Inclusive leadership and governance
Empowering Women in Politics: Insights from 9th Cohort
As the 9th cohort of ICLD’s Women’s Political Leadership Programme concludes, reflections from former participants highlight its profound impact. With a collective voice, participants express gratitude for the invaluable lessons that underscored personal growth as political leaders and decision-makers. Selma Kadhila, Mayor of Tsandi Village Council in Namibia articulates: – A good leader must be…
Växjö kommun and Kalush, Ukraine
Youth Participation in Local Governance The Växjö–Kalush partnership focuses on strengthening youth participation in local governance. In Kalush, a common issue is that youth lack awareness of their rights and responsibilities in a democratic society. In contrast, Växjö struggles with limited platforms and feedback mechanisms, relying mostly on already politically interested young people. To address…
ICLD Survey Amplifies Voices of 2368 Citizens
In a move towards inclusive local democracy, ICLD has rolled out a participatory survey that helps to empower citizens to shape their local democracy. This initiative, implemented so far in seven local governments across three countries as part of ICLD’s Municipal Partnership programme, has surveyed 2368 individuals, shedding light on critical challenges for democratic development. …
Karlskrona and Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Karlskrona and Saldanha Bay Municipality will together adress the problem of Limited capacity to include youth in decision-making processes. Particularily when it comes to climate adaption issues since these may disproportionately impact youth. The objectives in Saldanha bay are focused around inclusion of underrepresented groups, as well as political committment on this issue: The partners…
Region Gotland and Kibaha Town Council
Project: Together against Gender Based Violence The project focuses on tackling gender-based violence (GBV) in Kibaha and Region Gotland with a specific focus on societal cooperation to address this urgent concern. It aims to enhance knowledge and implementation of national strategies, identifying gaps in gender desks and administrative levels at the village level in Kibaha.…
Voluntary Local Review – Kibaha Town Council, Tanzania
This Voluntary Local Review (VLR) aims at understanding how well the SDGs have been localized and implemented in Kibaha Town Council (KTC), Tanzania. The process employed Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to represent local voices in a participatory and inclusive manner. The results show that localization of SDGs has helped the government and citizens to…
Voluntary Local Review – Emboreet village, Manyara, Tanzania
The United Nations Agenda 2030 contains 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 targets to address global social, environmental, and economic challenges by 2030, of which many must be implemented at the local level. Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) have gained prominence as a means for local and regional governments to assess SDG progress and remaining…
Voluntary Local Review – City of Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This report looks into the localisation of SDGs in the City of Bijeljina, which is an SDG pioneer in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It reviews three SDGs – SDG5 (gender equality), SDG10 (inclusion), and SDG17 (partnerships towards goals) – through the lens of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) which is based on an immersion of researchers into…
Local government for inclusion: centering non-exclusionary policies in a decentralized setting
This research in four municipalities and districts in West Java, Indonesia finds that marginalization, discrimination, and violence against religious and gender minorities is often justified by the presence of exclusionary morality-based policies. This brief explains under what conditions such policies are more likely to be adopted by the local government. This brief also recommends several…
Increasing Transparency in Local Governments: Implementation and Evaluation of Citizen Budgets in Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe
Regional focus: Eastern Africa Time: October 2023 – June 2024 This action research project follows up on previous ICLD research by supporting local governments to implement a citizens budget and adapt the associated Toolbox to African experiences. Abstract: This research project investigates the implementation and impact of Citizen’s Budgets at the local level in selected countries. It…
