Technical Services and Infrastructure
Vänersborg and Chobe, Botswana
Project: ECOWAMA36 Continuing the partnership between Chobe District and Vänersborg Municipality, this is a knowledge and experience exchange project within solid waste management. The overall objective is to achieve improved community resilience and a more sustainable environment in Chobe District and in Vänersborg. The project objective: Enhanced conditions for a more efficient and sustainable solid…
Växjö and An Giang, Vietnam
Project: Sustainable water management (Blue Vietnam) An Giang province in Vietnam and the Municipality of Växjö in Sweden, have implemented several partnership projects since 2010. This time, the partners have identified water management as the most relevant area for further cooperation and have in a thorough stakeholder and problem analysis prepared an implementation project that…
Arvika and Uasin Gishu, Kenya
Project: Action plan for equity in safe drinking water access The main problem in Moi’s Bridge, a town belonging to Uasin Gishu County, is low access to safe drinking water. The Constitution of Kenya stipulated that the responsibility of providing safe drinking water lies with the County. The inception phase showed that inequity prevails in…
Training of smoke diver instructors, trilateral cooperation Grodno – Motala – Vologda
The objective of the project is to reduce the risk of injury to firemen when they are smoke diving but also to reduce damage to the environment, property and victims involved in fires. This will be the result when firemen have the ability to make their own risk assessments and learn how to fight fires…
Organic waste management for biogas production
The project has the purpose to transfer experiences and know-how between Mysore and Eskilstuna to build up a sustainable system for handling of organic waste for biogas production in Mysore. Mysore City Corporation has a lack of knowledge and experiences of sustainable systems for waste handling and waste water treatment. Eskilstuna will contribute to this…
Waste Management
The municipality of Karasburg has a waste management system that is detrimental for a sustainable environment and Karasburg is eager to solve this problem. In cooperation between the municipalities, it is Hörbys task to add knowledge and experience from a waste management based on sustainability and lessening the environmental impact by recycling. The municipality of…
Water Management
In UGU District, as in South Africa in general, to communicate information between the producer of piped drinking water and the consumers is a major problem, especially in the rural areas. Major reasons for this are the lack of junior engineering staff who can work with information and education, and the fact that information on…
Water and Sewage Treatment
This is a three-party cooperation where the municipality if Piesti in Rumania is the third part. This project comprises an exchange of knowledge and experiences in providing efficient management from a financial/technical aspect of investments, operations and long-term planning within water and sewage treatment. A prioritised issue, identified and relevant in the project, are the…
TangMa Training Programme OWRE
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…
WiFi in rural areas and Multi Purpose Civic Centres
This is a two-year project developed as a result of the cooperation between Oskarshamn and Hibiscus coast municipalities. The cooperation is in the field of municipal technical services and it is specifically intended to address telecommunications and data communications infrastructure in the rural areas. The intention is to introduce and improve on the use of…
