80 resultat för ”Covid-19”

  • ICLD Årsredovisning 2025

    ICLD:s årsredovisning för 2025 innehåller en beskrivning av verksamheten och vad som genomförts och uppnåtts under året. Den första delen lyfter fram delar av verksamheten och resultat under 2025 varvat med bilder och siffror. Del två är förvaltningsberättelsen som utförligt beskriver verksamheten. Här ingår även resultaträkning och revisionsberättelsen. Önskar du ett tryckt exemplar, skicka din…

  • Towards a Just Transition in Plastic Governance: Grassroots Waste Pickers, Participatory Spaces, and Environmental Democracy in Kenya

    This study draws on the case of Mombasa county, Kenya, to examine the participatory spaces through which grassroots waste pickers engage local government and the implications for a just transition in plastic governance. Using environmental democracy and grassroots innovation frameworks, the analysis extends Gaventa’s typology of invited and created spaces by introducing co-created spaces emerging…

  • Using Digital Tools to Improve ServiceDelivery: Pemba Town Council, Zambia

    Digital transformation has emerged as a new way of doing business using technology. Many national governments have adopted the use of digital tools, but its adoption by local governments, particularly in developing countries, presents some challenges. This research was aimed at helping Pemba Town Council in Zambia to explore how it can improve service delivery…

  • Human Rights-Based Approach for local goverments

    Why, What and How? The purpose of this introduction to Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA) is to give you, as a local government employee or elected local government politician, an understanding of why local governments should apply HRBA, what HRBA is, and how HRBA is used by local governments in everyday policy and practice. This introduction…

  • The Citizen Report Card (CRC) survey in Maicao, Colombia, was conducted to assess local democracy and LGBTIQ+ liason office’s services. The survey is part of ICLD’s Municipal Partnership Programme (MPP), which partners Maicao with Upplands-Bro in Sweden to strengthen the rights of LGBTIQ+ individuals. Through this survey, citizens in Maicao have the opportunity to provide…

  • Designing for Inclusion

    A Municipal Accessibility Toolbox Editors: Felicia Wede and Irena Lakobrija Delić This toolbox is based on the Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design for Cities and Municipalities, developed by Vračar Municipality in partnership with Borås City, Sweden. It translates these guidelines into practical support for municipalities to plan and deliver accessible services, emphasising the need…

  • How local goverments can accelerate EU intergration

    Lessons from Ukrainian-Swedish municipal partnerships The ICLD Network for Democratic Resilience brings together 30 Swedish and Ukrainian municipalities working to strengthen democratic institutions, inclusive governance, and local resilience in times of crisis and war. This policy brief draws on case studies from 13 partnerships (2022–2026), interviews, and research, showing how peer-to-peer cooperation supports EU integration…

  • Developing Youth Councils

    This toolbox has been compiled to help local government officials and politicians who want to start, improve, and maintain their own youth councils. It provides both inspiration and a step-by-step guide for setting up and managing these councils. It also explores the questions and challenges youth councils often face and shares some of the lessons…

  • Emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic can create tensions between national and local government when these are attempting to apply strategies to manage an urgent or major situation. This policy brief highlights the role of cities during the pandemic in terms of providing a link among citizens, and to the national government. Coordinating and connecting…

  • Closing or keeping open public schools during COVID-19 in Serbia: finding the middle way

    This policy brief offers a practical, feasible action plan for how to preserve and enhance the provision of public education in deprived suburban neighbourhoods during a pandemic. Based on critical insights collected in the past year at the urban periphery of Belgrade (Serbia), the brief suggests a shift in perceiving public schools in deprived suburban…