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...
Mar 17, 2025 | Action research, Commentary, Research
School feeding programmes are a vital safety net for vulnerable children, providing them with healthy and nutritious meals that they might otherwise miss out on. Such initiatives are not new and have run in Kenya in different forms for decades; in Nairobi, for...
Jan 8, 2025 | Action research, Commentary, Research
By Adewumi Badiora, ACRC Action Research Lead, Lagos As Africa’s most populous city – with a current population of over 25 million – Lagos is not alone in having a public infrastructure shortfall. When it comes to streetlighting in particular, Lagos has an extreme...
Dec 19, 2024 | Action research, 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....
Nov 22, 2024 | Action research, News, Research
By Rosebella Apollo, ACRC research uptake officer ACRC held its second city managers meeting in Accra, Ghana from 11-15 November 2024. The five-day engagement convened a total of 15 delegates, including ACRC’s senior management team (SMT), city managers and...
