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Rural-urban partnerships: An integrated approach to economic development
Posted on: 29 October 2013
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This report provides a framework to understand the changing relationships between urban and rural areas. Specifically, it documents the characteristics of these partnerships and the factors that can hinder as well as enable rural-urban co-operation.
Low carbon resilient development in the least developed countries: Emerging issues and areas of research
Posted on: 29 October 2013
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Low-carbon resilience has become the new buzzword in climate change policy; it is an agenda that tackles reducing carbon emissions (climate change mitigation) while simultaneously building climate resilience (climate change adaptation) and supporting development in a supposed win-win policy agenda. This approach is linked to green growth policies, low carbon development and low emission development strategies and is also supported by negotiations at the UNFCCC that are seeking to find linkages between these agendas. Although least developed countries (LDCs) are responsible for less than five per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions; nine of them have developed plans to bring together these three issues into one single agenda. Our research has found, however, that the rhetoric is greater than the actions and a learning-by-doing approach is necessary to generate robust evidence on where to find, and how to support, ‘win-wins’.
Kigali unveils incentives for real estate developers
Posted on: 18 October 2013
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The City of Kigali has unveiled plans to eradicate slums from the city as well as build more affordable houses for low-income earners. According to the city, about 34,000 units will be constructed by different developers over a 10-year period. Lilian Mupende, the city’s director of urban planning and the One-Stop Centre, explains how they will achieve these not-so-easy tasks.
The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030
Posted on: 16 October 2013
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This report from the Overseas Development Institute examines the relationship between disasters and poverty. It maps where poor people are likely to live by 2030 and it develops a range of scenarios aimed at identifying potential patterns of vulnerability to extreme weather and earthquakes. The report considers how threats may change, which countries face the greatest risk and the role that disaster risk management plays.
The 2013 Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness in Africa: promises and performances
Posted on: 16 October 2013
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The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness is an exercise in mutual accountability undertaken jointly by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the OECD following a request of NEPAD Heads of State and Government in 2003. Its purpose is to assess what has been done by Africa and its development partners to deliver commitments in relation to development in Africa, what results have been achieved, and what the key future priorities are.
Who will plan Africa’s cities?
Posted on: 11 October 2013
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Africa’s cities are growing, and changing, rapidly. Without appropriate planning, they will become increasingly chaotic, inefficient and unsustainable. In many countries, planning legislation dates back to the colonial era, and is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary urban problems. A shortage of urban planning and management professionals trained to respond to urban complexity with progressive pro-poor approaches exacerbates urban dysfunction. As planning educators seek to train students for employment within the existing system, the urban and rural planning curricula of many planning schools are as outdated as planning legislation. Some African countries have no planning school. The authors argue that reform and revitalisation of planning education, and legislation, could contribute significantly to sustainable and more equitable urban development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Basic services for all in an urbanizing world
Posted on: 10 October 2013
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The third report of the Global Observatory of Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) details the provision of public local services and is in-line with the UCLG objective to present every three years a report on the state of local and regional democracy and of decentralisation throughout the world. The report examines the basic services that are essential to quality of life and human dignity and highlights a worrying deterioration in access to basic services in cities in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It also explores the challenges faced by local authorities in ensuring universal access to basic services to the world’s billion urban slum-dwellers, as well as to the 5 billion people who will inhabit the world’s cities within the next thirty years at a time when we are unable to meet the needs of the almost one million inhabitants in precarious neighbourhoods that have limited access to these services.
Assessing the quality of evidence
Posted on: 9 October 2013
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Eldis, the online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues, has published a guide on assessing the quality of evidence. Evidence-based and evidence-informed policy have become commonplace in the design and delivery of development policies and programmes. The guide brings together a range of resources that provide guidance on the different methods and methodologies used to assess the quality and strength of evidence.
Our future in cities
Posted on: 27 September 2013
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This page features videos of nine talks on the future of cities, including what squatter cities can teach us, and greening the ghetto.
Rwanda: Pioneering steps towards a climate resilient green economy
Posted on: 25 September 2013
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The September 2013 issue of Climate & Development Outlook, produced by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), summarises CDKN’s partnership work with Rwanda to date, highlighting key achievements and signposting further information.
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