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How is climate change impacting Harare’s informal settlements?
A new video produced by the Know Your City TV team in Zimbabwe reflects on the research conducted by ACRC’s informal settlements research team in Harare.
Nurturing community resilience amid multiple crises: The story of informal settlements in Lilongwe
Informal settlements in the city of Lilongwe are adopting various coping strategies as they deal with the multiple crises affecting their communities. This blog post discusses some of these strategies.
Empowering young people in Lilongwe to be a voice for their communities
Recognising the critical role that media plays in promoting social and economic progress in low-income settlements, Lilongwe-based NGO, CCODE, has taken the initiative to train young people in media production.
Key principles for urban reform coalitions that work
The three-day conference featured notable academics and practitioners from the Global South and Global North with common interests in reform coalitions and urban development, who gave over 20 presentations, spread across six panels.
Strengthening service delivery processes in Kampala
Badru Bukenya and Buyana Kareem join Junior Alves Sebbanja for a conversation about service provision in Kampala, discussing the systemic and governance challenges underpinning it.
The value and worth of urban life: Reflections on liveability, normativity and exclusion
What makes urban life worth living? This blog post ponders this question in relation to the “What makes urban life worth living? (Re)evaluating the value of urban life” workshop held in Lisbon, Portugal in May 2023.
The Covid-19 pandemic through the eyes of informal settlement residents and workers in Kampala
This blog post draws on Covid Collective research conducted between 2020 and 2023 to delve into multidimensional effects and dynamics towards resilient recovery and sustainability within the informal sector in Kampala.
ACRC at the 2023 DSA Conference
Members of ACRC are convening two panels at this year’s Development Studies Association Conference, focusing on experiences of decoloniality in action and investigating the politics underpinning crises in African cities.
Urban reform coalitions in Kampala: A conversation with Shuaib Lwasa
Shuaib Lwasa, ACRC’s capacity strengthening lead and professor of urban resilience and global development at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, talks to Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael about building and sustaining reform coalitions, drawing on his experiences as founder of the Urban Action Lab.
Reflections from Dar es Salaam: ACRC’s second annual consortium-wide workshop
As ACRC’s foundation phase nears its end, around 120 consortium members gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the end of May 2023 for our second annual workshop.
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