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Posted on: 14 October 2014
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A news resource from the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. Themes covered include: built environment, culture, economy, human rights, governance, infrastructure and sustainability.
Back to the future: 60 years of housing policy (DPU60 Dialogues in Development)
Posted on: 8 October 2014
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The latest installment of the DPU60 Dialogues in Development lecture series from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit focuses on housing in the global south. Presenters Jorge Fiori, Ruth McLeod (DPU), Patrick Wakely and Ronaldo Ramirez (DPU Associates and former DPU staff members) share their experiences and look to the future.
South-South cooperation: FUCVAM, Uruguay
Posted on: 4 August 2014
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This report presents the outcomes of our 2013 peer exchange to Uruguay to learn more about the World Habitat Award winning project, âSouth-South Cooperation: international transfer of the Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM) model of mutual aid housing cooperativesâ and to look at how their approach has successfully transferred to other countries. The impact of the project has been significant, directly and indirectly enabling hundreds of thousands of people across Latin America to have access to decent housing as well as other opportunities for income generation and social development.
OECD Development Centre
Posted on: 24 June 2014
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The Development Centre occupies a unique place within the OECD and in the international community. It is a forum where countries come to share their experience of economic and social development policies. The Centre contributes expert analysis to the development policy debate. The objective is to help decision makers find policy solutions to stimulate growth and improve living conditions in developing and emerging economies.
Tracking Africaâs progress in figures
Posted on: 19 June 2014
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A new report from the African Development Bank argues that while Africaâs cities are poised for a population explosion that will strain resources, infrastructure and services and widen income inequality, African leaders can manage the influx through inclusiveness, eco-friendly development and economic opportunity.
Relationships and resources: Environmental governance for peacebuilding and resilient livelihoods in Sudan
Posted on: 18 June 2014
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This report is the third in a series of reports addressing the development of new forms of environmental governance in Darfur and Sudan more broadly. This third report focuses on the process by which governance and peacebuilding may be promoted using natural resources as the basis for rebuilding key relationships and trust.
Making it happen: Oxfamâs proposals for the post-2015 Framework
Posted on: 17 June 2014
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Overcoming inequality and slowing global warming are imperative for achieving a world free from poverty and suffering, according to a new Oxfam report. The report comes ahead of the UNâs Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) meeting in September 2014. This paper puts forwards Oxfamâs proposals for what new goals and targets should be included and how they can be designed to bring about lasting change.
Vision of the future or criminal eyesore: What should Rio do with its favelas?
Posted on: 13 June 2014
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This article argues that Rioâs favelas are exciting as a remarkable surviving pattern of urban living. While a vision, sensitive and workable, is in place for their renewal, Rio is still searching for a way to implement it.
Street-led city-wide slum upgrading
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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This lecture proposes a fundamental shift in addressing the problems of slums, and suggests an approach that focuses on streets as the engine for urban transformation. The strategy brought forward by Claudio Acioly, from UN-Habitat, uses streets as the natural conduits that connect slums spatially and physically with the city and treats streets not only as physical entity for mobility and accessibility, through which water and sewerage pipes, power lines, and drainage systems are laid, but as the common good and the public domain where social, cultural and economic activities are articulated, reinforced and facilitated. A video and links to background material are included.
Growth with depth: 2014 African Transformation Report
Posted on: 5 June 2014
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The 2014 African Transformation Report draws on the African Center for Economic Transformationâs research program of country, sector, and thematic studies to look systematically at transformation as a broad framework for economic growth and development. The report introduces the African Transformation Index to help African policymakers see how their countries are transforming and where they stand in relation to their neighbors. Videos of speakers from the launch event, held on 28 May 2014, are available here.
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