Social care and wellbeing
Paving way for support and skills-training of dropouts
The project objective sets a good and dynamic cooperation between public and voluntary actors when it comes to identifying, approaching and supporting young males and females, which have dropped out of school/education and gone into open unemployment. After two years of working together, the project partners have mapped internal relations, clarified responsibilities, exchanged best practices…
Family Centre for Children’s Rights
Overall objective is to develop activities to reduce child mortality and child poverty and thus increase the life expectancy in Ukraine and Lithuania. Co-ordination of existing resources are prioritized and parenting means that both mother and father involvement. The target is connected to the CRC that describes the child’s right to safety, respect and secure…
Tlokwe Inclusivity Disability Sector II
The two-year project aims to build capacity on local and regional level in order to start and develop daily activities for persons with mental and learning disability coming from the previously disadvantaged areas in Potchefstroom. Today there is a problem that young adults with disabilities after finishing school have nowhere to go and they end…
Cooperative Company – an opportunity
As a result of the inception phase for a municipality partnership, which was completed in summer 2009, the Municipality Office, the Department for Culture and Leisure and the Department for Employment and Social Services in Karlstad have the intention of running two projects in cooperation with the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality. The two municipalities of Gaziantep…
Left-Behind Children Caring Support
The overall objective of the project is that local authorities will have a high level of competence about stay-at-home children and teenagers. The project will primarily be conducted at the “Stay-at-home children and teenagers caring centre” in Qiankou Village but the methods and tools developed during the project and the results will be transferable to…
Social Welfare and NGO Partnership
The partnership between Åmål and Manafwa municipalities was established with the objective of establishing links between NGOs and CBOs in Åmål and Manafwa. The aim of the project is to: improve on social welfare services in the two municipalities improve interaction between municipal authorities and civil society and create awareness about social welfare challenges in…
Participation and voice implementation
Through the feasibility study “Participation and voice” we have been able to identify the problem and basis for a collaborative project between the municipalities regarding democracy issues for young people. The feasibility study’s results show many similar challenges, but with different strengths of the partners. A clear deficiency and thereby focus of the project is…
New Time
This is a project resulting from a cooperation agreement between Botkyrka municipality and the municipality of Ordu. The project named “new time” is in the field of social issues and the main goal is to improve on the social welfare service in Ordu and at the same time, ensure that both municipalities benefit from the…
The right to influence for children and youth
The project ‘The right to influence for children and youth’ aims to improve the knowledge of UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and to engage more young people in local democratic work in both participating municipalities. The project will primarily focus on working with young people aged 13-18 in certain schools and…
Voices of Reason
The goal for youth in Drakenstein and Kungsbacka, to have a deeper understanding of their history and society and that the channels of influence have been created, has partly been achieved during the year. During the project year, we have jointly created a good platform for further development. The project succeeded in sharing experiences that…
