The #MeToo testimonies have rushed like a thought provoking wave over the world and opened people’s eyes to a societal construct. Including in workplaces. “This is an important issue for us, both internally and in all the large groups of people we meet through our programmes and courses. These are natural issues in our day-to-day…
Fair distribution of power, influence and resources for women and men is the fifth of the UN’s sustainable development goals. Many regard it as one of the most important goals and it is the focus of a new ICLD training programme. “I want to see gender equality analysis skills developed at the local level, together…
Livingstone, in Zambia, was the meeting place for an international ICLD conference on municipal partnerships attended by politicians from Zambia and Sweden in December 2017. It was also an opportunity for ICLD’s steering group to share experiences and be motivated in their roles. “It’s exciting to find we have the same goals, but are working…
Freedom, equality, fairness and freedom of expression were at the top of the list of important democratic cornerstones when Visby’s upper secondary school students had their say. Local democracy was on the agenda when ICLD invited them to attend an educational talk that encouraged them to debate and exchange ideas. “It’s important that I get…
Political steering groups are an important part of municipal partnerships, and ICLD aims to strengthen their role and develop their content. “We’re aiming to clarify the role of the politicians in the steering group and inspire them to play an important role in democratic development within the partnership. The aim is to do what we…
Attitudes towards gender issues have achieved an increasingly clear role in Bosnian domestic politics over the last 10 years. There is a national action plan, the institutions are in place, laws have been drafted, and policies and strategies formulated. “What it comes down to now is using the tools that exist, because the political will…
Colleagues from ICLD’s Knowledge Centre travelled to Yogyakarta in mid-December for the second Advisory Group meeting of 2017, the first of which was held in Lund in May. During their visit to Indonesia, the Advisory Group (AG) met with representatives of ICLD’s Municipal Partnerships (MP) and International Training Programmes (ITP) for an in-depth study of…
The following report describes, summarises and analyses the results followed up through the Internal Quality Assessment (IQA) in 2016 in the Municipal Partnership Programme at the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD).
ICLD shares experiences of local democracy development linked to Agenda 2030 in a seminar in collaboration with Mistra Urban Future at the Word Urban Forum, WUF9, in Kuala Lumpur.
As much as 85-95 per cent of respondents agree that they want to live in an equitable society. So why have we never achieved this? Well, because we live in a society that is governed and maintained by the norms that support the existing power structure.
