Kampala’s Inspiring Journey Towards a Cycling-Friendly City

By |2024-01-04T13:37:52+01:00May 14th 2020|

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.

How Parking Meter Data Can Help Fight Corruption

By |2024-01-03T16:19:48+01:00August 28th 2019|

How can cities fight corruption? In Mexico, various cities have successfully worked with open data as an accountability tool that also improves service delivery. Ania Calderón and Eduardo Bohorquéz explain.

Saudi Arabia’s Smart Cities Program: Why Local Government is Imperative to Digital Transformation

By |2024-01-03T16:50:23+01:00August 8th 2019|

Cities can only become “smart” if they are responsive to their citizens – therefore, local governments need to take the lead in the digital transformation, says Bilal Saghir.

A Pulse for Cities: What Makes Open Contracting Essential to Modernizing City Governments

By |2024-01-03T16:53:15+01:00August 6th 2019|

Contracting is an unacknowledged superpower that cities have at their disposal to ensure high-quality service delivery to their citizens. Kathrin Frauscher explains how to go about it.

Islands of Integrity™: Replicating La Paz’s Successful Anti-corruption Experience

By |2024-01-03T16:54:21+01:00August 1st 2019|

How can cities effectively tackle corruption? Through a transformative process that involves those who are part of the problem, argue Ronald MacLean Abaroa and Ana Vasilache, who have developed their own successful anti-corruption methodology.

Leave No One Behind in Cities: How Can Knowledge Gaps About Marginalisation Be Filled?

By |2024-01-03T16:56:06+01:00July 30th 2019|

Street dwellers and the urban poor often don’t have access to their cities’ services. One reason behind this problem is the fact that they are not surveyed and consulted in data collection. How can this gap be filled?

Promoting Sustainable Urban Development Through Impact Innovation

By |2024-01-02T18:42:44+01:00January 10th 2019|

Human-centred impact innovation can be an extraordinary source of social and economic growth for cities and metropolitan areas in developing regions that drives growth of urban communities, supporting equitable and sustainable development and inclusive prosperity.

Policy Reform, not Evictions! The Case of Slum Urbanisation in Khartoum, Sudan

By |2024-01-02T16:00:54+01:00September 20th 2018|

A radical reform of Khartoum’s housing policy is required to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers. For this, we need to examine the socio-economic situation of the urban poor and of those who live in the city’s informal settlements.

Interview: The Power of Decentralisation

By |2024-01-02T15:15:15+01:00July 10th 2018|

Ghana is one of the frontrunner countries dedicated to implementing the SDGs. Highlighting the local perspective, one area of implementation is the revision of the country's National Urban Policy. URBANET spoke to Sylvanus K. Adzornu from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development about key drivers for successful implementation of SDGs.

Let’s talk about Urban Governance − Abidjan, Ivory Coast

By |2024-01-02T15:37:04+01:00July 2nd 2018|

There has been consent in international debates that implementing the SDGs requires approaching them from a local perspective. In this very personal account, Alexis Gueu talks about the challenges the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast is facing – and the urgent need for the municipality to develop urban governance structures to tackle these problems.

The Urban Spring of May 1st

By |2024-01-02T15:02:23+01:00May 3rd 2018|

Cities throughout the world face the challenge of how to create more – and decent – jobs. On Labour Day, Edmundo Werna makes the case for an extensive urban dialogue as a necessary condition for a proactive employment policy.

World Urban Forum will set stage for a busy 2018

By |2024-01-02T14:56:15+01:00January 30th 2018|

Around 20,000 urbanists are poised to gather in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the ninth session of the World Urban Forum. However, WUF9’s preparations for a quadrennial report will not be taking place in a vacuum. The conference comes only at the beginning of a busy year, writes Gregory Scruggs.

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