The partnership between Västerås and Shatsk focuses on addressing the severe impacts of the war on children. The collaboration aims to provide psychological support and new experiences to help children cope with their trauma and create new opportunities for the future.
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 fokus, säger Jim Enström, programhandläggare på ICLD.
Det är 75 deltagare från Sverige och från Ukraina som samlas för att för första gången mötas IRL. Det sker inom ramen för ICLD:s partnerskapsnätverk “Demokratisk resiliens” – med demokrati som motståndskraft – som parterna nu träffas. Nätverksmötet äger rum i Sarajevo.
Under konferensen får deltagarna bland annat fördjupning i ämnen som deltagande demokrati, mänskliga rättigheter, korruption och decentralisering. Parterna fick även stöttning inför sina kommande projektansökningar.
Kalmar och Poltava är en av de partnerskapen som ingår i nätverket för demokratisk resiliens. Kommunalrådet i Kalmar, Erik Ciardi, ser att det båda kommunerna har en hel del saker gemensamt. Båda är en universitetsstad, har mycket jordbruk och den gröna näringen är viktig för dem båda.
”Kalmar hoppas kunna stärka den lokala demokratin och förutsättningarna i Poltava samtidigt som de kan ge oss mycket kunskap i frågor som handlar om beredskap och krishantering. Genom vårt partnerskap kan vi bidra och lära av varandra, stärka våra samhällen och växa tillsammans,” säger Erik Ciardi.
Följande kommuner/region ingår partnerskap med ukrainsk motsvarighet
Falu kommun och Kolomyia
Region Gotland och Berislav
Höör kommun och Kopychynitsi
Jönköpings kommun och Berdychiv
Kalmar kommun och Poltava
Karlskrona kommun och Chortkiv
Lidingö stad och Slavuta
Piteå kommun och Lutsk
Ronneby kommun och Ternopil
Umeå kommun och Cherson
Västerås stad och Shatsk
Växjö kommun och Kalush
Med demokrati som motståndskraft – svenska & ukrainska kommuner i partnerskap
Continuing the partnership between Gaborone and Västerås this is a knowledge and experience exchange project within waste management and sustainable consumption.
The overall objective is to achieve improved community resilience and a more sustainable environment in Gaborone and in Västerås.
This will be achieved by targeting three organisational areas:
The project will provide the partners with experience regarding project management, residents dialogue, community empowerment, public-private collaboration, and more, thus strengthening the organisations’ capacities to deal with complex challenges in the future. The residents’ awareness of how their behaviors affect local environmental health is expected to increase.
The short-term aim of this project is to develop an existing partnership related to residents’ dialogues between the municipalities Jinan and Västerås. It means meeting residents’ needs and continuously improve efficiency and availability with focus on Contact Centre and Hotline12345, the single point of entry for residents who want to contact Västerås and Jinan, respectively.
Jinan is developing an international standard for contact centres, where different aspects are addressed. Västerås contributes with views on democracy and participation, perspectives from our core values – always the best possible interaction, creativity, diversity, openness and inclusion.
One of the goals of Contact Centre is to provide equal quality of service regardless of the recipient. The long-term goal of the project is to find new solutions for change, development and renewal of the municipalities’ work to maintain confidence and trust between the community and residents. The participation of the residents is crucial. Similarities and differences are strengths: the size, handling of big data and systematics of Jinan and the focus on soft values such as inclusion, creativity and openness of Västerås, as the two cities try to meet residents’ needs.
The aim of the project is to develop an international standard for contact centres/hotlines.
The overall objective is a more efficient waste management in Gaborone in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability, and a strengthened legitimacy for local democracy when the elected City Council is more reliable in providing waste management services for the citizens.
Through sound resource handling, a recycling and transfer station will help mitigate climate change and environmental impact from waste management, while creating job opportunities and strengthening the local government through the public-private partnership.
At the end of the project period, there is a comprehensive feasibility study for a waste transfer station with recycling possibilities, including technical design, location, and an environmental impact assessment as well as business and ownership models. The feasibility study shall be detailed enough to constitute a basis for procurement of the implementation of the station.
This project tries to find new solutions for change, development and renewal of the municipal work in order to establish and maintain trust between the community and residents.
Project objective:
To develop new methods that invite people to participate, make them heard and influence the direction of the future in the communication between local authorities and residents.
Project objectives indicators:
Continuing the partnership between Gaborone and Västerås this is a knowledge and experience exchange project within waste management.
The overall objective is to achieve improved community resilience and a more sustainable environment in Gaborone and in Västerås.
The aim is to:
The project will provide the partners with experience regarding project management, residents dialogue, community empowerment, public-private collaboration, and more, thus strengthening the organisations’ capacities to deal with complex challenges in the future. The residents’ awareness of how their behaviours affect local environmental health is expected to increase.
Central for the project implementation are the Västerås public waste management and public housing companies, three schools in the pilot area in Gaborone and one school in Västerås.
After evaluation of the experience exchange and the pilot, the ambition is that source separation of recyclables will be expanded to the rest of Gaborone, forming a foundation for a sustainable resource management where waste is treated as a valuable resource.