Inclusive leadership and governance

  • Access to Urban Services for Inclusive Development in Asia

    Rapid urban growth has not benefited all residents equally, leading to an “urban divide”. The poor are left to bear most of the burdens and shortcomings particularly in terms of access to services. Despite its contribution to economic development, urbanization has led to an increasing incidence of urban poverty and inequity, deteriorating quality of the…

  • Strängnäs and Ilala, Tanzania

    Strängnäs and Ilala, Tanzania

    Project: Youth Council In Ilala municipality in Dar es Salaam, the youth have no opportunity to bring forward their opinions and ideas. The City Council don’t know how the youth’s situation looks like in Dar es Salaam. The project aims to start student councils in three schools in Ilala, which later transfers into a youth…

  • Piteå and An Giang, Vietnam

    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…

  • Lidköping and Lusaka, Zambia

    Lidköping and Lusaka, Zambia

    Project: Sustainable Municipalities in Concert Based on the preliminary study, Lidköping Municipality and Lusaka LCC focus their future cooperation on sustainable waste management. We want to carry out communication activities to raise awareness of young people, politicians and officials in the municipality as well as publicly on waste and recycling from an environmental and health…

  • Robertsfors and Machakos, Kenya

    Robertsfors and Machakos, Kenya

    Project: Actions for Gender Equality The long term objective with the project is to develop Robertsfors’ and Machakos’ implementation function regarding policies and their steering methods to reach set gender equality goals, to create more equal societies. The results from this work will be that the actors adjust, renew and carry out the equality activities…

  • 2018 – Capacity and Social Capital for Local Government, Education Development

    2018 – Capacity and Social Capital for Local Government, Education Development

    Application is to continue the ongoing project between Makunduchi and Sundsvall municipality (ICLDs dnr 2015-0113). The application is aiming for to continue the work in progress to increase and strengthen Makunduchi Ward Council to have social capacity, knowledge, experience and tools to work with the challenge to development of Makunduchi and especially educational development and…

  • Choisir la démocratie: la gestion des ressources naturelles pour les décideurs, bailleurs de fonds, et agents de terrain

    Appuyer la démocratie locale pour la gestion des forêts est essentiel à l’amélioration du bien-être des populations. Les autorités forestières au niveau national recrutent souvent des experts qui ne rendent pas compte aux populations vivant en zone forestière. Beaucoup de décisions relatives aux forêts devraient être prises au niveau local. Cette note d’orientation politique propose…

  • Co-production of Services in Informal Settlements

    In many informal settlements, a large number of informal sector waste pickers collect and separate household waste, providing an important service. However, waste pickers represent one of the most excluded, impoverished and disempowered segments of society. This study explores the challenges and potential solutions for the co-production of participatory waste management services in informal settlements,…

  • Impacting Local Democracy: Capacity Building of Local Governments in Zimbabwe

    Local governments are key democratic institutions. In Zimbabwe, they have received considerable capacity development since independence through programmes using different approaches. One of the actors providing capacity building for local governments in Zimbabwe is Sweden, through the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). Since the turn of the century, capacity building for local governments has proceeded within a context of: Having…

  • Choosing Democracy: Natural Resource Management for Environmental Policy Makers, Donors and Practitioners

    Supporting local democracy in forestry is crucial for enhancing local people’s wellbeing. Most public decisions in forestry remain centralized. Forestry authorities on the national level often hire experts who are not accountable to the to the local people living in and around the forests. Many decisions related to forests should be transferred to the local…