Inclusive leadership and governance

Lidköping and Lusaka, Zambia
April 19, 2018
Project: Sustainable Municipalities in Concert Based on the preliminary study, Lidköping Municipality and Lusaka LCC focus their future cooperation on sustainable waste management. We want to carry out communication activities to raise awareness of young people, politicians and officials in the municipality as well as publicly on waste and recycling from an environmental and health…
Robertsfors and Machakos, Kenya
April 18, 2018
Project: Actions for Gender Equality The long term objective with the project is to develop Robertsfors’ and Machakos’ implementation function regarding policies and their steering methods to reach set gender equality goals, to create more equal societies. The results from this work will be that the actors adjust, renew and carry out the equality activities…
2018 – Capacity and Social Capital for Local Government, Education Development
April 18, 2018
Application is to continue the ongoing project between Makunduchi and Sundsvall municipality (ICLDs dnr 2015-0113). The application is aiming for to continue the work in progress to increase and strengthen Makunduchi Ward Council to have social capacity, knowledge, experience and tools to work with the challenge to development of Makunduchi and especially educational development and…
Choisir la démocratie: la gestion des ressources naturelles pour les décideurs, bailleurs de fonds, et agents de terrain
March 23, 2018
Appuyer la démocratie locale pour la gestion des forêts est essentiel à l’amélioration du bien-être des populations. Les autorités forestières au niveau national recrutent souvent des experts qui ne rendent pas compte aux populations vivant en zone forestière. Beaucoup de décisions relatives aux forêts devraient être prises au niveau local. Cette note d’orientation politique propose…
Co-production of Services in Informal Settlements
January 4, 2018
In many informal settlements, a large number of informal sector waste pickers collect and separate household waste, providing an important service. However, waste pickers represent one of the most excluded, impoverished and disempowered segments of society. This study explores the challenges and potential solutions for the co-production of participatory waste management services in informal settlements,…
Impacting Local Democracy: Capacity Building of Local Governments in Zimbabwe
October 26, 2017
Local governments are key democratic institutions. In Zimbabwe, they have received considerable capacity development since independence through programmes using different approaches. One of the actors providing capacity building for local governments in Zimbabwe is Sweden, through the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). Since the turn of the century, capacity building for local governments has proceeded within a context of: Having…
Choosing Democracy: Natural Resource Management for Environmental Policy Makers, Donors and Practitioners
October 23, 2017
Supporting local democracy in forestry is crucial for enhancing local people’s wellbeing. Most public decisions in forestry remain centralized. Forestry authorities on the national level often hire experts who are not accountable to the to the local people living in and around the forests. Many decisions related to forests should be transferred to the local…
Zmijivka – Pilot village in a period of transition 2017 – 2020
July 12, 2017
The background is that in 1930 Gotland receive the majority of the returning Swedes from Gammalsvenskbyn in Ukraine, after they arrived in Sweden in 1929. The Swedish villagers have been a very substantial part of Gotland since. After Ukraine’s liberation in 1991 written a twinning agreement between the Municipality of Gotland and Gammalsvenskby 2001. Since…
Environment protection NORELD 2016
January 11, 2017
This project proposal is a result of the Inception phase which the parties had in 2015. The municipalities have decided to apply for a continued partnership within the area of solid Waste management. The overall objective of the project is to contribute to a sustainable and cleaner environment by supporting the administration and the inhabitants…
Kontaktcenter; utveckling av service och tillgänglighet
January 11, 2017
The two-year project is based on a problem analysis where the cooperation of the municipalities respectively Contact Centers are faced with a need for development regarding their work. It is about the overall development of availability, service, treatment, new technology and work environment that will affect citizens’ contact with local democracy. The results may also…