Deadline: 15-May-23
ICLD is issuing a call for Local Governments Associations in Africa to conduct a training with local governments on practical tools for inclusive governance.
This is part of ICLD’s long-term goals at societal level, which are:
- Citizens experience increased opportunities for equality, participation, transparency and/or accountability from their local governments.
- Marginalized groups and young people have increased influence on the decisions that affect their lives.
- Contribute to an increased number of women in decision making bodies.
Objectives
- ICLD is opening a call for Associations of Local Governments to inspire and support local governments in testing and implementing policies and practices for local democracy using concrete and research-based tools. The expected results are:
- At least 20 local governments have learned one local democracy tool developed by ICLD and tested this tool in their localities.
Scope of this call
- Develop and conduct an interactive and creative training program for local governments based on at least one of the local democracy tools, practices and policies provided by ICLD and one tool or policy for democracy proposed by the proponent.
- Support at least 20 municipalities in the testing and implementation of one of the tools.
- Make a report of the results based on observations and interviews.
Funding Information
- The total budget for the proposals should not exceed 90.000 SEK.
- Time frame: The proposed activities should be conducted before 1st of December 2023, and the final report submitted by the 10th of December 2023.
List of Tools developed by ICLD that could be included in the training
- The training should include at least one of the following tools and one tool outside this list. The selected applicant for this call should take part in ICLD’s online training to learn about the ICLD tools before planning the training.
- Safety Audit for designing Inclusive and safe transport
- Objective: This tool is designed to help local governments to understand the way vulnerable groups experience public transport on a daily basis. This toolbox provides a guide for local government officials and politicians interested in designing and planning for inclusive, safe and sustainable public transport. As part of the training, the local governments are expected to conduct a safety audit and write a short action plan of concreate measurements that can be taken with the available resources to increase safeness based on the results of the audit.
- Child- and youth dialogue
- Objective: This tool and complementary learning cases are designed to help local governments to implement a child and youth participation in project planning and policy making. As part of the training, local governments are expected to apply the tool in their municipalities (holding a participatory meeting with youth and children based on the check list) and design an action plan with concreate measurements to take child and youth participation into account.
- Accessible cities for people with functional variations
- Objective: This tool comprising a video, policy brief and learning case provides a simple transferable methodology for assessing the usability of their city spaces for persons with functional variation. As part of the training, local governments are expected to make the assessment and, based on that, create a simple action plan that can be implemented with the available resources.
- Citizens’ Budget
- Objective: This toolbox provides support to local governments that are interested in creating a Citizens Budget to communicate the local budget in a way that every citizen can understand. It contains the basic steps in the process and inspiring examples, which fully equips the reader to start developing their own Citizen Budget. Local governments are expected to create their own citizens’ budget and share it with their citizens.
- Voluntary Local Reviews for the SDGs
- Objective: Voluntary Local Reviews is a tool for local governments to assess their progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and identify gaps and possible improvements in SDG implementation. It can be wide or narrow, and assess policies or focus on community perspectives. When finishing the training, local governments are expected to have produced a Voluntary Local Review in their locality.
- Municipal committees for Nature-Based Solutions
- Objective: This tool is a way to create pathways for dialogue aimed at finding environmentally friendly and inclusive urban planning solutions. Specifically, municipal committees aims to consolidate citizens’ engagement in the process of co-creating Nature-Based Solutions (which involve working with nature to address societal challenges, providing benefits for both humans and nature). As part of the training, local governments are expected to make an action plan for such a municipal committee.
- Safety Audit for designing Inclusive and safe transport
Countries prioritized: South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda.
Criteria
- The proposals should include:
- Overall aim of the training
- Description of the learning objectives of the program
- Description of the tools offered in the training (one should be listed by ICLD and one provided by the proponent)
- Description of the analysis of why this training is relevant to local governments in the selected country.
- Description of the target group for the training (what local governments would participate and how)
- Description of the selection criteria for local governments
- Description of the activities to be conducted.
- Expected outputs and outcomes.
- Time frame
- Budget.
For more information, visit ICLD.