South Africa
International Team Finance
The partnership between Växjö municipality and Tlokwe city councils resulted to the project named “International Team Finance” that is a one year project with the goal of improving on local democracy and local administration. The key areas of implementation focuses on: the budgetary process – compilation and management, principles for municipal economy, revenue collection, debt…
Environmental Management
A partnership was initiated after a visit by the Swedish delegation to South Africa in July 2005 and a three year project started up and was funded by SALA/IDA. Two of the three project years have been carried out. The project focuses on three areas that are important for the development and management of environmental…
LYPP (Local Youth Policy Program)
The overall project objective is to increase young people’s democratic influence. Today there is a democratic deficit of the two parties and they find it difficult to get young people to want to get involved in local democracy. To achieve this, it should be carried out a survey on site in HCM where young people…
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…
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…
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…
Public Relations Best Practice – Internal Communications
By changing the present approach of inadequate internal communication at the Tlokwe City Council to an ongoing, two-way symmetric approach in which the latest technology is utilized by qualified, well-resourced officials to reach strategic communication goals which includes well-informed and motivated officials. This should result in better service delivery, which in turn supports the democratic…
Non-Discrimination in Local Governance
The ”Non-Discrimination in Local Governance” project aims to reduce intolerance amongst local communities especially related to vulnerable groups (different races/gender/displaced/refugees/foreigners/sexual orientation/disabled etc) and strengthen integration of these communities for a more united society and non discriminating community. The project objective is to strengthen municipal knowledge, understanding and capacities on issues of discrimination in order to…
Bridging Nature, Heritage and Folkbildning
The project means a mentorship to guarantee the future for Historic Environment Education in the Cape Winelands with a National Centre and an office at the Worcester Museum. The mentorship involves capacity building with the support to form the organisation Bridging Ages South Africa, handle the props and historical costumes, draw up strategies etc. It…
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…
