South Africa
Ekerö och Cape Agulhas, Sydafrika
Inclusion through developing dialogue and cooperation between civil society and the municipality The aim of the project is to investigate how to develop dialogue and cooperation between civil society (non-governmental organisations or networks and citizens) and the respective municipalities. A focus area for the cooperation will be identified, such as developing methods for citizen dialogue,…
Programme structure
Inclusive Local Governance 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 during week 10, March, 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa.The Sweden Phase workshop will take place during…
Admission requirements
Invited countries Botswana, South Africa, Zambia Target group The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights-network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one local government official and one representative of a civil society organization. Only candidates nominated by the appropriate organization (municipality, city, region)…
Programme objectives
Inclusive Local Governance The main objective of this training programme is that participants develop new or improved practices and/or policies for inclusive public participation in their local governments. The programme welcomes applications from teams from the eight local governments in southern Africa within Human Rights network consisting of at a minimum: one elected politician; one…
Inclusive Local Governance
The training focuses on improving practices for inclusive public participation. The participants will work on dilemmas and implement a strategy to make their municipalities equitable, participatory, transparent and accountable. By strengthening the capacity of selected teams and by strengthening the networks available to them, the training will result in new or improved practices and/or policies…
Åmål and Bergrivier, South Africa
Culture as a path to development The municipalities of Åmål, Sweden, and Bergrivier, South Africa, have several common challenges. Our mutual focus is the high unemployment rate in our municipalities. Together we will focus our Inception phase and project planning around the target group ”unemployed young women and mothers with unfinished high-school education”. There are…
Jönköping and Stellenbosch, South Africa
Human Rights 2.0 For over a year, representatives from Jönköping municipality and Stellenbosch have met digitally to get to know each other and discuss the municipalities’ various challenges. Workshops have also been carried out in both Stellenbosch and Jönköping with representatives from the municipalities’ various administrations and operations. In Jönköping, it was about specific areas/places…
Älmhult and JB Marks, South Africa
Project: Strategic Planning of Green Open Spaces in Growing Cities Det föreslagna projektet bygger på en gemensam problemanalys där varken Älmhults kommun eller JB Marks kommun har en politiskt antagen grönstrukturplan. Det försvårar prioriteringar, allokering av ekonomiska medel samt hindrar en optimal användning av gröna ytor för att gynna miljön och samhället i stort. Därmed…
Åtta svenska kommuner i ny satsning på mänskliga rättigheter
Åtta svenska kommuner kommer att bli del av ICLD:s fyraåriga internationella projektnätverk Kommunala partnerskap för mänskliga rättigheter. Tillsammans med åtta partnerkommuner i Södra Afrika ska de utforma varsitt projekt som ska lyfta arbetet med mänskliga rättigheter och lokal demokrati. Den första september utlyste ICLD den nya satsningen Kommunala partnerskap för mänskliga rättigheter, som ska skapa…
Falun och Mogale, South Africa
Tillsammans med kommunen Mogale City i Sydafrika driver Falun ett projekt som ska utveckla nya sätt att inkludera och delaktiggöra barn och unga i kommunens verksamheter. Samarbetet sker i ett nätverk där åtta svenska kommuner arbetar parallellt med varsin partnerkommun från Södra Afrika på ett tema relaterat till mänskliga rättigheter, så som tillgänglighet, jämställdhet eller…
