South Africa
Alfred Nzo Waste Buy-back center
Objectives of the project are: to address and eradicate waste related issues within the Alfred Nzo District to raise awareness about waste management to encourage members of the communities within ANDM to clean-up their villages to create job opportunities for Alfred Nzo community members through waste collection. Expected results: Alfred Nzo District is expected to…
Examination of the gap between policy and implementation in local government
The overall objective is to have more effective implementation of all policies and strategies within a city context in order to improve service delivery at a local level. This in turn will ensure a more sustainable and integrated city. The project objective is to formulate a model of a sustainable urban mobility planning process aligned…
More Living-Active Age
In previous projects between the Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa and the Regional Council in Kalmar County has the importance of the local heritage for social cohesion and community development played an important role. The focus has been on young people and the local population. An obvious result of this has been the formation…
Public Relations, Best Practices 3
This is a one year project resulting from the previously established cooperation between the municipality of Växjö and Tlokwe city council. The project has been operational for two years and this is the third year of implementation. The aim of the project is to improve on the standards of local democracy and administration in Tlokwe…
Co-operation in air quality management and permetting between City of Göteborg and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
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…
Good Governance and Decision Making
The overall objective of the Good Governance Decision Making project is a more democratic society – improved decision making powers of local government, its citizens and groups within the community in order to find sustainable ways to meet social, economic and environmental needs and improve the quality of lives for all who live in the…
Politician Project: Leadership, Coalitions & Voters
The overall objective (10-15 years) is to strengthen democracy and structures of good governance at local and regional level in the two regions (Kronoberg/southern Småland and Tlokwe). The long-term objective includes highly attractive political parties, competent party workers and good leaders with the skill to cooperate with other parties and communicate with the citizens/community. In…
Tshwaraganang Library Project
This is a one year project resulting from the cooperation between Växjö municipality and Tlokwe city council in the area of culture and leisure. The project itself is called “Tshwaraganang – library project; and the goal of the project is to raise the level of competence and awareness regarding library services including: marketing the library,…
Human Resources – municipal exchange around good leadership and future recruitment
The project ”Human Resources – municipal exchange around good leadership and future recruitment” constitutes one-year cooperation between the City of Växjö (formal owner of the project), the Municipality of Älmhult and Tlokwe City Council (South Africa). The overall objective of the new project is to study municipal Human Resources work (HR work) in Sweden and…
Renewable Energy Pilot
The overall objective of the project is improved organizational structures and preparedness for energy-related issues. With the help of this project we see that in 10-15 years the following has happened: When the project is finalized, both Gävle Energi and Buffalo City will have exchanged methods for improving energy efficiency, established pre-requisites for implementation of…
