South Africa
Municipal work to empower children and youths in lines with a Gender Equality perspective
The overall objective of the new project is to empower children and youths in Växjö and Potchefstroom to become informed, aware and responsible citizens. The realization of the overall objective will lead to inclusion, partaking, social engagement and the strengthening of gender equality and overall democratic values. As opposite, it will reduce risks of indifference,…
Waste Management Strategy, for the Municipality of Ulundi
The main objective for our project “Waste Management Strategy”, is that Ulundi will have a Waste Mangement strategy based on the conditions for the Municipality of Ulundi. We hope Waste Mangement will provide more opportunities to have an income, especially for women although gender equality is a basic element for the whole project. During this…
Distanspedagogik steg 2
The overall objective of the project is to obtain an increased level of democracy and prosperity by improving access to education in rural areas and thus achieve higher level of education and increased employability. The activities undertaken have been creating a distance education network where education providers, managers, project managers, coordinators, teachers, technicians and administrative…
Bridging Nature, Heritage and Folkbildning
The project means a mentorship to guarantee the future for Historic Environment Education in the Cape Winelands with a National Centre and an office at the Worcester Museum. The mentorship involves capacity building with the support to form the organisation Bridging Ages South Africa, handle the props and historical costumes, draw up strategies etc. It…
Sustainable Communities – public participation, densification and the planning of public open spaces
Sustainable Communities Planning (SCP) is a methodology developed by Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) designed to increase levels of sustainability and integration in the urban areas. It promotes a participatory approach to urban planning. Although the SCP methodology covers a broad spectrum of planning issues related to the Millennium Development Goals, this project aims to…
Climate Change
The project aims to strengthen capacity around the institutionalisation of climate response considerations into municipal planning and processes in order to ensure that a city is able to effectively respond to both the challenges and opportunities arising from climate change. The project proposes to identify the barriers to ensuring effective climate response within a city,…
International Team Finance
The partnership between Växjö municipality and Tlokwe city councils resulted to the project named “International Team Finance” that is a one year project with the goal of improving on local democracy and local administration. The key areas of implementation focuses on: the budgetary process – compilation and management, principles for municipal economy, revenue collection, debt…
International Team Finance 2
The overall objective is to raise the level of competence among the participants with regards to the areas of focus. Finding and sharing good methods for the municipal financial work within the nine identified areas. Striving towards ensuring that tax and rate payers’ money is used in the most effective, efficient and economical manner possible.…
Leseding – give light (Adult education 2)
Leseding is a two-year project sprung from a previous project focusing on Adult Education in South Africa and Sweden. The two areas of focus are career guidance and curriculums. The South African side wish to develop their career guidance using “the Växjö-model” of Centralen as a starting point (www.centralen.vaxjo.se). In South Africa career guidance today…
Youth development program
The overall objective is the strengthening of youth leadership that has the expertise to work with local democratic development, leadership in multicultural environments and harsh environments of the sport as an arena. The following objectives will be implemented during the project: An internet-based training will be conducted for at least twenty leaders. Exchanges programs will…
