• 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…

  • Results from the Municipal Partnerships – IQA report 2017

    In 2017/2018, the ICLD followed up on two municipal partnerships to see how they wereworking with issues related to accountability in local government. The report aims to convey key findings from these partnerships that can be of interest to other local governments. The two partnerships chosen for this follow-up were two long term partnerships which…

  • From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Understanding, Capacity, and Will to Change Local Government Practices

    In a recently published book by Springer: “New Urban Agenda in Asia-Pacific” learnings from local democracy work within the work of ICLD is highlighted in a chapter written by Björn Möller, Quality Assurance Manager. Local governments’ proximity to the citizens, and their understanding of the specific needs of the communities they govern, allow them to…

  • Governance for Urban Services in Asia

    Governance for Urban Services in Asia

    Governance for Urban Services – Access, Participation, Accountability and Transparency, a book supported by ICLD funding, has recently been published by Springer. Edited by Shabbir Cheema, PhD, the book examines the process through which marginalized groups including migrants and minorities participate in local decision-making and the extent to which they benefit from services and facilities…

  • Assessing the awareness, adoptability and sustainability of improved pellet cook stoves of low income households in Lusaka, Zambia.

    In order to attain sustainable development, there is need for clean and reliable energy. Woodfuel (charcoal and firewood) make up over 70 percent of the national energy consumption in Zambia as only about 25 percent of the population has access to electricity. It is among the most important domestic fuels for low income households in…

  • “Having the freedom to having freedom”. Youth Participatory Assessment of Accessibility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa

    This study explores the subjective definitions of access to the city in a group of young people in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Through semi-structured interviews, workshops, and participative observation those definitions emerged. Departing from the concept of perceived accessibility, it came apparent that those definitions gravitate around three essential elements: availability of safe and affordable…

  • Peace in the peaks? Changes in water and land distribution in Colombia’s southern highlands during the Post-Peace Agreement phase

    Governance of environmental resources plays a key role in enhancing or hindering progress towards peace in post-conflict societies. Two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government of Colombia, new dynamics on natural resource and land-use are leading to environmental harm in some regions.…

  • ICLD Country Briefs

    The ICLD Country Briefs is a publication series that investigates local democracy in the 19 countries where the ICLD municipal partnership programme operates. In these reports the authors elaborate on possibilities and barriers for local democracy and municipal partnerships. The reports give insights into the local contexts, and the capabilities of local governments which are…

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