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On May 8th, I arrived back home in Umeå after participating in a program on youth inclusion in the City of Umeå, Sweden, Tromsø Municipality and Harstad Municipality, Norway and Cape Agulhas Municipality, South Africa. It was rewarding experience and opportunity to learn how municipalities in Sweden, Norway and South Africa are working for youth inclusion based on contextual analysis and conditions, however with the same aim of improving the work from a rights-based perspective. I was contracted as consultant

It has been stated earlier, that teaching is one of my fundamental tasks alongside with other ways of working for ”another development”. Once again (March-May, 2026) I will teach at the course ”Media, Communication and Sustainable Development” – a course organized by the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umeå University. I will do that together with a number of teachers and experts on media, communication and journalism. My role in this course is to provide the students with

I am honored for the request to tell my story about my international work in the magazine Utpost, published by Umeå Association of International Affairs. The magazine was published January 2026 and is available to read at: https://upfu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pdf-digital-utpost-ht2025-rgb.pdf The article provide the readers with a story about some of the ongoing international projects that I have been involved in for some years, but also a story about how it all started and of what have motivated me. The publishers decided

On May 12th-16th 2025 a team from Cape Agulhas Municipality, South Africa visited the City of Umeå for working together on how to improve their work on youth inclusion. This was the first visit for team Cape Agulhas in Umeå. They were exposed to a number of peer learning study and site visits in Umeå as well as peer learning workshops in which the parties could discuss how they worked with youth inclusion and how they want to improve their

From May 1st 2025, I will be employed as an international project manager by the Centre for Rural Medicine, Region Västerbotten. This means that I will re-organize the work done from the basis of ADEP. Right now I am occupied with the work within a number of international projects. I will update on what will happen within my company when I have time. However, I do know that my company will be active, but in a way that is adapted

On April 23rd-25th a number of organizations gathered in Nairobi, Kenya for a workshop on partnership and governance for health and resilience in relation to climate change and environment. The organizations and people who participated at the workshop were: representatives for the County Governments of Kisumu, Siaya, Busia, Migori and Homa Bay, representatives Region Västerbotten and the City of Umeå, representatives for Maseno University, Jaramogi University for Science and Technology, Tom Mboya University, Umeå University, Stockholm Environment University, representatives for