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Once again representatives for Homa Bay County Government, and in this case representatives for the Department of Environment, visited Sweden. This time for participation in a program in Stockholm, Uppsala and Linköping meeting representatives for Waste Sweden, Swedish Water, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Tekniska Verken and experts on technology for water purification, as well as important peer learning workshops and meeting between member of the Steering Group. The program also provided opportunities for conversations with

Once again, representatives for the County Governments of Kisumu, Siaya, Busia, Migori and Homa Bay visited Västerbotten for participating in a program oriented towards governance for resilient and sustainable health systems - also taking climate change and environment into account when working towards this goal. The team from the Kenya Lake Victoria frontiers counties consisted of representatives from both the political wings and the technical wings of the county governments. The program included peer learning workshops, study and field visits

In this meeting Local Governments from Sweden, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and South Africa met for participation at an international training program on climate action. The program, carried out in Stockholm May 13th-17th 2024, included a broad variation of thematic discussions of relevance for the Local Governments that participated. The program also provided opportunities for all Local Governments to present, assess and discuss their own challenges and projects with different orientiations, however unified under the umbrella of Climat Action. I participated

Contracted by Center for Rural Medicine, Region Västerbotten, I work with the County Government of Homa Bay i Kenya in a project for youth health. A program in Västerbotten for both the political wing and the technical wing of the administration was organized for the partners to work with peer learning through different methods. The program was carried out April 19th-24th with activities in Lycksele Municipality, Umeå Municipality and Stockholm. This was the third meeting within this project that started

It has been stated earlier, that teaching is one of my fundamental tasks alongside with other ways of working for ”another development”. Once again (January-May, 2024) 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

In this travel, I participated in three programs starting with the first November 15th in Homa Bay County, Kenya and ending the third in Jinja, Uganda November 30th. In between, the second program was carried out in Kisumu, Kenya between November 21st-23rd. All programs were funded by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). During the first program, Lycksele Municipality visited Homa Bay County for finalizing the first project (2019-2023) on sustainable waste and water management focused on training, communication