SISTER CITIES & TOWNS

The Municipality of Swakopmund has in recent years entered into twinning agreements with a number of towns and cities around the globe in order to share expertise on technology, culture, tourism, local economic development, waste management, town planning, service delivery, human resources development and information on other issues of common interest.

Twinning agreements are being considered for Tainjin and Yiwu (China), Florianopolis (Brazil) and most recently with Malmö (Sweden) whilst cooperation agreements has been entered with local towns such as Walvis Bay and Okakarara.

Malmö is the third largest city of Sweden, situated in the south of Sweden with 277 000 inhabitants of which 47% are youth.  Malmö has for the past 15 years undergone transition from being an industrial city to a city of knowledge where older industries have been replaced by investments in new technology and training programmes of high caliber. 

During June 2008 a delegation from Malmö paid a visit to Swakopmund to cement cooperation ties and a reciprocal visit is being arranged by the Municipality of Swakopmund to visit Malmö before the end of this year.

The resort town of Sharm El Sheik in Egypt with whom the Municipality of Swakopmund has signed a twinning agreement recently received extensive media coverage in view of the African Union (AU) summit held there in June 2008.