Oct 1, 2025 | Action research, Kampala, News, Research
By Teddy Kisembo (in-city urban development lead), and reflections from Ggaba action research team Ggaba Market is located in Ggaba parish, in Makindye division, along the shoreline of Lake Victoria. The market hosts over 500 vendors purveying fresh and cooked food...
Sep 1, 2025 | Action research, Kampala, News, Research
By Nansozi K Muwanga, action research project lead Uganda is one of the youngest countries in the world, with over 70% of its population under the age of 30. In the lead-up to the 2021 elections, it was estimated that two-thirds of registered voters were below 30,...
Aug 28, 2025 | Accra, Bukavu, Harare, Kampala, Maiduguri, Mogadishu, News, Research
By Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield, co-lead of ACRC’s land and connectivity domain research The urgency of developing more effective mechanisms to capture rising land values for urban infrastructure and services is now widely acknowledged. It is also accepted...
Feb 13, 2025 | Kampala, News, Research
A new report by Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Judith Mbabazi and Henrik Ernstson draws on ACRC’s holistic conceptual framework components – politics, systems and domains – to analyse urban development in Kampala. Kampala is Uganda’s capital city, serving as its major...
Dec 19, 2024 | Action research, Kampala, News, Research
By Teddy Kisembo, Paul Isolo Mukwaya, Badru Bukenya and Hafisa Namuli ACRC’s Kampala city team recently embarked on a reflective journey, dissecting the theory of change (ToC) and conceptual framework (CF) that underpin ACRC’s transformative work in African cities....
Oct 21, 2024 | Addis Ababa, Commentary, Freetown, Kampala, Maiduguri, Mogadishu, Research
By 2050, over half of Africa’s population will be under 25. While African cities offer the potential for jobs and innovation, they also face a growing crisis: the mental wellbeing of their young people. Drawing on ACRC’s youth and capability development research...
