• Conducting Municipal Council Meetings with Social Distance

    This paper studies how COVID-19 related social distancing affects Swedish local council meetings and the situation for elected representatives. It is based on interviews with local political advisors, a professional group employed to assist elected representatives in their political work. Social distancing has affected the political agenda and the ways of organising local politics; digital…

  • Using Social Norms to Fight Corruption in Local Governments

    This policy brief looks into the role of social norms to fight corruption in the school system in the Cau Giay district in Hanoi. An ongoing research project has conducted multiple ethnographic field studies in schools and included parents, teachers, and other school personnel in the research data. Their experiences and reflections are the core…

  • City-to-City Peer Learning to Accelerate Localization of the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda

    This policy brief presents challenges and experiences ofdifferent cities and the possible strategies to accelerate theachievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) andthe New Urban Agenda as stipulated in the United Nationsdecade of action, to be addressed globally, locally and by thepeople. They are based on findings oftwo comparative projects undertaken by Mistra Urban Futures,an international…

  • Checklist for dialogue with children and young people

    Checklist for dialogue with children and young people

    This checklist is intended to facilitate the dialogue process between civil servants and children and young people. The checklist should preferably be used at an early stage in a process involving issues that affect children and young people, whether directly or indirectly. It can, for example, be used when drawing up new plans, budgets, projects,…

  • Women’s Political Leadership Programme – final evaluation report

    Women’s Political Leadership Programme – final evaluation report

    Final evaluation report of ICLD international training programme Women’s Political Leadership 2017-2019 The purpose and objective of this evaluation has been:

  • Proceedings of the academy

    Proceedings of the academy

    Over the course of five days, between December 14-18, ICLD organized the Local Democracy Academy, a place where representatives of local governments and researchers from all over the world meet to share and exchange ideas. The theme – Global Disruptions and Local Democracy for a Post-Covid World – generated a lot of interest, and the…

  • Annual report 2020

    Annual report 2020

    “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…

  • Opportunities for Sustainable Water Governance in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Many citizens in Ranchi, Jharkhand, suffer from the consequences of contaminated drinking water. The city’s water governance system therefore urgently needs to find ways to bring safe drinking water to its people. Prevalent models in water governance however do not provide effective guidance for the necessary transition process. They lack heuristics that facilitate an in-depth…

  • Local Democracy in Health Emergency

    This paper analyzes how local governments along with local communities have responded to the health emergency during the pandemic COVID-19. We conducted both content analysis and in-depth interviews to gather data. While the government followed a regulatory approach to enforce lockdown and health measures, we found that an inclusive and resilient community model may be…

  • Climate change is not the cause, migration is not the problem: Local representation and precarious young farmers leaving Senegal

    This project examines the role of local governments  in generating or reducing the current trend in which vulnerable people are migrating out of areas where climate variability is viewed as a driver of outmigration. The project seeks to identify means to make policy and practical responses to climate change supportive of local democracy – to…

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