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August 24th 2024 the gender based violence recovery center in Machakos, Kenya was officially opened. The center was developed within the framework of the project "Action for Gender Equality" - a project that was a collaboration between Robertsfors Municipality, Sweden and Machakos County Government, Kenya. The project was funded by Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) and was carried out during 2017-2021. The project was delayed due to the Corona pandemic, but was finalized with a dissemination conference in

Once again, representatives for the County Governments of Kisumu, Siaya, Busia, Migori, Homa Bay, Region Västerbotten and the City of Umeå gathered for work in their joint project; Partnership and Governance for Health and Resilience in Relation to Climate Change and Environment in the Kenyan Lake Victoria front counties. This time in Kisumu for a workshop in between other programs in Kenya in which Region Västerbotten are partners. The goals for the workshop were:  To provide an overview on what

Once again me and a team from Region Västerbotten, Sweden participated in a program on youth health, especially what is described as the "tripple threat" - gender based violence (GBV), teenage pregnancies and HIV/AIDS in a destructive combination. The partnership also adress mental health among youth as societal challenge. In this program that was carried out September 16th-20th 2024 in Homa Bay County two teams from Region Västerbotten participated in the program. The first team contained representatives for management and

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