Achievements: Education for Peace, Human Rights and Sustainability

As founders of this organization we acknowledge the importance of education, listening, collaboration and learning when working for sustainable global development in all its dimensions. This acknowledgement is also well stated in the Sustainable Development Goals (for example Goal No.4), The UNESCO Roadmap for Implementing the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (GAP) and in UN conventions on Human Rights. This is a list of achievements in the area of education in different organizations by our Chair Ingvar

Achievements: Education and Training for Gender Equality

Another Development Foundation is working from the basis of an integrated gender perspective, both internally in the organization and externally in projects and with partners. One of the founders - Peter Söderström - has skills and experience as an educator, trainer and lecturer been requested in the field of gender equality, and specifically men's violence against women and children, with a critical perspective on masculinity and focus on gender transformative violence prevention. Down below is examples of the missions Peter

Achievements: Education for Sustainable Development – Seminars and Workshops

Another Development Foundation will promote education for sustainable development (ESD) i various ways. Both Ira Sundberg and Ingvar Rönnbäck have extensive experience in this field. Below is a list of achievements by Ira Sundberg who has worked with training, education and learning i many settings. Her profile is psychosocial and social sustainability and how that is related to the overall challenge of sustainable development - a discourse which is very well known for her. In this photo Ira Sundberg is

Achievements: Leadership, Management and Organisational Development

Another Development Foundation will work with various organisations, their leaders and executives. Ira Sundberg has been active in various boards and projects working working with organisational development as well as project management. In each one of these organisations and projects, the work has been aimed at sustainable development. This experience by Ira Sundberg is very important when working with organisational development of Another Development Foundation. This is a list of organisations and projects in which Ira Sundberg have been active:

Achievements: Leadership, Management and Institutional Development

Another Development Foundation is a think tank and meeting point for people and organizations who want to promote peace, freedom from violence, human rights, gender equality and sustainability. In order for this development to happen, withouth neclecting the need for mobilization of civil society locally, nationally and transnationally, questions of leadership, managment and institutional development cannot be avoided. Below, a list of assignments, roles and achievements by our Chair Ingvar Rönnbäck are described. Key achievements have been the creation of

Achievements: Personal Sustainability, Leadership and Development

Another Development Foundation has an holistic approach on sustainable development including the need for working with personal, psychosocial, social sustainability as well as on leadership. If global sustainability will be possible it is important to work with organisational development, institutions, collaboration locally, nationally, regionally and internationally as well as mobilizing global civil society and with resistance. However, the need for working with the individual, with groups and on leadership must not be forgotten. Ira Sundberg has experience of this kind

Collaboration on Gender Based Violence with Partners in Africa

Another Development Foundation is happy to announce that we have started a collaboration on gender based violence and for freedom from violence with gender- and mediaorganizations in five african countries; Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Zambia! The collaboration will be managed by ADEP - Another Development Perspective Ltd and Cooperation Arena for Sustainable Development in Africa (CASDA) with the foundation as the key partner. The project is funded by Swedish Institute, and was launched October 1st-5th when all participants met

Welcome to Another Development Foundation!

Another Development Foundation is a new independent and non-profit think tank with base in The City of Umeå for people, places and the planet promoting peace by peaceful means, freedom from violence, human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and climate justice. Ingvar Rönnbäck, chair of the board (in the right) and the other founders - Ira Sundberg and Peter Söderström - greet visitors of this webpage a warm welcome!

Will Steffen

January 31st 2023, we recieved information about the death of our friend Will Steffen, who died in Canberra aged 75. This is a tremendous loss for us, and we send our condolensces to Will´s family. He will be with us in our future work as a source of insipration, and we will remember him as dear friend of us. This is how we have written about him at our homepage when he was an active advisor to Another Development Foundation: