Inclusive leadership and governance

Region Stockholm and Jinja City, Uganda
June 14, 2021
Child Thrive: Neonatology, Child Rights, Emergency Care & Child Neurology (4 projects) Region Stockholm, through Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital (ALB), and Jinja City in Uganda, together with Non-Governmental Organisations in both countries, have established a partnership driving four interconnected projects. These projects share the joint objective of improving the quality of care for children, with…
Jönköping and Stellenbosch, South Africa
June 14, 2021
Human Rights 2.0 For over a year, representatives from Jönköping municipality and Stellenbosch have met digitally to get to know each other and discuss the municipalities’ various challenges. Workshops have also been carried out in both Stellenbosch and Jönköping with representatives from the municipalities’ various administrations and operations. In Jönköping, it was about specific areas/places…
Åmål and Bergrivier, South Africa
June 14, 2021
Culture as a path to development The municipalities of Åmål, Sweden, and Bergrivier, South Africa, have several common challenges. Our mutual focus is the high unemployment rate in our municipalities. Together we will focus our Inception phase and project planning around the target group “unemployed young women and mothers with unfinished high-school education”. There are…
Annual report 2020
May 3, 2021
“In a time when there is a real need for local democracy, the whole world has suffered a pandemic unparalleled in terms of infection and distribution. The Corona virus has shown, with all the clarity one could desire, that we are all part of a shared, global world. It has also shown that combatting infection…
Norrköping and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
February 18, 2021
This project builds on the results and methods of a previous project on solid waste management. It focuses on further implementation and completion of activities aimed to increase capacity building for a County-owned waste management company and adress issues of governance and coordination structures. Project: Environment protection NORELD 2020 Norrköping Municipality and Uasin Gishuy County…
Öckerö and Homa Bay, Kenya
February 16, 2021
Project: Children’s right to participation The project applied has a goal, which is to work together for better conditions, increased engagement in political issues, and the will to participate in decision-making processes among children and youths in our different municipalities. Another goal is to deepen the knowledge about The Convention on the Rights of the…
Organising grassroots initiatives for a more inclusive governance: constructing the city from below
November 4, 2020
With ever increasing numbers of people moving to urban areas, the world is facing increasing pressure on both ecological and human environments. Most of this growth is occurring in unplanned and underserved settlements in low- and middle-income countries. As the authors say, the resources and approaches needed to incorporate people and citizen-led initiatives into a…
Recentralisation? Interrogating the state of local democracy, good governance and development in Tanzania
November 4, 2020
This report investigates the extent to which Tanzanian Local Government Reform Programme has brought about more democratic decision-making processes. The main findings point to several positive changes. Good governance reforms, aiming to restructure central and local governments, have been undertaken and implemented. Parliament and the councils have been strengthened, as well as civil society organisations…
Global talk – Local walk, SDG#5 on Gender Equality
November 3, 2020
The aim of this study is to understand the processes of implementing Sustainable Development Goal 5 on Gender Equality into policies and practices at the municipal level in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH). Our research answers the following research questions: 1) What supportive policy frameworks exist at the federal, entity, canton and municipal level in BiH to support…
Child influence in local governments
October 31, 2020
This policy brief is based on the key lessons derived from a case study investigating how local governments can create conditions for child influence in decision making processes. The study was conducted by Christopher Owambla and Cornel Ogutu in 2019 who looked at municipal partnerships i three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It is hoped…