Inclusive leadership and governance

  • Farce of the Commons: Humor, Irony, and Subordination through a Camera’s Lens

    This report by Jesse Ribot is the second one to be published in ICLD’s Research Report series. Ribot argues convincingly that local democracy has a material basis and thus stresses the need for local governments to have both decision making powers and adequate funds to respond to local people’s needs. This report emerged from the…

  • Inclusion of persons with functional disorders in working life

    Inclusion of persons with functional disorders in working life

    This project focuses on the inclusion of all persons in working life. Due to a number of inhibiting factors many persons with disability cannot find work.

  • Human Resources – municipal exchange around good leadership and future recruitment

    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…

  • Student Democracy

    Student Democracy

    Emboreet: A school youth council for younger children is established, where the students have the courage to share their opinions regarding the school and the development of the village. Students in standard 1-4 should be a part of the council and have a grownup for support and help to arrange meetings. The school youth council…

  • The School Compass – Finalization of a municipal comparison

    The School Compass – Finalization of a municipal comparison

    The aim is to create, try and evaluate a method for comparison in the purpose to ease understanding about leadership and operation control during partnership projects between different countries and also focus on the management results concerning structural quality, process quality and result quality. The focus is on education. We have translated and transformed a…

  • Lika villkor och möjligheter genom ökad tillgänglighet

    Lika villkor och möjligheter genom ökad tillgänglighet

    The overall project objective is to contribute to ensure that all citizens have equal rights and opportunities to participate in a society that is accessible to everyone regardless of ability/capability. In about 10-15 years; there is a fully functioning organization to include an accessibility perspective, all employees have expertise on the issue and there is…

  • Management and implementation of a strategic plan

    Management and implementation of a strategic plan

    This is a three-year period project in the field of local administration and local democracy resulting from the cooperation from Hörby and Karasburg municipalities respectively. The project’s goal is to improve on the municipal governance and administration and in particular, the planning system in Karasburg municipality. The objective is to develop a detailed, timely and…

  • The many faces of the district

    The many faces of the district

    Overall Objective: To enhance and deepen knowledge about human rights, democracy, equality and interculturality. In order to achieve this, the project will develop forms and methods to increase the influence that young people, and in particular girls, regardless of social, ethnic or religious background, can exert on local democracy in relation to physical planning. Democratic…

  • Young Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

    Young Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development

    The vision of the partnership is to increase the possibilities and commitment among youth for local societal issues especially concerning sustainable development. The project objective is that both parties have a platform where children, youths and adults meet, exchange experiences and collaborate for a sustainable development of the local society where the creativity and commitment…

  • Women empowerment

    Women empowerment

    This is a one-year project in the field of local democracy and local administration, resulting from the partnership between Gotland and Jhansi municipalities, focusing on the issues of women empowerment. The project is aimed at addressing issues that influence or affect women empowerment in one way or another. These include: Issues of choice Power and…