Inclusive leadership and governance
Young Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development
The vision of the partnership is to increase the possibilities and commitment among youth for local societal issues especially concerning sustainable development. The project objective is that both parties have a platform where children, youths and adults meet, exchange experiences and collaborate for a sustainable development of the local society where the creativity and commitment…
The School Compass – Finalization of a municipal comparison
The aim is to create, try and evaluate a method for comparison in the purpose to ease understanding about leadership and operation control during partnership projects between different countries and also focus on the management results concerning structural quality, process quality and result quality. The focus is on education. We have translated and transformed a…
Civil dialogue to create an attractive image of Jinja
An attractive image of a city creates many possibilities to attract residents, investments and tourists. Developing the dialogue with the residents to reach this has been identified as a key issue in the Jinja-Skellefteå partnership. The objective of this project is that staff & politicians in JMC have the capacity in using an inclusive public…
Haparanda stad and Papernyanskij Municipality, Belarus
Improving municipal services by employing modern technologies. This is a three-party cooperation including Kovdor, Russia as the third part. The cooperation between Hapapanda and Kovdor municipalities has led to the continuation including the municipality of Papernyanskij and a project in the field of municipal services, aimed at improving services within educational, cultural and social sectors…
Human Resources – public exchange around practical leadership work and strategies
The overall objective – the long-term vision – of the new Human Resources (HR) project is to promote the two cooperating municipalities to become highly attractive employers for new and existing personnel. The overall objective includes the establishment of efficient and professionalized good leadership practices, facilitating a creative atmosphere with motivated employees having the will…
International Team Finance
The partnership between Växjö municipality and Tlokwe city councils resulted to the project named “International Team Finance” that is a one year project with the goal of improving on local democracy and local administration. The key areas of implementation focuses on: the budgetary process – compilation and management, principles for municipal economy, revenue collection, debt…
Good Governance – Civic participation and planning for housing
Providing affordable, safe and comfortable housing is an essential aspect of service delivery for local governments. Housing forms one of the basic democratic rights. South Africa however, faces a housing crisis for the poor. Local municipalities like Buffalo City are still battling with informal settlements (shacks) and there seems to be no real progress on…
Women’s empowerment through development of local democracy
The objective of the project, which is a collaboration between Piteå and Chinsali Municipality in Zambia, is that: Officials and elected representatives in Chinsali have the capacity to involve women in the development of local democracy. When the three-year project is completed, the Municipality should have developed methods to involve women in development, and that…
Human Resources – municipal exchange around good leadership and future recruitment
The project “Human Resources – municipal exchange around good leadership and future recruitment” constitutes one-year cooperation between the City of Växjö (formal owner of the project), the Municipality of Älmhult and Tlokwe City Council (South Africa). The overall objective of the new project is to study municipal Human Resources work (HR work) in Sweden and…
Östhammars kommun – City of Poti Sakrebulo, Georgia
Develop Local Democracy by Creating Public Engagement and Involvement in Community and Civil Society Development The overall objective is that citizens are taking active part in the decision making process and their engagement/participation contributes to a more local democratic society – a more democratic local society and good governance. The citizens will learn how to…
