research - ACRC

ACRC Harare team engages city council in an uptake-related session

Jun 16, 2022 | News, Research

By George Masimba, head of programmes at Dialogue on Shelter ACRC’s research activities in Harare have gone up a gear following an interim workshop hosted in March this year and, more recently, an uptake meeting with City of Harare officials. Organised by Dialogue on...

Understanding Covid-19 responses: Political settlements and community initiatives

Jun 9, 2022 | Covid Collective, News, Research

Two new working papers, produced under the Covid Collective, explore and compare the politics and social and economic impacts of Covid-19 as it evolved in three East African capital cities – Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Mogadishu, Somalia – and its legacy in...

Reflections from Nairobi: ACRC’s first consortium-wide workshop

May 31, 2022 | News

By Hannah van Rooyen, African Cities Research Consortium digital communications officer It has been an exciting month for the African Cities Research Consortium, as members from across the consortium met together in person for the first time in Nairobi. Running from...

Grant awarded for land value study in Kigali

Apr 12, 2022 | News

We are pleased to announce that ACRC postdoc Matthew Sharp has been awarded a Young Researcher’s Grant by the International Growth Centre, worth £7,950. The project intends to explore the potential for land value capture and taxation through zoning in Kigali, Rwanda,...

Community mapping in Kenya improves state Covid-19 response

May 13, 2021 | Commentary, Covid Collective

By Professor Diana Mitlin, CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium This case study – originally published as part of the Covid Collective Research for Policy and Practice series – shows how an urban social movement was able to produce the knowledge that state...

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