Social care and wellbeing

Securing the Right to Housing and Services in eThekwini’s Informal Settlements
June 21, 2022
Key Concepts: Spatial Inequality, Right to Housing Like other major cities in South Africa, Durban’s eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality faces a growing population fuelled by migration from both rural areas and neighbouring countries. Many new residents find shelter in informal settlements which are, although real communities, often overcrowded and unsafe, lacking critical infrastructure. The municipality’s Human…
Climate change is not the cause, migration is not the problem: Local representation and precarious young farmers leaving Senegal
November 9, 2020
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…
Programme objectives
October 19, 2020
Human Rights Based Approach The main objective of this training programme is to strengthen the ongoing change processes that contribute to social and economic development and to strengthen the institutions in the selected municipalities and regions. This will be achieved through participating municipalities integrating their work with human rights so that equality, participation, transparency and…
Admission requirements
October 19, 2020
Human Right Based Approach Invited countries Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. Target group This training aims to empower local and regional governments and administrations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. The following categories are welcome to apply; politicians, decision-makers and…
Understanding corruption through social norms
June 26, 2020
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…
Onsite greywater treatment for reuse at Zandspruit informal settlement in Johannesburg
June 26, 2020
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.…
Assessing the awareness, adoptability and sustainability of improved pellet cook stoves of low income households in Lusaka, Zambia.
March 27, 2020
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…
Alingsås and Chililabombwe, Zambia
December 4, 2018
Project: Equal value in the Democratic process After a pre-phase Alingsås and Chililabombwe in Zambia decided to continue collaborating around the subject Citizen Dialogue. In 2015, Alingsås and Chiliabombwe applied for continuing the project. The project was granted the steering group and the project group could continue the work during 2017. The project will face…
To strengthen the inclusion of young mothers in the local community
December 4, 2018
For almost 10 years, Arvidsjaur municipality and Mwanga district have collaborated within the framework of the Partnership Agreement, which was signed in 2009. A co-operation that gradually resulted in more structural changes in the local municipal organization and with clear effects in the operational operations. After almost 4 years, in close cooperation with the Healthcare…
Theories of Migration in and from Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Critique of Current Literature
October 2, 2018
This working paper presents an overview of the global literature on migration with a focus on rural areas. It discusses the general structure of the field of migration studies and outlines a typology of approaches found within this literature. Different theories on migration are examined. An interesting finding is the large amount of evidence confirming…