Social care and wellbeing
More Living-Active Age
In previous projects between the Cape Winelands District Municipality, South Africa and the Regional Council in Kalmar County has the importance of the local heritage for social cohesion and community development played an important role. The focus has been on young people and the local population. An obvious result of this has been the formation…
Östhammars kommun – City of Poti Sakrebulo, Georgia
Social inclusion – Developing the municipal service for elderly people and disabled children in Poti. The project focuses on the social area and concentrates upon education of staff at the “Poti rehabilitation centre” and the teachers. The aim of the project is to strengthen the children age 7-12 at the Poti rehabilitation centre and in…
Participation and voice implementation
Through the feasibility study ”Participation and voice” we have been able to identify the problem and basis for a collaborative project between the municipalities regarding democracy issues for young people. The feasibility study’s results show many similar challenges, but with different strengths of the partners. A clear deficiency and thereby focus of the project is…
Left-Behind Children Caring Support
The overall objective of the project is that local authorities will have a high level of competence about stay-at-home children and teenagers. The project will primarily be conducted at the “Stay-at-home children and teenagers caring centre” in Qiankou Village but the methods and tools developed during the project and the results will be transferable to…
Citizen dialogue Project
The Municipality of Alingsås and The Municipality of Chililabombwe in Zambia have decided to continue collaborating around the subject of Citizen Dialogue. The project addresses communication issues that are relevant in both municipalities: How do we find new ways and methods to improve our communication with the target group? Alingsås will work with the target…
Development of Citizen NGO Network
The main objective of the project Development of Citizen NGO network is to build a sustainable structure for planning, executing and financing projects between NGO:s in Vänersborg and Omaruru. This can be done by using the existing structures and contacts, the result of ten years of successful cooperation between the two towns. To succeed in…
Youth Voices for Influence and Participation II Dalarna/Hubei
The project’s goal is that Region Dalarna and Hubei Provincial Government involve youth perspective in the planning and decision-making process. The project work with youth counselors by increasing their competence and roll in the municipalities. The youth counselors then reach out to the student councils in order to test a method for Citizen’s Dialogue between…
Equal Opportunities
To work with/for civil rights is one of the basic principles for a democratic development of the society and is relevant irrespective of economic and cultural context. In the project we will work with issues that affect people with disabilities. We believe that both municipalities will be able to develop the democratic processes or/and the…
Tlokwe Inclusivity Disability Sector II
The two-year project aims to build capacity on local and regional level in order to start and develop daily activities for persons with mental and learning disability coming from the previously disadvantaged areas in Potchefstroom. Today there is a problem that young adults with disabilities after finishing school have nowhere to go and they end…
Youth Policy (based on the LUPP Survey)
After a project concerning youth, culture and social conditions in our both municipalities we felt a need to develop our results and use a more scientific approach. We heard about the LUPP survey, a local follow-up of youth policy in municipalities. It is developed in Sweden by the Swedish National Board of Youth Affairs and…
