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Unpacking the politics of urban land in African cities
The land and connectivity domain team held a webinar in May 2024, which explored key findings from the domain studies in six African cities.
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New research: Navigating Maiduguri’s urban systems and reform opportunities
ACRC has published a new paper synthesising research findings from political settlements, city system and urban development domain analyses of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
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New research: Uncovering Lilongwe’s urban development challenges
Lilongwe is the capital of Malawi and its largest city, home to about 1 million residents – three quarters of whom live in informal settlements. Newly published ACRC research throws light on the political dynamics and city systems underpinning urban development in Lilongwe.
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New research: How land intersects with connectivity in urban Africa
ACRC has published new research, exploring land and connectivity in six African cities: Accra (Ghana), Bukavu (DRC), Kampala (Uganda), Harare (Zimbabwe), Maiduguri (Nigeria) and Mogadishu (Somalia).
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Local impacts of global vaccine inequalities: Post-pandemic informal settlement experiences
This blog post outlines key findings from our recent Covid Collective research, which examined changing patterns and key lessons from the Covid-19 vaccine rollouts as they took place (or did not) in a selection of informal settlements across four African cities: Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Nairobi.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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