South Africa

  • Youth Access Project

    Youth Access Project

    This project is one of four interrelated and integrated projects that form part of one programme or suite of projects. In order to understand the project in this context please refer to the accompanying document titled “Concept Document to accompany applications to ICLD on behalf of City of Gothenburg and Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality for…

  • Landstinget Kronoberg – North West 405 Municipality

    Landstinget Kronoberg – North West 405 Municipality

    The goal of the project “Sports, culture and integration program”, SCIP: a strengthened, competent municipal department organization where the staff promotes and supports local initiatives for volunteering and association forming within sport, culture and integration work. The project aims to create knowledge, understanding and insight into how the municipality can encourage and support local initiatives…

  • Accessible cities 2017-2020

    Accessible cities 2017-2020

    This project is one of four interrelated and integrated projects that form part of one programme or suite of projects. This project is the main project and it builds upon the work that has been previously done between NMBM and the City of Gothenburg. Based on the toolkit produced in the previous project we will…

  • Participation – A deeper understanding of the past builds a better future

    Participation – A deeper understanding of the past builds a better future

    Kalmar County Museum has developed a time travel methodology used by the Kalmar County regional federation and the Cape Winelands District in South Africa as part of their municipal partnership.

  • Public Financial Management and Local Economic Development

    Public Financial Management and Local Economic Development

    This programme has been finalised in June 2023 Are you a local government official in decision making position? Do you want to learn more about financial management and how to support local development? If the answer is yes – this programme is for you! This 18-month programme offers training in public financial management and local…

  • New Coordination Structure to support vulnerable families

    New Coordination Structure to support vulnerable families

    This new project is based on the partnership between the City of Växjö and North West 405 Municipality (former Tlokwe City Council) and suggests three years of cooperation (2017-2019) with active participation from regional authorities, labour office, the police, NGOs/CBOs etc. The project objective is to strengthen public capacity to provide support for family units…

  • A toolbox for success

    The first partnership between Gothenburg in Sweden and Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa was formed in 1999, since when a number of instructive projects have been conducted. In 2012, the two municipalities decided to take their partnership much further than ever before.

  • Choice, Recognition and Democracy Effects of Decentralization

    Many democratic decentralization reforms have been carried out in cooperation with CSO:s, the private sector and other non-governmental agents – but how does this affect the accountability and legitimacy of the local government? This paper examines the effects of institutional choices and exemplifies different democratic dimensions in the process of democratic decentralization. Based on experiences…

  • Limits to Local Democracy: The Politics of Urban Governance Transformations in Cape Town

    Is a decentralized government more effective and accountable than a state centred public administration?  This publication provides the reader with a new way of understanding modern urban governance from a South African perspective. The question of how to create political legitimacy is in focus and this publication is therefore a good source for understanding the…

  • Governance Dilemmas of Sustainable Cities

    New problems have emerged in a global context through the existence of major urban areas – how do these areas manage to combine sustainable city planning with decentralization and/or participatory local democracy? For researchers, public administration professionals and development practitioners alike this is a must read as a tool for creating sustainable solutions for urban…