Urban Resources & News

Communicating Risk from the Frontline: projecting community voices into disaster risk management policies across scales (Urban Africa Risk Knowledge policy brief, 2018)

Research carried out in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on cross-scalar risk communication and disaster risk governance reveals that, while there ...
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Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform (IDS Policy Briefing 166, 2019)

Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is ...
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Who knows best? Cities consult citizens for fresh ideas (TRF news article, February 2019)

This news article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation focuses on how gathering public input on government plans, often via digital ...
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Innovation in the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA): Perspectives from on-the-ground experiences (Oxfam Case Study, 2017)

Innovation involves applying information, imagination and initiative to get greater or different value from resources, and includes all processes by ...
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Wumen Bagung – Communication for Development and Social Change Bulletin: “Whose Theory Counts?” (RMIT, 2018)

This edition of Wumen Bagung explores four key themes, each focused on how communication outcomes are influenced by the role ...
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Adolescent Girls Creating Safer Cities: Harnessing the Potential of Communication for Development (UN-Habitat, 2012)

Safer cities strive to create public spaces that are open and accessible to everyone, without exception. Most cities, however, are not totally safe ...
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“Voice of the voiceless”: Learning from SORADI’s project to strengthen accountability in Hargeisa (IAAAP Paper, 2018)

Citizens’ ability to seek accountability from Hargeisa Local Council is highly constrained, SORADI’s evidence-based, coalition-building model provides some clues as ...
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C4D Network attend Roundtable with Maimunah Mohd Sharif (Executive Director, UN-Habitat)

Jackie Davies, C4D Network, attended the Oxford Urbanists, ThinkCity, and the Oxford Sustainable Urban Development Programme Roundtable event with Maimunah ...
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Wellbeing and Protracted Urban Displacement: Refugees and Hosts in Jordan and Lebanon (IDS Report, 2018)

The war in Syria, now in its eighth year, has led to the mass exodus of the Syrian people. Lebanon ...
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Urban Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Social and Behavior Change Communication Implementation Kit (Health Communication Capacity Collaborative [HC3], 2016)

The purpose of the Urban Adolescent Social and Behavior Change Communication Implementation Kit (I-Kit) is to provide a selection of ...
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Community-driven Data Collection in Informal Settlements (IIED Brief, 2017)

Around a billion urban dwellers in the global South live in informal settlements. Most of these lack basic infrastructure (including ...
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ICT, Urban Governance and Youth (UN HABITAT Report, 2015)

The ICT, Urban Governance and Youth report is the fourth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series. The report provides a conceptual ...
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