Piteå kommun
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Piteå – Lutsk, Ukraine
Project: Increase young people’s interest and impact in the municipality decision making process Piteå Municipality and Lutsk Municipality address the issue of low youth engagement in political life and decision-making processes in Ukraine, particularly in Lutsk. Young people often lack interaction with authorities and have insufficient awareness of government responsibilities, resulting in low civic competence.…
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Första partnerskapsmötet mellan svenska och ukrainska kommuner
Viljan hos svenska kommuner och regioner att stödja, stärka och bygga upp det ukrainska lokalsamhället är stor. 12 svenska kommuner och regioner har valt att via ICLD ingå partnerskap med en ukrainsk motsvarighet. Nu möts de för första gången ”på riktigt”! – Detta är en dag att minnas, där lokal demokrati som motståndskraft står i…
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Åtta svenska kommuner i ny satsning på mänskliga rättigheter
Åtta svenska kommuner kommer att bli del av ICLD:s fyraåriga internationella projektnätverk Kommunala partnerskap för mänskliga rättigheter. Tillsammans med åtta partnerkommuner i Södra Afrika ska de utforma varsitt projekt som ska lyfta arbetet med mänskliga rättigheter och lokal demokrati. Den första september utlyste ICLD den nya satsningen Kommunala partnerskap för mänskliga rättigheter, som ska skapa…
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Piteå and Chinsali, Zambia
Project: Empowerment of disadvantaged groups through local democracy In Chinsali there is low participation of women in local democracy and lack of trust for the municipality among the public. There is a lack of tools, knowledge/awareness and recourses within the municipal organization. In Piteå social economical and geographic factors leads to lower trust and lower…
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Piteå and An Giang, Vietnam
Project: Implementation of Action Plan for a sustainable An Giang province Piteå Municipality and An Giang Province has been cooperating since 2011 when we carried out an inception phase which led to “Piteå An Giang- sustainable municipalities (Dnr. 2011-0110 + 2011) and “Action plan for utilizing rice waste” (Dnr.2014-0065+0063). The cooperation between the two communities…
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Actionplan for utilizing rice waste
Piteå Municipality and An Giang Province has been cooperating since 2011 when we carried out an inception phase which led to “Piteå An Giang- sustainable municipalities. The base for the ongoing project is the district of Chau Thanh where one part is to make a “Rice waste to energy plan”. In meetings with the target…
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Piteå and An Giang – Sustainable Municipalities
The project is focusing on development of a strategy program for waste to energy, focusing on rice waste to energy which would be carried out during a time span of three years. Rice straw and rice husk are a potential natural biomass source for energy production. As of now, only a small part of rice…
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Women’s empowerment through development of local democracy
The objective of the project, which is a collaboration between Piteå and Chinsali Municipality in Zambia, is that: Officials and elected representatives in Chinsali have the capacity to involve women in the development of local democracy. When the three-year project is completed, the Municipality should have developed methods to involve women in development, and that…