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Stronger personal data protection Posts

On 25 May, the EU-wide introduction of the new General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, strengthened the way in which your personal data is protected. ICLD welcomes GDPR and is keen to ensure that you have every confidence in the way we process and store your personal data.

ICLD Integrity Policy Posts

ICLD has developed a new privacy policy due to the entry of GDPR on May 25, 2018.

Students for sustainability Posts

On the 23rd of May, ICLD arranged a workshop together with SWEDESD at Campus Gotland. At the workshop, nine master students who have received a grant to do fieldwork in one of ICLD’s countries of cooperation presented their essays on various issues related to local democracy.

Workshop in Belgrade for sustainable urban planning Posts

A four-day workshop in Belgrade marked the start of ICLD’s international capacity development programme for urban planning – Enabling Local Democracy and Inclusive Urban Planning through the SymbioCity Approach.
Twenty participants from the Ukraine, Turkey, Macedonia, and Serbia took part.
“They were very enthusiastic, and we established a good working climate around the methods we taught them. We mixed lectures with group work and headed out into the streets,” says Ana-Karin Municio.

“Anything is possible with gender mainstreaming” Posts

During the inception workshop of the brandnew ICLD traning programme Gender Mainstreaming Local Democracy in Kampala, a study-visit to Nansana Municipality was part of the agenda.
Mayor Regina Bakitte Nakazzi and Daniel Kawesi, town clerk in Nansana Municipality, are satisfied with the outcome:
“I learnt that good relationship between the mayor and technical arm is an enabler in the institution development”, says Regina Bakitte Nakazzi.

‘Know Your Neighbour Project’ can bring change in Lusaka Posts

The ‘Know Your Neighbour Project’ encourages residents of Kapwepwe Ward in Lusaka to know each other, to invite a neighbor to community meetings and to actively participate in local governance issues.
“I wake up each morning feeling positive that the initiative is the right one, and it is long overdue”, says Charity Kalombo, part of ICLD’s International Training Program “Inclusive political leadership.”

Many challenges for Zimbabwe after Mugabe Posts

The ousted Vice President Emmerson Mnagagwa took over as President when Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule came to an end after a military coup in November of last year.
However, Virginia Makanza, Midlands State University in Zimbabwe, says there are few signs of improvement at the moment.
“We need to understand what change means and what it enables. It took 37 years to destroy the economy and the incumbent President cannot bring about change overnight” she says.

With concrete force for real inclusion in Užice Posts

The change project in ICLD’s training programme with human rights based approach, can be a guide for people with functional variations throughout Serbia.

Strengthening local democracy through gender mainstreaming Posts

Robertsfors, Västerbotten in Sweden, and Machakos in Kenya, have made impressive progress within their ICLD Municipal Partnership and are now kicking off their latest project: Actions for Gender Equality.
Since 2007, Robertsfors has been working on various youth and education projects with Machakos, during which time questions regarding equality and gender arose.

ICLD Visby II Conference Posts

In late May 2016 ICLD held a conference in Visby, Sweden on “The Future of Local Government in a new Development Agenda – Cutting Edge Research, Reality Changing Policies”.