May 29, 2025 | Action research, News, Research
By Erika Garcia Fermin Funding the urgent development needs of a city like Accra requires additional sources of domestically generated revenues. Property taxation could prove to be an important source of financing to pay for the infrastructure and public service...
May 19, 2025 | Action research, News, Research
By Jerry Okal and Jack Makau Nairobi City County is taking a significant step forward in fostering inclusive development with its newly launched Refugee Integration and Community Building Strategy (NCRIS). The launch immediately provides refugees and other migrants...
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 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 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...
Mar 19, 2025 | Action research, News, Research
By Temilade Sesan, Taibat Lawanson and Ismail Ibraheem As the old saying goes: all politics is local. In Lagos and elsewhere, political dynamics manifest at various levels – the committee, the community, and the city – and often shape the degree of urban...