Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Governance, Urban governance

Showing 181-190 of 274 results

Pages

  • Document

    Assessment of a possible post-MDG Urban Transport Indicator

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    Evidence on Demand was requested to support DFID in work on what the post MDG framework might look like. This brief report was prepared to consider the data availability and measurability of indicators for a proposed target to halve the number of people without ready access to urban transport services, and the cost of achieving such a target.
  • Document

    Unemployment, service provision and violence reduction policies in urban Maharashtra

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    Over 40 per cent of Maharashtra's population live in urban slums, characterised by the acute inequalities of inadequate housing, poor service provision, lack of access to health and sanitation, overcrowded spaces, and limited employment opportunities.
  • Document

    Wereda and Community Roads Maintenance and Asset Management Strategy

    TI-UP Resource Centre, 2010
    Ethiopia has an extensive tertiary network of wereda and community roads estimated to be at least 90,000 kilometres in length. The majority of the roads have an earth surface and only a very small proportion have been constructed to fully engineered standard, hence most of the roads are only reliably passable in dry weather.
  • Document

    Basic services and decentralisation. Briefing note for the World Urban Forum 2012

    Evidence on Demand, 2012
    This briefing note was prepared to inform a discussion at the 2012 World Urban Forum on Basic Services and Decentralisation. The note focuses on the impact of decentralisation on service delivery – not only on greater coverage and access to services, but also as a transformative means to make services more sustainable and responsive to consumer preferences.
  • Document

    Cities in developing countries and their development in response to climate change

    Evidence on Demand, 2013
    DFID are undertaking a basic analysis around cities in developing countries and the potential for increased attention as a response to climate change and natural resource scarcity. This paper contributes to the analysis as a quick and brief overview.
  • Document

    Resilience of outdoor spaces in an era of climate change: the problem of developing countries

    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 warming and climate extremes. The paper argues that environmental considerations must form an integral part of such design to ensure human wellbeing.
  • Document

    Planning Dhaka as a Global City: A Critical Discourse

    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 opportunities for economic growth and development and quality life for its population and services to its outside areas, sometimes exceeding the national boundaries.
  • Document

    World Disasters Report 2010: Focus on Urban Risk

    International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2010
    This report provides suggestions on how high disaster risk within developing countries cities can be reduced. It also highlights how, in a globalised world, a deficiency on one side of the world can create problems for all.
  • Document

    Accountability arrangements to combat corruption: a note on research methodology for combating corruption

    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 in the infrastructure sector.
  • Document

    Urban governance index: conceptual foundation and field test report

    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 developed in line with the campaign’s advocacy and capacity building strategies.

Pages