Urban governance
The need for strong and robust development programming to address the many challenges that face growing urban contexts. Includes water and sanitation, crime and security, housing and urban planning.
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- Resilience of outdoor spaces in an era of climate change: the problem of developing countries
- T. Hatuka; H. Saaroni / Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2013
- This paper suggests a framework for integrating climate change into the design of public spaces in developing countries. The aim is to explain the urgent need for public-space design codes in developing countries that factor in global...
- Planning Dhaka as a Global City: A Critical Discourse
- A Kalam 2009
- Cities and city regions are practically observed to be the engines of economic growth in the age of globalization. Cities and their regions thus diversely play important roles in national and international contexts. City provides oppo...
- Addressing corruption in the infrastructure sector
- S. Cavill; M. Sohail / Water Engineering and Development Centre, 2007
- This document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption ...
- Developing the Urban Governance Index
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
- UN-HABITAT’s Global Campaign on Urban Governance supports the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and contributes to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance. The Urban Governance Index (UGI) has been develo...
- Globalisation and the impact of macrodynamics on water commodification
- P. Bond / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal, 2008
- This paper argues that understanding the link between global capitalist crisis macrodynamics and water commodification trends requires a discussion of the crucial intervening public management strategy, namely the decentralisation of ...
- Is household-centred environmental sanitation planning a new approach to handling urban sanitation?
- S. Thammanosouth (ed); M. Duangnouluck (ed); T. Chanthala (ed) / NCCR North South, 2005
- This paper looks at the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation Planning (HCES) as an approach to environmental sanitation. The HCES approach is a radical departure from past central planning approaches as its places the household ...
- Afghanistan's informal settlements: a prescription for livelihood insecurity and poverty
- S. Schutte; B. Bauer / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
- Informal settlements have proliferated in Afghan cities as a result of conflict and drought. The fall of the Taliban in 2001 increased the spread of urbanisation due to returning refugees seeking employment. Informal settlements are b...
- Improving city management: lessons from the Philippines' public governance system.
- K. E. Bettcher / Center for International Private Enterprise, 2008
- Since 1986, the Philippines has struggled to establish a democracy capable of addressing the needs of all levels of society. Political turmoil has shaken public confidence in governing institutions and impeded improvements in the qual...
- Understanding urban environmental changes in Latin America
- R.S. Rodriguez; A. Bonilla / Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil, 2008
- Despite the central role of urban areas in socio-economic and geo-political change processes at the local, regional, and global level, as well as in the regional and global biophysical processes, little attention has been paid so far ...
- Lessons from 'Right to Land' in Rio de Janeiro
- P. Pelegrino / Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2008
- This paper describes, contextualises and analyses the experience of the Bento Rubião Foundation in relation to its right to land project. As part of this project, the Foundation assists low-income groups in the metro...
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