Environment/Climate change
Waste Management Vietnam
In 2010, collaboration between the An Giang province and the city of Växjö in the area of climate change and environmental awareness was initiated. Since then we have strengthened our collaboration by visiting each other to learn more about our different challenges and possibilities. We have participated and conducted different workshops that has strengthened their…
Sustainable Waste Management
The capacity to handle waste according to the demands stated in the environment legislation act by Uganda which has to be implemented within the organization of Lugazi Town Council. The aim of the project: an analysis of the landfill in Lugazi to be completed with regard to leachate management and environmental hazardous contents; a workshop…
Waste to Value in Palu
The project aims at several aspects of institutional Capacity development. The project will result in a changed profile in waste management for the community in Palu. The capacity for waste management will be strengthened through new developed systems for education on waste management. Through education and information as well as inviting NGO´s to discuss waste…
Awareness III – Local Sustainable Marin Food
The City of Malmö recently adopted the new Global Goals For Sustainable Development and made a commitment to implement them on a local level. This project also has an aim to promote partnerships between “North and South” which is in line with the goal “Partnerships for the goals” (no. 17). This project specifically focuses on…
PELIVAN – Power of Energy at Local level
Växjö municipality has earlier cooperated with the three Serbian municipalities Niš, Kula and Varvarin aiming for increasing the awareness of the need of a sustainable energy system and preparing the municipalities for approaching the EU. The municipalities developed strategic energy plans with visions and targets, and carried out technical visits and shared best practice. The…
Developing a mordern waste management in Voi
Overall Objective:Building a strategic well planned waste management focused on the specific area “Voi Central Business Area”, will serve as a model for developing the larger scale. By focusing on doing it step by step with great concern of the local possibilities today without forgetting planning for future development, we can see the overall objective…
Revamping Waste Management in Swakopmund through Recycling and Re-use
The objectives of the project are to recycle waste in a structured way, reduce the waste at the landfill and to create jobs for unemployed citizens. This will be done in two ways: Start recycling of household waste in the residential areas, where the households can separate the recyclable waste themselves. This will decrease the…
Waste Management and Implementation
The project aims to decrease poverty in Ulundi by increasing the municipal capacity on waste management to give the population a safer and healthier habitat, to increase the population’s ability to influence their own situation. To establish a sustainable waste management and growth in Ulundi, the project also includes capacity building on services to cooperatives…
Creating capacity centers for sustainable development
This application concerns one of three projects within the partnership between Robersfors, Sweden and Machakos, Kenya. A formal agreement for co-operation and partnership between Robertsfors and Machakos was signed in 2007. This partnership seeks to build the conditions which establish a base for long term sustainable change. Through this partnership both municipalities focus on producing…
Furnishing of Green Areas
The project is about developing skills in planning and management of green areas (including surrounding traffic situation) and improving the ways the perspective of the child is included in the planning and management. In this process, the two partners look at the example of Ripon Garden, in Jinja, and how the planning and management of…
