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Vänersborg and Chobe, Botswana
Project: ECOWAMA36 Continuing the partnership between Chobe District and Vänersborg Municipality, this is a knowledge and experience exchange project within solid waste management. The overall objective is to achieve improved community resilience and a more sustainable environment in Chobe District and in Vänersborg. The project objective: Enhanced conditions for a more efficient and sustainable solid…
Växjö and JB Marks, South Africa
Project: Development of an Energy Plan in Line with Agenda 2030 “Development of an Energy Plan in Line with Agenda 2030” is a two-year project (2019-2020) based on the municipal partnership between Växjö Energi, Växjö municipality (Sweden) and JB Marks Local Municipality (South Africa). The project is based on the Sustainable Development Goal no 7:…
Växjö and An Giang, Vietnam
Project: Sustainable water management (Blue Vietnam) An Giang province in Vietnam and the Municipality of Växjö in Sweden, have implemented several partnership projects since 2010. This time, the partners have identified water management as the most relevant area for further cooperation and have in a thorough stakeholder and problem analysis prepared an implementation project that…
Åmål kommun – Dunhuang
The work with digital concepts for an increased safety, service and participation for elderly, have been an envisaged area of cooperation for a long time between the Municipality of Åmål and the City of Dunhuang. The cities face similar challenges where the proportion of elderly increases at the same time as the aging population grows.…
Växjö and JB Marks, South Africa
Project: Public skills training to create new job opportunities and fight poverty This project is based on the municipal partnership between City of Växjö and JB Marks Local Municipality (South Africa). The three-year proposal (2019-2021) consists of 15 activities and involves also regional partners, labour-office, university, civil society and private business sector. The project objective…
Region Västerbotten and Homa Bay, Kenya
Governance in providing accessible, affordable, equitable and quality health care service to the citizens The main objective is to establish structures and processes for a high-quality functional management, collaboration and coordination function/unit for equitable health care in Homa Bay County. Regarding the Centre for Rural Medicine (CRM) which is a department within The County Council…
Växjö and Vushtrri, Kosovo
Project: Sustainability education in preschool/primary school The purpose of the three-year project (2019-2021) is to strengthen the organizational capacity of the municipalities to educate preschool/primary school students in Vushtrri and Växjö about the environment and sustainability. For Växjö, it entails developing working methods and cross-border cooperation, both locally and globally. For Vushtrri’s part, it is…
Umeå kommun – Chan-ba
The project energy saving innovation in Urban housing will tackle the joint challenges of raising awareness/knowledge, engagement and participation in the perspective equality and democracy and how that can be a driver regarding energy saving actions and sustainable indoor environment in urban housing. By gathering project implementers linked to this field and relevant stakeholder we aim…
Mariestad and Kamyanets-Podilskiy, Ukraine and Ukmerge, Lithuania
Project: Sustainable municipalities The project aims to discuss and work with the main problem – how to improve unsustainable solutions for cities and communities (number 9 and 11 in UN global climate goals) and to implement strategies for Agenda 2030. The focus will be on sustainable development both from the ecological, social and economic point of…
Lycksele and Homa Bay, Kenya
Project: Sustainable water and waste management as a way of promoting public health The project objective is to produce a comprehensive plan for integrated waste and water management in Homa Bay County with focus on waste management supporting public health in the county. The project is linked to another project with a specific focus on…
