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Cultracy
As a result of the inception phase for a ICLD municipality partnership, which was completed in summer 2009, the Municipality Office, the Employment and Social Services Administration in Karlstad got granted two municipality partnership projects in cooperation with the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality our twin city since 2008. The objective of this project is to develop…
Environment Behaviour
The project’s overall objective is to strengthen the capacity of Lugazi Town Council to involve citizens in decision making processes and hence strengthen the confidence and trust between the two groups. The project will provide methods and tools to work with citizens towards the set goals but also to work with its own administration and…
Exchange of competences and experience for a better quality and patient safety in health care
The overall project objective is exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of quality and patient safety, which in turn can help to improve health and reduce patient injuries, a better quality of life for citizens. By comparing the work with quality and patient safety between Kronoberg County Council, Växjö and Tlokwe City Council,…
Equitable Health – Building capacity to address healthcare challenges in rural areas
Health inequity is a serious global problem and social determinants are strong predictors for health status. So is the place where you live; people in urban areas typically have better health than people in rural communities, where healthcare resources additionally are scarce. This project builds on the joint challenge of the two partners to provide…
Solid Waste Management
The local governments of Åmål and Manafwa municipalities have identified environmental management as one of the priority areas for municipal partnership. The key area of the cooperation is capacity building in the field of environmental planning, including elaborating on appropriate methods and tools for administration and management of environmental strategies and actions and this is…
Children’s Great Growth
This is a three-party cooperation and the third part is Ukmerge, Lithuania. The aim of the project is transferring of knowledge and exchange of experiences in order to strengthen the possibilities for children in Kamyanets-Podilskyi Ukraine, Ukmerge Lithuania and in Herrljunga Municipality to get a good growth. The starting point of the project is to…
Sustainable Management of Water
In April 2007 a joint agreement on friendly co-operation between the cities Xi´an in China and Umeå in Sweden was signed. The agreement focuses on three areas: Culture, Biotech and Energy and environmental technologies. For Xi’an, as the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and with a growing economic development, the water pollution from…
Ambulance Services
The Ambulance services in Buffalo City and Gävle were earlier involved in the project “Disaster management”. It was successful and it opened our eyes to issues in the ambulance organization in both South Africa and Sweden, but more importantly it showed how both countries could assist each other to develop the ambulance services. The projects…
Sustainable Waste Management
A sustainable waste disposal system in the community of Tsumeb. The Project Objective is to increase knowledge and competency concerning a sustainable waste disposal system in the community of Tsumeb. The project can contribute to opening new opportunities for the citizens to use their powers of influence and thereby increase their level of participation. In…
Avfallshantering och återvinning – lokal utveckling för global hållbarhet
The overall objective is to contribute to a greater sustainability by reducing the environmental impact from waste. In a perspective of 10-15 years; this means to have a well-developed professional organization of waste management, recycling and reuse, and to be able to reduce the amount of garbage that the citizens consume. This provides benefits both…
