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As Comunidades das Favelas do Rio Estão Criando Seus Próprios Painéis de Monitoramento da COVID19

May 26, 2020

In various favelas community journalists from various favelas are developing their own digital dashboards to provide more accurate data. The online newspaper Voz das Comunidades, for example, has created the Covid-19 Favelas dashboard, using public and community data to show the number of confirmed cases and deaths by community and their evolution over time.

Em várias favelas, jornalistas comunitários de várias favelas estão desenvolvendo seus próprios painéis digitais para fornecer dados mais precisos. O jornal online Voz das Comunidades, por exemplo, criou o painel Covid-19 Favelas, usando dados públicos e da comunidade para mostrar o número de casos confirmados e mortes por comunidade e sua evolução ao longo do tempo.


Filed Under: *DIGITAL ROUTES, *VISUAL / GRAPHIC ROUTES, COMMUNICATION ROUTES, COVID-19, Digital Mapping, Infographics, Online Databases, Portuguese/Português, Urban Development

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

May 6, 2019

Research carried out in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on cross-scalar risk communication and disaster risk governance reveals that, while there is considerable potential for communities to measure and communicate risk and to prioritise actions, there is little scope for them to influence disaster risk governance at this point in time. This is partly because, although disaster risk management (DRM) is devolved in Tanzania, it has not gone far enough to give adequate powers and financing to the lowest level of government at the sub-wards, which are at the frontline of managing the biggest everyday risks that people face. The effective communication of risks upwards from communities to governments, and of DRM policies and opportunities downwards to communities and across sectors is crucial to overcome these gaps. When communication is participatory and collaborative, there is scope for local city actors to reflect on the need for action to be joined across governance scales and to ensure communication plays a key role at and between all levels.

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Filed Under: Publications (published in print and/or online), Risk Communication, Risk Communication Highlights, Tanzania, Urban Development, Urban Highlights Tagged With: Participatory

Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan’s Big Cities: Evidence for Reform (IDS Policy Briefing 166, 2019)

March 9, 2019

Why did 11 million fewer women than men vote in Pakistan’s 2018 general elections? Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a much higher gender gap in each province’s largest metropolitan city compared to its remaining constituencies. This gap relates to men’s views about women’s vote and women’s knowledge of politics and the electoral process. Poor knowledge is, in turn, associated with a low interest in politics, which links to the failure of political parties to directly engage women and address their issues. These challenges can be addressed with better targeted voter education campaigns and a concerted effort by political parties to engage women directly and reduce their perception of being ‘politically invisible’.

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Filed Under: Advocacy, Gender, Pakistan, Participation, Participation Highlights, Publications (published in print and/or online), Urban Development, Urban Highlights Tagged With: Elections, Engagement, Women

Who knows best? Cities consult citizens for fresh ideas (TRF news article, February 2019)

February 13, 2019

This news article from the Thomson Reuters Foundation focuses on how gathering public input on government plans, often via digital tools, is a growing trend at municipal and national levels.

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Filed Under: Germany, Participation, Spain, Urban Development, Urban Highlights Tagged With: Digital Democracy

Innovation in the Horn, East and Central Africa (HECA): Perspectives from on-the-ground experiences (Oxfam Case Study, 2017)

February 6, 2019

Innovation involves applying information, imagination and initiative to get greater or different value from resources, and includes all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful processes or products.

These case studies showcase some of the innovative ideas that are being implemented by Oxfam in six countries: Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi.  Each project was selected for its potential to bring greater impact in the future. They include turning ‘excrement into income’ in urban slums in Kenya; giving citizens a voice through empowering them to use their mobile phones to report and share information on justice issues in Rwanda; and using a logistical ‘hub’ in Uganda to enhance service delivery and cost-effectiveness across a region.

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Filed Under: Burundi, Case Studies, Economic & Livelihoods, Governance, Innovations, Kenya, Rwanda, Social Mobilisation, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Urban Development Tagged With: Mobile Phones

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