South Africa
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
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
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
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
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
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 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…
Programme structure
The training is divided into nine compulsory phases, of which phases 2, 4, 6 and 8 are full time scheduled workshops. A large part of the work is homebased. Phases Phase 1Preparation (part-time, in home country) After confirmed selection, the participants will be contacted by the management team and by a national mentor. A short…
Programme objectives
Leadership in Local Governance The main objective of this training programme is to improve local and institutional governance. This will be achieved through exploring ways of making local governance in the involved municipalities equitable and inclusive. The participants will work on a change project together during the training and implement a strategy to make the…
