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  • ​What Children can teach us about democracy

    Democracy works best when all voices can be heard. No voice should be left behind. Yet, the voices of children and youth are far too often muted although they make up roughly 1/3 of the world’s population.

  • Peace in the peaks? Changes in water and land distribution in Colombia’s southern highlands during the Post-Peace Agreement phase

    Laura Betancur Alarcón received an ICLD fieldwork grant in 2018. Her thesis, ‘Peace in the peaks? Changes in water and land distribution in Colombia’s southern highlands during the Post-Peace Agreement phase’, aimed at understanding how grassroots initiatives are formed and adapted to deal with peace and sustainability challenges in the post-conflict period in Colombia.

  • ICLD is capacitating local leaders in Zimbabwe

    Since 2014, ICLD has run the advanced international training program “Capacitating local leaders in Zimbabwe”. For Gertrude Gumbo, former participant, now Councillor in Umguza Rural District Council in Zimbabwe, the programme has transformed both herself and her council.

  • The Elite Choice – ‘Unpacking the Elite’ in Mukungule Chiefdom, Zambia,

    ​Are you interested in local democracy, international development or human rights? Are you passionate about exploring how local communities can work together towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? Then doing your fieldwork in an ICLD partner country just might be the right thing for you. Read inspiring stories from students awarded a fieldwork grant and have already been abroad.

  • Constructing the city from below: grassroots organisations as urban planning agents

    Researcher of the ICLD-funded study ‘Organising grassroots initiatives for a more inclusive governance: constructing the city from below’, Maria Jose Zapata Campos, visited Kenya at the end of August to present the findings of the research. While there she also had the opportunity to present the report to the City Manager in Kisumu and officers at the County and discuss the findings with them.

  • ​Kapacitetsbyggande på lokal nivå i Zimbabwe

    ICLD driver Internationella Utbildningsprogram, ITP, som är längre, kvalificerade utbildningsinsatser som vänder sig till nyckelpersoner på lokal nivå i Sidas samarbetsländer, till exempel lokala politiker och tjänstepersoner. Här berättar Anne Scheffer Leander, programhandläggare på ICLD, några av sina upplevelser från det senaste utbildningstillfället i Zimbabwe.

  • Almedalen - för det öppna samtalet och fria ordet

    - Det känns viktigt att slå ett slag för Almedalen som funktion för det öppna samtalet och fria ordet - ett av demokratins fundament som alltid bör försvaras, säger Johan Lilja generalsekreterare för Internationell Centrum för Lokal Demokrati.

  • Gender equality does not fall from the sky

    Blog by Mawa Karambiri, Doctoral candidate, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland and one of the participants at ICLD´s Local Democracy Academy in Umeå 10-14th of June.
    "Umeå, a city that I heard about but never get the chance to visit until now. As part of the first Local Democracy Academy organized by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, I attended a

  • How to get citizens more engaged in Local Politics?

    Author: Rebecca Abers, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Brasília attending ICLD Local Democracy Academy in Umeå 10-14th of June and have lectures under the thematic stream: "Social accountability and alternative forms of participation in local democracy" .
    All throughout the world, politics is increasingly under attack. Research has shown that voters in many countries are

  • Can we address Global Challenges with urban Creativity and Inclusive Cities?

     Author: Liza Cirolia, Researcher,Centre for African Cities attending ICLD Local Democracy Academy in Umeå 10-14th of June and have lectures under the thematic stream "Urban creativity and inclusive cities".
    The scale and nature of the growth of cities in the global south is both daunting and exciting. After decades of (poorly informed) efforts to stem migration to cities, the global policy tid

  • Local Governments: between multiculturalism and ethnic nationalism

    This blog is written by Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University and one of the professors attending ICLD Local Democracy Academy in Umeå 10-14th of June and will discuss the role of Local Governments to address migration under the theme of “Global migration: rebel cities and communities in search of inclusion”.

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