Local economic development, innovation and livelihoods
Young Entrepreneurs
Reduce youth unemployment and increase the number of young people creating their own jobs as well as jobs for others trough starting enterprises, thus also supporting themselves and paying taxes. Develop an entrepreneurial spirit, mentality, confidence and skill of the school going youth to enable them, when entering the labour market, to create their own…
Tourism – Development Centre
The project objective:HAI District has developed opportunities in the tourism sector, thus creating new jobs and developing the local economy. HAI District has an effective gender neutral group composed of politicians, officials and traders who have established a well-supported growth plan that improved the outlook for the district’s tourism sector. Growth Plan is based on…
Help-desks for sustainable livelihood in Busia and Robertsfors
The long-term objective of this project is the development of Robertsfors and Busia as good examples of municipalities who works for and with sustainable livelihood based on well informed situational and strategic analysis. Results from this work will be new business, job opportunities, creative networks which will deliver sustainable livelihood for people, households, business and…
Young Entrepreneurs in Africa YEE3
The project with its unique concept has been carried out successfully the last 13 years in Ale municipality. At two occasions, in 2010 and 2012 it has also been carried out in Budesti municipality in Moldova. Both projects in Moldova were funded by the ICLD. YEE training course is about attitudes. The main objective in…
SEKOS; Socialt Entreprenörskap Kosovo
This project proposal means a two-year implementation between the City of Växjö and Komuna Vushtrri, in which also Coompanion Kronoberg, social enterprises, networks and the Linnaeus University will participate. The project takes its starting-point from the development of social entrepreneurship in Sweden, which has not yet reached Kosovo. The municipal function to support businesses in…
Development of potential sectors in Rombo District
Rombo District wants to develop a local economy for a better use of the conditions that currently exist within the existing sectors and the new businesses that can be developed in connection with them. The aim is to create a wider economic base and local growth to retain and attract young people to stay in…
Capacity building for Sustainable Ecotourism
Region Västerbotten and Elgeyo Marakwet and The county of Elgeyo Marakwet in Kenya have worked together in an inceeptionphase and identified a joint area of cooperation relevant for both parties; capacity building for sustainable ecotourism. The main goal of the project is to establish capacity in the County Government of Elgeyo Marakwet to harness tourism…
Local Growth/Service Production
The Mwanga District shall contribute to the development of service-producing activities, of both private and public businesses, which seize the new possibilities that continuously arise in the municipality. The project shall develop a model of how service-producing activities, which seize the possibilities that already exist today within the municipality, can be developed in Mwanga. In…
Green Economy for Local Democracy
The overall objective of the project is to make Muheza District Council a role model for an innovative green economy and local democracy in Tanzania. The project is a strategy to spread economic power, promote innovation and engage rural areas in green production to better use the vast unused pool of resources and possibilities that…
Local Growth/Energy
Energy distribution is, despite of enormous amounts of solar energy and at times very good conditions for wind energy, a very large obstacle in the development of Tanzania and Mwanga District. Lack of energy, in addition to technical barriers and general problems, creates deforestation of solid fuel and illegal logging in order to produce coal…
