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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

On April 7th-11th 2025, 40 representatives for Local Governments in Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Sweden met in Lusaka, Zambia within the framework of an international climate action network funded by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). All of the participants where engaged in different types of project, but with the clear objective of working for democratization at the local level based on ICLD Core Values (equity/inclusion, participation, transparency and accountability) and a rights-based approach (HRBA) even if

On the 6th of December I was invited by Umeå United Nation Association and the student organisation Nordplus for a talk about my work within international development cooperation. The venue for the event was Lindellhallen at Umeå University. I was honored to being invited to speak about my thoughts and experience of being a practitioner. I focused mostly on my work with partners in Kenya but covered other partnerships as well - not only partners in Kenya and Africa but