May 12, 2025 | Action research, News, Research
Community knowledge The incorporation of community knowledge into action research projects is central to ACRC’s approach in the implementation phase. In this blog post, we look at how the insights, experiences and perspectives of waste workers in Nairobi are helping...
Apr 28, 2025 | News, Research
Across African cities, young people experience specific barriers to accessing livelihoods. This not only constrains their agency and ability to fulfil their aspirations but also creates environments in which they both perpetrate and experience violence. The form this...
Apr 23, 2025 | Action research, Commentary, News, Research
By Evans Banana, ACRC Harare uptake officer The impacts of climate change are already exacerbating the challenges posed by urbanisation in Africa. While the gap between formal and informal settlements – planned and unplanned, legal and illegal – is slowly narrowing,...
Apr 17, 2025 | News, Research
“Much has been made of the value of incremental construction in cities of the global South. But where political interests are powerful, and state planning and programming is weak, solutions also need to be innovative and evolutionary. Reform coalitions appear to...
Apr 11, 2025 | Action research, News, Research
By Hannah van Rooyen and Chris Jordan ACRC’s city managers, uptake officers and members of the senior management and uptake teams gathered in Nairobi last week for the third city managers meeting of the consortium’s implementation phase. Running from 1 to 4 April...
Apr 1, 2025 | News, Research
By Kate Lines Public spaces that mitigate flooding in Nairobi. Developing policies to support internally displaced people in Mogadishu. Community-led climate resilience planning in Lagos. Embracing urban informality in Zimbabwean policy dialogue. Empowering and...
