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 13, 2025 | News, Research
As urbanisation accelerates across Africa, cities are under growing pressure to deliver essential infrastructure and public services – such as water, sanitation, drainage and electricity. Yet this expanding responsibility is unfolding in a context where sustainable...
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...
