Tanzania
Women’s political representation and effective participation in Ngara, Tanzania
This action research project aimed at understanding the factors obstructing and enabling participation of women in the Ward Councils of Ngara, and design a policy intervention. The study employed qualitative methods including interviews, focus group discussions, and document reviews. Following empowerment theory, it reveals socio-economic, socio-cultural, and institutional factors hindering women’s participation, such as financial…
TRANS-Lighthouses
Regional Focus: Europe Time: 2023-2026 ICLD is part of the consortium of TRANS-Lighthouses – a Horizon Europe research and innovation project supporting inclusive, democratic, and transformative nature-based solutions (NBS). Through a network of pilot sites and assessment cases, TRANS-Lighthouses explores how participatory practices can enhance the design, governance, and impact of NBS. The project adopts…
Voluntary Local Reviews with community-based participatory research
Regional focus: Tanzania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Global Time: February – December 2023 Summary: ICLD is financing three small-scale studies to conduct Voluntary Local Reviews with participatory methods, and one comparative study to draw conclusions on the use of CBPR in reporting on the SDGs. The global movement of Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) is growing fast.…
Strängnäs-Emboreet,Tanzania
Project: Social Sustainability Strängnäs and Emboreet previously had a partnership between the years 2012-2016. In their new project, they intend to increase both Emboreet’s and Strängnäs’s ability to take young people’s ideas into account and thereby increase the level of democratic dialogues with adults in the village and higher decision-making organs to formulate strategies and…
Child-Focused Cities Analytical Framework
This research project, aiming to develop an analytical tool to address the Sustainable Development Goals from a child rights perspective, is divided into multiple steps. Phase two, conducted in 2023-2024 is described first while phase 1, which served to build the conceptual groundwork for the analytical framework, is described after. Phase 2 – Child-Focused Cities…
Admission requirements
Invited countries Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Target group The programme is aimed at governmental officials from local governments. Applicants must be nominated by their local government (municipality/county) and it must be clear in the application that the organisation supports the proposed change process with which the participants of the training intend to work during the…
Programme structure
The training consists of four compulsory workshops, of which all four are full time scheduled trainings. Periods between workshops are homebased. The total duration of the programme is 18 months. When?:The Inception workshop will be held in Zambia, February 15 – 18, 2022The Follow-up workshop will take place in Kenya, September 19 – 23, 2022.The…
Admission requirements
Invited countries All countries on the OECD-DAC listed ODA-eligible countries, are eligible for the programme, but if a local election is held during the year when the training takes place, the country is temporarily taken off the list. This is also aplicable if the country is having av election between August and December the current…
Programme structure
The training consists of three compulsory workshops, of which all three are full time scheduled trainings. Periods between workshops are homebased. The total duration of the programme is 12 months. When will cohort 12 take place:The Inception workshop will be held in late January 2026The Swedish Phase workshop will most likely take place in May 2026The Final workshop will take place…
Programme objectives
The programme aims to provide the following changes in the participant: During the training, the participant will work on her change process and implement a strategy to make the local authority equitable, participatory, transparent and accountable. Benefits: What we will offer: How? Change process The participant is expected to develop and work with a change process of…
