South Africa

  • Admission requirements

    Invited countries Botswana, South Africa, Zambia Target group The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights-network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one local government official and one representative of a civil society organization. Only candidates nominated by the appropriate organization (municipality, city, region)…

  • Programme objectives

    Inclusive Local Governance The main objective of this training programme is that participants develop new or improved practices and/or policies for inclusive public participation in their local governments. The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one…

  • Inclusive Local Governance

    Inclusive Local Governance

    The training focuses on improving practices for inclusive public participation. The participants will work on dilemmas and implement a strategy to make their municipalities equitable, participatory, transparent and accountable. By strengthening the capacity of selected teams and by strengthening the networks available to them, the training will result in new or improved practices and/or policies…

  • Ovanåker and Overstrand, South Africa

    Ovanåker and Overstrand, South Africa

    This application is part of the network “Municipal partnership for human rights”, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in southern Africa that have committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights-based strategy and are committed to work more systematically with human rights at the local level.Ovanåker Municipality…

  • Falun and Mogale, South Africa

    Falun and Mogale, South Africa

    This project is part of the “Municipal Partnership for Human Rights” network, an international network of municipal partnerships between Swedish local authorities and their international counterparts in Southern Africa that are committed to achieving Agenda 2030 through a rights based approach and that are keen to work more systematically with human rights at a local…

  • Jönköping and Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Jönköping and Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Human Rights 2.0 For over a year, representatives from Jönköping municipality and Stellenbosch have met digitally to get to know each other and discuss the municipalities’ various challenges. Workshops have also been carried out in both Stellenbosch and Jönköping with representatives from the municipalities’ various administrations and operations. In Jönköping, it was about specific areas/places…

  • Åmål and Bergrivier, South Africa

    Åmål and Bergrivier, South Africa

    Culture as a path to development The municipalities of Åmål, Sweden, and Bergrivier, South Africa, have several common challenges. Our mutual focus is the high unemployment rate in our municipalities. Together we will focus our Inception phase and project planning around the target group “unemployed young women and mothers with unfinished high-school education”.  There are…

  • Älmhult and JB Marks, South Africa

    Älmhult and JB Marks, South Africa

    Project: Strategic Planning of Green Open Spaces in Growing Cities The proposed project is based on a joint problem analysis where neither Älmhult municipality nor JB Marks municipality has a politically adopted green structure plan. It complicates priorities, the allocation of financial resources and prevents the optimal use of green spaces to benefit the environment…

  • Eight partnerships join network for human rights

    Eight partnerships join network for human rights

    Eight municipal partnerships will join the ICLD’s project network Municipal Partnerships for Human Rights. Alongside eight partner municipalities from Southern Africa, they will plan and carry out a project that will strengthen human rights and democracy at the local level. On September 1st, the ICLD made a call for declarations of interests for the new…

  • Admission requirements

    Invited countries Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Target group Only candidates nominated by the appropriate organization and in accordance with national rules will be considered. The programme is intended for individuals who hold key positions in Local Government organisations (municipalities, councils, regions) who are actively involved in strategic decision making. Candidates representing local…