• Building Political Will to Combat Corruption

    Building Political Will to Combat Corruption

    Authors: Marcia Grimes, Oksana Huss & Ksenia Ivanyshyn (2021) Pervasive corruption presents a challenge to scholars, practitioners, and activists. This policy brief reviews academic and policy perspectives on political will in anti-corruption efforts. The importance of political will for the success of anti-corruption reforms is widely cited, but knowledge gaps remain regarding why political will…

  • Toolbox for Study Visits

    Toolbox for Study Visits

    The role of local politicians and local governments can vary depending on the context. Visiting a local government in another country can contribute to new learnings and insights. This brief provides a set of questions to initiate discussion between local politicians in Sweden and their counterparts in ICLD partner countries during study visits abroad. The…

  • Improving local budget processes: from inclusion and transparency to equity and quality

    This policy brief analyses local budget processes and provides recommendations for their improvement. The analysis is based on the example of North Macedonia. We find evidence that: 1) greater transparency leads to greater citizen satisfaction with the quality of local services, especially for marginalised groups; 2) greater inclusion leads to greater citizen satisfaction with how…

  • Empowering Local Governments as Network Hubs in Facing Covid-19

    Emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic can create tensions between national and local government when these are attempting to apply strategies to manage an urgent or major situation. This policy brief highlights the role of cities during the pandemic in terms of providing a link among citizens, and to the national government. Coordinating and connecting…

  • Migrants in the Pandemic and the Challenge for Local Government

    This policy brief addresses a challenge for local government that has emerged with COVID-19,particularly in rural areas of developing countries. As the urban informal economy in India collapsed due to the pandemic, large numbers of people have been returning to their villages of origin in rural areas. However, some of their skills are not relevant…

  • Women and water scarcity in Botswana: Challenges and strategies in Kweneng District – The case study of Gakuto Village

    Women and water scarcity in Botswana: Challenges and strategies in Kweneng District – The case study of Gakuto Village

    The purpose of the paper is to examine how water scarcity affects women in Gakuto and strategies they use to adapt to water scarcity. Water is a basic necessity and a requirement for all according to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Botswana is one of the countries faced with water scarcity. The key geographical features…

  • Analyzing the Santa Maria Bay through the Social-Ecological System Framework: Identifying leverage points for sustainability in La Reforma, Sinaloa

    Small-scale fisheries are highly important in terms of economic productivity and environmentalrelevance in Mexico’s Northwest. The Santa María Bay (SMB), in Sinaloa, México, is the largest bay inthe state and is highly productive in terms of fishing and the economic activities derived from it. It isalso home to endemic species and the region’s largest mangrove…

  • Refugee local integration: Local governments as stakeholders in the implementation of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework in Uganda

    In 2016, member states of the United Nations, by consensus, adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, in which they also agreed to the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF). The framework, arguing for a multi-stakeholder inclusive approach that includes local authorities, was suggested to be a progressive step in establishing an international regime…

  • Our existence matter: Experiences and belonging of urban space from street hawkers perspective

    The study examines the experiences of street hawkers and contributes to the current but lessrepresented debate on hawkers’ ways of appropriating the urban space through space modificationand codification that serve greatly their capitalist purposes and how those daily activities influencetheir sense of belonging to the urban public space. The hawkers in the study area; LaNkwantanang-Madina…

  • Breaking the walls: the first Pride March in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Pride Marches are usually considered as the most important manifestations of LGBTI activismand politics, either as festive and commercial celebrations or protests against violations ofhuman rights of the LGBTI population. The first BiH Pride March from September 2019successfully took the form of the latter, under heavy security measures and without anyincidents in Sarajevo. Bosnia is…

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