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…
Region Östergötland and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
Developing cancer health care through institutional collaboration This project is the result of the inception phase project “Partnership for sustainable and Equitable health: Östergötland and Uasin Gishu”, dnr 2019-0031. The project aims to address the problems associated with unequal cancer care and low institutional capacity. Several causes to the main problem were identified: deficiencies regarding…
Västernorrland and Mombassa, Kenya
This project between Mombasa and Västernorrland seeks to improve the capacity of the two organizations to achieve a more sustainable consumption pattern and solid waste management. Project: Promoting sustainable consumption and waste management Mombasa and Västernorrland initated their partnership in 2013. Following their previous project, Building capacity to address literacy challenges and enhance democratic engagement…
Norrköping and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
This project builds on the results and methods of a previous project on solid waste management. It focuses on further implementation and completion of activities aimed to increase capacity building for a County-owned waste management company and adress issues of governance and coordination structures. Project: Environment protection NORELD 2020 Norrköping Municipality and Uasin Gishuy County…
Kalix and Masaka, Uganda
Project: Education for Mind Set Change. This 3-year project is the first project between Masaka and Kalix in the Municipal Partnership Programme. The partners conducted an inception during 2019 to outline this project. The aim of the project is to increase awareness of the importance of waste management and the negative impact of plastics on…
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…
Upplands-Bro and Muranga, Kenya
Project: Youth Participation Upplands-Bro and Muranga County are in many ways two very different municipalities in different parts of the world. At the same time, there are in many ways a similar problem of the often low participation of young people in the local community in general and in cultural and leisure activities in particular.…
Öckerö and Homa Bay, Kenya
Project: Children’s right to participation The project applied has a goal, which is to work together for better conditions, increased engagement in political issues, and the will to participate in decision-making processes among children and youths in our different municipalities. Another goal is to deepen the knowledge about The Convention on the Rights of the…
Umeå and Cau Giay, Vietnam
Project: Educators – Agents for Sustainable Development The main goal of the project is to establish better understanding among selected teachers in the pre-school and primary school on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development and on ESD which contributes to behavioural change, readiness and capacity to act for sustainable development. This project is also aimed at…
Umeå and Cau Giay, Vietnam
Project: Managers – Agents for Sustainable Development The main goal of the project is to increase the capacity among a selection of managers of school areas, schools and pre-schools to support education for sustainable development (ESD) which contributes to behavioural change, readiness and capacity to act for change based on the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.…
