• Local participation in natural resource management initiatives

    Local participation in natural resource management initiatives: A case study of the Gola REDD+ project in Sierra Leone The United Nation’s programme, Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is an international policy mechanism to mitigate global climate change. REDD+ has a significant global impact that is changing how forests are managed around the…

  • Handbook for Municipal Partnerships

    This handbook is for anyone interested in, or currently working with theMunicipal Partnership Programme (in Sweden and partnership countries).It provides guidance for planning a new project using the Logical FrameworkApproach (LFA) and is tailored for actors in municipal partnerships. It alsoprovides support for a few of the challenges that a partnership may encounter.

  • Burning the woods and flooding the slums

    Burning the woods and flooding the slums: examining the socio-economic and environmental burden of wood charcoal in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Wood charcoal is the main source of energy for cooking in urban Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely known that charcoal production causes numerous environmental impacts, such as deforestation and environmental degradation. Interventions aimed at…

  • Participation of women with disabilities in local government decision making structures

    Participation of women with disabilities in local government decision making structures: Unpacking the Silent Voice. A qualitative study conducted in Lusaka, Zambia Participation of each and every person in governance system is a fundamental human right and a basic condition for democratic tenets in society regardless of their physical and socio-economic status in society. Persons…

  • Understanding corruption through social norms

    Understanding corruption through social norms – A field study about corrupt behaviour in local institutions in Lusaka Research shows that conventional policy interventions aiming to reduce corruption have yielded little success. Shifting the focus from macro level aspects of corruption to focus on micro-level aspects, such as social norms and individual decision-making processes, has recently…

  • To grip or to slip: smallholder inclusion in sustainable palm oil certifications in Riau, Indonesia

    Increasing global focus on sustainable palm oil (SPO) initiatives has led to discussions of smallholder integration at the bottom of the supply chain. In 2019, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) introduced a new standard for independent smallholders. Meanwhile, through Presidential Regulation no. 44 of 2020, the President of Indonesia recently made Indonesian Sustainable…

  • Onsite greywater treatment for reuse at Zandspruit informal settlement in Johannesburg

    The urban landscape in South Africa is marred by informal settlements. Nearly a quarter of its population lives in shacks and do not have access to sufficient clean water and improved sanitation. The aim of the present study was to ascertain household daily water consumption and quantify the amount of greywater generated at Zandspruit slums.…

  • Partnerships on the road to strengthened local democracy – IQA report 2014

    During 2014, sixteen (16) in-depth Internal Quality Assessment (IQA) studies of projects under the auspices of the Municipal Partnership Programme were conducted. Their purpose was to investigate and explore how the partnerships contribute to achieving the Programme’s goals, to provide a foundation for further developing the Programme, to better support the partners, and to collect…

  • Partnerships on the road to strengthened local democracy – IQA report 2015

    This report describes, summarises and analyses the results followed up through the Internal Quality Assessment (IQA) in 2015 in the Municipal Partnership Programme at the International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). The follow-up included site visits in five different partnerships. Officers who work with the programme interviewed participants who are involved in the partnerships between…

  • Partnerships on the road to strengthened local democracy – IQA report 2016

    This report describes, summarises and analyses the results followed up through the Internal Quality Assessment (IQA) in 2016 in the Municipal Partnership Programme. The follow-up included site visits in two different partnerships. Officers who work with the Programme interviewed participants in partnerships between municipalities in Sweden, Indonesia and Vietnam. The 2016 IQA focuses on results…

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