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October 6th-12th, representatives for Region Västerbotten and The City of Umeå, participated in a program in Kisumu County, Kenya that also included field visits to other counties in the Lake Victoria basin area. The program included introductory meetings with executives from the county governments of Kisumu, Siaya, Homa Bay, Busia and Migori, field visits relevant for the project, a partner engagement meeting in Kisumu, steering group meeting and a meeting at the Swedish embassy in Nairobi, hosted by the Swedish

October 1st-5th, Region Västerbotten participated in a program for youth health in Homa Bay County, Kenya. The host, department of health in the county government of Homa Bay, created a very good and inspiring program for the team from Region Västerbotten. Some members of the team was there for the first time, and some members had been there many times before. The project is working with capacity building at the institutional level, and towards goals that is agreed by the

Once again I am teaching students at the bachelor level at the Department of Politicial Science, Umeå University. The students are studying at the Program for International Crisis- and Conflict Management. It is an honour to be a teacher, employed as a guest lecturer, for students doing their first course at the program and for many, their first course at an university. The students will be exposed to basic concepts and models as well as opportunities to discuss different types

August 14th-19th 2023, a team representing Machakos County Government, Kenya visited Robertsfors Municipality, Sweden for working together on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The partners have worked together since 2006 in various projects in three different phases, and how now been granted support for adressing climate change in Robertsfors Municipality and Machakos County. The project is funded by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD), and will run from 2023 until 2025. The partners are also invited by ICLD to

As one of the representatives for Center for Rural Medicine, Region Västerbotten, Sweden, I was happy to host representatives for Kenya Lake Victoria frontiers counties in The County of Västerbotten June 11th-16th. The team from the kenyan counties visited Sweden in the framework of a project named "Partnership and Governance for Health and Resilience in Relation to Climate Change and Environment in Kisumu County and Other Counties Alongside Lake Victoria". The project is funded by Swedish International Centre for Local

During April 17th-21st and May 1st-5th, representatives from County Government departments in Homa Bay County, Kenya have visited Västerbotten. The first delegation visited Lycksele Municipality for a comprehensive program on sustainable waste and water management. The partners - Homa Bay County and Lycksele Municipality - will finalize one project in the end 2023, and has started another just recently after signing the agreement with the funder Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). The second delegation visited Storuman Municipality, where