This is a one year project resulting from an earlier established partnership between Söderhamn municipality and Ugu municipality in South Africa. The project is in the field of adult education and the main focus is on construction and development work. In South Africa there is a great shortage of skilled construction workers, while unemployment is…
The project is about developing skills in planning and management of green areas (including surrounding traffic situation) and improving the ways the perspective of the child is included in the planning and management. In this process, the two partners look at the example of Ripon Garden, in Jinja, and how the planning and management of…
Kalmar, Manisa, Bornova and Karsiyaka are jointly one of the municipal networks in the Tusenet-project between Sweden and Turkey, run by SKL International. This is a continuation of the project on implementing Time Travels in Turkey involving Karsiyaka, Bornova and Manisa municipalities and Kalmar municipality in Sweden. The first year has successfully finished and this…
The bill of rights contained in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) is the cornerstone of democracy in South Africa. The Constitution places responsibility on the state to respect, protect and promote the rights of all people – including the right to an environment that is not harmful…
Cities are now home to more than half of the global human population, and the urban share will continue to increase. Two areas of great concern in this context are waste management and clean energy provision. Tangshan, a city with ambitious plans for its prestigious venture of constructing the Caofeidian International Eco-city, addresses these issues…
The main objective for our project ”Waste Management Strategy”, is that Ulundi will have a Waste Mangement strategy based on the conditions for the Municipality of Ulundi. We hope Waste Mangement will provide more opportunities to have an income, especially for women although gender equality is a basic element for the whole project. During this…
The overall objective is to align transport and mobility policy and practices to the vision of the development of a sustainable and integrated city, accessible for all. To comprehensively change the mindset from transportation to sustainable mobility and the role that mobility plays in an integrated planning approach. The project objective is to formulate a…