields of local democracy and decentralisation. Today we meet Tomila Lankina, who is a Professor of International Relations at London School of Economics, and…
Research is an integral part of the operation of ICLD. In a couple of interviews, we would like to feature some of our Advisory Group members who are researchers in the fields of local democracy and decentralisation. Sten Hagberg, who is our guest today, is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the Director of Forum…
60 researchers from 30 countries participated in the first Local Democracy Academy organized by ICLD at Umeå University, June 2019. As one year has passed, we would like to take this opportunity to reconnect and share some of the most exciting news from both the alumni and mentors. By bringing researchers together with local governments…
