The city of Malmö has been committed to sustainability issues long before 2015, the year when the UN assembly adopted the Sustainable development goals. As…

Partnerships are key to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ICLD works with several partners in promoting local democracy and sustainable development in…

We are happy to announce that our international training programme on Municipal Finance has been selected as a good example in the UN Global Report…

The municipalities of Strängnäs and Dar es- Salaam have been working on a project that aims to increase the participation of young people in politics.…

Växjö municipality in Sweden and An Giang province in Vietnam have inspired each other to new solutions through a partnership concerning water management. Their cooperation…

One of the vital components of the international training programmes is the presence of experienced mentors who are familiar with the specific conditions in the…

Lessons and methods learnt from Municipal Partnerships are valuable in the ongoing Corona crisis. J.B Marks municipality in South Africa is an example of this.…

Knowledge and working methods developed from the cooperation between Region Västerbotten and Yogyakarta are today being used to communicate about Covid-19 in Indonesia. – It…

– Politicians need to find new ways to communicate with young people on their terms. They will not come to the cityhall! says Debbie Hendricks,…

Härryda municipality and Homa Bay County in Kenya have partnered up to further the rights of children and youths based on the UN Convention of…

– With the empowerment from the ICLD programme we have been able to mobilize women in our community, says Farirai and Tungamirai. Tungamirai Dube is…

Gothenburg City and Nelson Mandela Bay municipality are celebrating 20 years of partnership. It is one of the longest partnerships within ICLD and together the…

ICLD's international training programme Gender Mainstreaming (2019-2021) have 24 participants from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Here are some of them.

One of ICLD’s training programmes has a special focus on Sustainable Development Goal #5 gender equality aimed at government officials who want to develop gender…

Through a series of personal portraits we highlight people who are playing a significant role in the development of local democracy where they live.

“I am inspired by the fact that others through history have worked hard to make the world a better place for me to live in.…

“A large share of the population is comprised by youth and they are also the ones that will create and carry our future society” These…

The objective of municipal partnerships is to strengthen local democracy by improving citizen’s access and by expanding opportunities for people to take part in local…

Since 2014, ICLD has run the advanced international training programme “Capacitating local leaders in Zimbabwe”.

"- The more resistance I met, the more engaged I have become. It’s strengthened me in my fight for women’s rights and other democratic issues!"…

“I am inspired by the success of women and children in our community. When I look back and see where I have come from, and…

Robertsfors municipality and Machakos County in Kenya have made some pretty impressive progress on their Actions for Gender Equality municipal partnership project.

"My mother used to be a rural woman with no exposure, but in the last 30 years she was able to join the local political…

– My commitment to local democracy comes from the belief that we can prosper only if we are tightly connected with the wider community. Those…

"- My focus is to help the community, especially to support women and promote women entrepreneurs and empower youth." These are the words of Restituta…

"- In the next five years I see myself working with young people and encouraging them to take responsability for themselves by becoming political leaders…

Lodwar, Kenya and Borlänge, Sweden. Two different municipalities approximately 6000km apart facing similar challenges: how to successfully integrate refugees into their communities and set them…

This SALAR checklist can be used by municipal partnerships that want to implement gender mainstreaming in their projects. It also describes the roles that elected…

Challenges and a knowledge gap exist at varying levels when it comes to recruiting and retaining healthcare workers in the most rural parts of the…

"Life Without Borders" is an ICLD-funded project in Russian Karelia aimed at breaking the social isolation of persons with functional variability. This is done by…

“We like challenges” is one of Borlänge Municipality’s core principles. The Chairman of the Municipal Executive Committee, Jan Bohman (Soc. Dem.), is looking to Kenya…

They’re very ambitious, they have multiple goals, and many of their challenges are shared. When Växjö and JB Marks Local Municipality from South Africa talk…

You could call Slobodanka Boba Dekic an LGBTI-activist. And that's what she is. She is also a powerful and important educator through her work as…

The city of Užice in Serbia has a plan to create employment opportunities and make public spaces more accessible for people who are differently abled.…

They met five years ago in the ICLD-programme ‘Local Political Leaders – Capacitating Women in Politics.’ The mentor and the student – now friends for…

Malmö has a multicultural palette with which to work, with 181 nationalities represented in a concentrated space. This has obviously influenced the city, which lies…

The ‘Know Your Neighbour Project’ encourages residents of Kapwepwe Ward in Lusaka to know each other, to invite a neighbor to community meetings and to…

The change project in ICLD's training programme with human rights based approach, can be a guide for people with functional variations throughout Serbia.

Livingstone, in Zambia, was the meeting place for an international ICLD conference on municipal partnerships attended by politicians from Zambia and Sweden in December 2017.…

Persons with disabilities in Macedonia are frequently marginalized in society and face numerous challenges in the enjoyment of their human rights. They are marginalized by…

According to the Ugandan Bureau of Statistics (Uganda Statistical Abstract 2015) the country’s deforestation rate was 5,4 percent per year between 2005 and 2010. The…

Nino Latsabidze and some of her colleagues from Tbilisi City Hall participated in ICLDs ITP program “Local Governance with a Rights Based Approach” in 2015-2016.…

For a change agent there are a lot of challenges. Especially when it comes to trying to change well-cemented structures like the budget processes in…

A solid waste management system in Haldwani, state of Uttrakhand in India, started off as a project for change by Neeraj Joshi. Neeraj attended the…

All over the world, people from rural areas are moving into the cities to build a future for themselves. In China, the escalating level of…

Long before there was a formal partnership between Vushtrri in Kosovo and the Swedish town of Växjö, the two towns had a connection. Around 1,000…

The first partnership between Gothenburg in Sweden and Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa was formed in 1999, since when a number of instructive projects…