Svensk partner: Hörby kommun

Waste Management

The municipality of Karasburg has a waste management system that is detrimental for a sustainable environment and Karasburg is eager to solve this problem. In cooperation between the municipalities, it is Hörbys task to add knowledge and experience from a waste management based on sustainability and lessening the environmental impact by recycling. The municipality of Karasburg contributes by finding contacts in order to find a market for recycling and spreading information and knowledge about the new system to employees and inhabitants.

The object for the project is to give the employees in Karasburg municipality the necessary knowledge of how to conduct a sustainable waste management.

Within the scope of the project, the old dump shall be closed and what’s possible recycled. The project shall also create a market for recycling where the waste is sorted, recyclable material sold and organic waste put in compost.

Projektområde

Technical Services and Infrastructure

Svensk partner

Hörby kommun

Internationell partner

Karasburg

Management and implementation of a strategic plan

This is a three-year period project in the field of local administration and local democracy resulting from the cooperation from Hörby and Karasburg municipalities respectively.

The project’s goal is to improve on the municipal governance and administration and in particular, the planning system in Karasburg municipality.

The objective is to develop a detailed, timely and advanced strategic planning system with the aim of improving on relevant service provision for all the municipal services. This includes water and sewage system infrastructure among others.

The activities planned for include study visits and trainings in strategic planning and management. The target groups are the relevant municipal employees, and all those that in one way or another are involved in decision making within the municipality. At the end of the project period, it is hoped that there will be a well structured strategic plan for the entire municipality with regard to service provision and that the quality of services provided will be substantially improved.

Projektområde

Inclusive leadership and governance

Svensk partner

Hörby kommun

Internationell partner

Karasburg

Kommunalteknik

The overall objective is to establish a functioning wastewater treatment and improved recycling of waste.

The project objective is that senior staff and operational staff in Peja aim to have good and relevant knowledge of how waste water treatment and waste management works, primarily with Swedish solutions, and senior staff in Hörby aim have good knowledge of the operations in Peja.

Projektområde

Technical Services and Infrastructure

Svensk partner

Hörby kommun

Internationell partner

Peja Municipality

Local Youth Democracy

The project’s goal is that young people between 13-21, work actively with and influence the municipal and council decision making. To empower the youth to become positive, disciplined and respectable members of their communities.

Projektområde

Education

Svensk partner

Hörby kommun

Internationell partner

Municipality of Karasburg

Citizen´s Dialogue Based Waste Management and Waste Water Treatment

Citizen´s Dialogue Based Waste Management and Waste Water Treatment is a partnership program between Hörby municipality and the City of Peja in Kosovo. The project will be conducted over three years – 2016-2019 – and is the continuation of the partnership between the two cities that was established in 2011.

The overall objective of the project is, by establishing democratic and including forum for citizen´s dialogue, to create sustainable structures for waste management and waste water treatment in Peja which in turn leads to the strengthening of the local democracy and promotion of positive social change.

Within the project period, the objective is, together with the citizens of Peja through citizen´s dialogue processes, to conduct a waste water treatment plan for a village consisting of 50-300 households together with a waste management communication plan targeted towards households and local business in the city centre.

Projektområde

Technical Services and Infrastructure

Svensk partner

Hörby kommun

Internationell partner

Peja Municipality