Malmö has a multicultural palette with which to work, with 181 nationalities represented in a concentrated space. This has obviously influenced the city, which lies on the threshold of Europe. “Separating global from local is virtually impossible here. Things that happen globally affect us too – that’s very apparent,” says Monika Månsson, a Project Manager…
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 has developed a new privacy policy due to the entry of GDPR on May 25, 2018.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
The change project in ICLD’s training programme with human rights based approach, can be a guide for people with functional variations throughout Serbia.
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.
