The Blåklockan – Masimayane partnership to strengthen responses to violence against women
The overarching vision and longterm objective is to end violence against women and girls in South Africa and Sweden. This project will contribute to the awareness of and prevention of violence against women and girls. And also contribute to strengthen the support mechanisms for women and children who do have experienced violence in Gävle and…
Help-desks for sustainable livelihood in Busia and Robertsfors
The long-term objective of this project is the development of Robertsfors and Busia as good examples of municipalities who works for and with sustainable livelihood based on well informed situational and strategic analysis. Results from this work will be new business, job opportunities, creative networks which will deliver sustainable livelihood for people, households, business and…
Electricity Master Plan – Electricity Maintenance System Phase II
Maintenance of the electrical network is crucial to ensure the safe and continuous supply of electricity to consumers. BCM currently carries out maintenance through archaic maintenance plans without effective monitoring and record of the maintenance being done. A maintenance system is required that will adequately log and monitor the maintenance of the electricity infrastructure in…
Social Welfare and NGO Partnership
The partnership between Åmål and Manafwa municipalities was established with the objective of establishing links between NGOs and CBOs in Åmål and Manafwa. The aim of the project is to: improve on social welfare services in the two municipalities improve interaction between municipal authorities and civil society and create awareness about social welfare challenges in…
Quality education
The project objective is to enhance pupils council and develop entrepreneurial learning. All classes are represented in pupils council. The expected results are that more pupils dare and are able to communicate in English and more pupils are active to analyze how to solve problems. The overall objective is to create independent youth who dare…
Water Management
In UGU District, as in South Africa in general, to communicate information between the producer of piped drinking water and the consumers is a major problem, especially in the rural areas. Major reasons for this are the lack of junior engineering staff who can work with information and education, and the fact that information on…
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…
Thematic Job Shadowing in the Field of Social Inclusion
The general objective is to make our municipalities become national “best practices” where inclusion and equality foster sustainable growth. The aim of the project is to supply each other’s organisations with an analysis of and recommendations on sectors which can be improved in order to increase social inclusion. This will be done through informal examination…
More Living-Active Age
In previous projects between the Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa and the Regional Council in Kalmar County has the importance of the local heritage for social cohesion and community development played an important role. The focus has been on young people and the local population. An obvious result of this has been the formation…
Citizen´s Dialogue Based Waste Management and Waste Water Treatment
Citizen´s Dialogue Based Waste Management and Waste Water Treatment is a partnership program between Hörby municipality and the City of Peja in Kosovo. The project will be conducted over three years – 2016-2019 – and is the continuation of the partnership between the two cities that was established in 2011. The overall objective of the…
