Clearly defined problems are critical to the projects’ success and it is vital to involve all stakeholders in the process. These are just some of the key insights that the participants in ICLD’s…
In November, 25 participants in ICLD’s international training programme focusing on human rights spent three weeks in Sweden in order to further their understanding of the four target areas, namely equality, participation, transparency, and accountability.
26 participants from 5 countries in Eastern Europe are currently visiting ICLD in Visby as part of our international training programme that focuses on local governance with a rights-based approach.
Visby hosted the fourth round of the popular and much discussed training programme, organised by ICLD and aimed at leading female politicians from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
Hörby and Peja in Kosovo are developing a citizen dialogue on the subject of refuse collection. Västerås and Gabarone in Botswana are working with citizen dialogues and collaborations with trade and industry. These are just two of 32 new ICLD partnership projects.
Citizen dialogues have enabled the partnership between Västerbotten and Yogyakarta in Indonesia to identify ways of predicting outbreaks of dengue fever.
Lena Langlet is responsible for citizen dialogues at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions, SKL. She has identified a number of reasons why citizen dialogues are vital to Swedish municipalities and county councils.
Kalmar County Museum has developed a time travel methodology used by the Kalmar County regional federation and the Cape Winelands District in South Africa as part of their municipal partnership.
Hörby municipality’s partnership project with Peja municipality in Kosovo taught them the value of citizen dialogue.
Ale municipality already has a tradition of citizen dialogues, but has entered into a partnership with Ghanzi District Council in Botswana in order to further develop this approach.
