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Mapping urban reform successes: Introducing the ACRC urban reform database
What catalyses positive transformation? The ACRC urban reform database aims to spotlight the many recent success stories in African cities.
Webinar: Urban land in Africa – contested governance, value capture and prospects for reform
This webinar will explore some of the headline findings from the ACRC land and connectivity domain report, including how land governance arrangements “present” in different cities and the factors shaping land value.
African cities in the wake of Covid-19: Impacts and grassroots responses in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi
From 2021 to 2023, our action research in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi analysed the pandemic’s impacts and bottom-up responses by affiliates of Slum Dwellers International (SDI). Across the four cities, SDI affiliates led our data collection and policy uptake activities as part of the FCDO-funded Covid Collective programme.
Voice, agency and citizenship: The everyday politics of young people’s lives in the global South
Young people across the global South face much economic, social, political and environmental uncertainty that impacts their daily lives as well as their futures.
Five African cities selected for ACRC’s implementation phase
The African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) is commencing pilot action research projects in four African cities: Nairobi, Kenya; Harare, Zimbabwe; Maiduguri, Nigeria and Mogadishu, Somalia.
The value of tacit knowledge for urban reform coalitions: A conversation with Lalitha Kamath
Lalitha Kamath joins Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael for a conversation about the transformative potential of urban reform coalitions and the need to value lived experience.
Lagos: Drugs, firearms and youth unemployment are creating a lethal cocktail in Nigeria’s commercial capital
Lagos is the most populous city in Africa and a regional economic giant, having west Africa’s busiest seaport. It is the centre of commercial and economic activities in Nigeria.
Modelling urban expansion in Africa
According to UN estimates, the global urban population will increase by 2.5 billion over the next three decades, and 90% of this growth will occur in Africa and Asia.
Policy meets politics on the frontiers of world urbanisation
At a time when funding for urban infrastructure and the promotion of an overarching global goal – the hard-won SDG 11 – have catapulted cities up the international policy agenda, it’s hard to believe that urban issues could ever have been considered marginal.
New research: Driving systemic change in Africa’s informal settlements
ACRC has published new research into the challenges facing informal settlement residents in seven African cities: Accra, Ghana; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Harare, Zimbabwe; Kampala, Uganda; Lilongwe, Malawi; and Mogadishu, Somalia.
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