Young Cities

Obstructed Paths into Adulthood: Challenging the Hindrances to Young People’s Lives in African Cities

By |2024-08-20T12:29:10+02:00August 20th 2024|Gender and Inequalities|

In African cities, young people struggle with limited opportunities and systemic failures. How can cities overcome these barriers to secure their future? By Elizabeth Dessie

Just Transition

Collective Action for Flood Resilience: How Blue-Green Infrastructure Leads to New Solutions in Kampala

By |2024-01-05T12:49:38+01:00January 10th 2023|Resilient Cities and Climate, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Effective flood control can only be met with a holistic approach. Peter Mwambu and Simon Akena invite us to Kampala in Uganda and discuss lessons learned from integrating Blue-Green Infrastructure.

To Advance Access to Education, Communities Need to Focus on Financial Equity and Literacy

By |2024-01-04T15:10:44+01:00November 25th 2021|Finance, Gender and Inequalities|

How to improve access to education in small municipalities? Scott Frank and Ronald Kibirige from the InteRoots Initiative present a community-led example from Kasasa, Uganda.

Infrastructure Transparency in Metropolitan Kampala

By |2024-01-04T14:58:57+01:00September 9th 2021|Good Governance, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Efforts for infrastructure development will be in vain if the public is not involved in the process. Olive Kabatwairwe with meaningful insights and best practices from Uganda.

It’s Time to Change the Housing Conversation

By |2024-01-04T14:04:27+01:00October 6th 2020|Housing and Construction, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Safe, affordable housing is not an end in itself but should be interwoven with other interventions to improve access to related services and benefits. As the pandemic exacerbates shortcomings in housing programmes around the world, Vidhee Garg on the need to re-think housing and to look beyond its purely quantitative aspects.

Global Partnerships for City-Scale Challenges: the Karlsruhe-Kampala Climate Partnership

By |2024-01-04T13:47:25+01:00August 18th 2020|Good Governance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Evolving cross-border cooperation shows that trans-boundary action can help individual cities address local challenges. Emana Nsikan-George from Climate Alliance highlights the development of decentralised municipal cooperation and provides a promising example from Uganda and Germany.

Kampala’s Inspiring Journey Towards a Cycling-Friendly City

By |2024-01-04T13:37:52+01:00May 14th 2020|Good Governance, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Uganda’s capital leads the way towards an increasingly popular mode of transportation: biking. In times of urbanisation, recent policies indicate a shift towards greater sustainability. Amanda Ngabirano, Vice President of the World Cycling Alliance, highlights the developments in the city of seven hills.

The Future is Community-led: How People Are Improving Their Neighbourhoods Across Africa

By |2024-01-03T15:01:43+01:00May 16th 2019|Housing and Construction, Integrated Planning|

All across Africa, the most rapidly urbanising continent, locals are taking action to improve their neighbourhoods and get access to adequate housing and services. Leading up the UN Habitat Assembly, URBANET presents examples from Senegal, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

Can Urban Planning Serve Local Economic Development?

By |2024-01-02T18:42:23+01:00January 15th 2019|Finance, Integrated Planning|

In Kampala, Uganda, the immensely fast rate of urbanisation makes it hard for urban planners to keep up with developments. Madina Guloba argues that this makes it more important than ever for sustainable urban planning to keep local economic development (LED) approaches in mind.

Making a world without HIV by 2030 possible: Mayors and local governments as change agents

By |2023-12-19T15:14:37+01:00September 26th 2017|Good Governance|

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major health crisis around the world, especially in cities. As part of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Alliance of Mayors and Municipal Leaders on HIV/AIDS in Africa has vouched to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Titus James Twesige explains the situation in Uganda and why mayors can drive positive change.

Where there’s a will there’s a way: Vertical Partnerships for a Sustainable Future

By |2023-12-19T15:02:00+01:00April 21st 2017|Good Governance|

The international community has come a long way when it comes to sustainable development. The next step is to continue the partnerships that helped create these frameworks and bring them down to the level of implementation.

“Nobody plans for slums” – An interview with SDI’s Sarah Nandudu

By |2023-12-19T14:44:37+01:00November 17th 2016|Gender and Inequalities, Integrated Planning|

Slums and informal settlements are not just a matter of housing quality, they also affect the quality of life that people have, their health and their chances at a good education. At the Habitat III conference in Quito, URBANET talked to Sarah Nandudu, vice-chairperson of the National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda, about community building in slums, the responsibility of the New Urban Agenda, and what formal settlements can still learn from informal ones.

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