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    Toilet wars: urban sanitation services and the politics of public-private partnerships in Ghana

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This paper examines the impact of the new forms of partnership between the public authorities and private/citizen-based organisations on urban environmental sanitation in the two largest cities of Ghana, namely, Accra and Kumasi.
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    Towards participatory, pro-poor transport policy

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Transport is a necessary input to urban life, providing the means of access from home to activity.  It plays a key role in people’s lives, providing them with access to opportunities. Only recently have planners begun to consider the social, environmental and poverty impacts of transport interventions. Auditing transport for efficiency and anti-poverty effects is still in its infancy.
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    Pro-poor growth in the city: are City Development Strategies the answer?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    City Development Strategies (CDSs) could provide the framework required to link poor communities and planners responsible for city governance and service delivery. Launched in 1999 by Cities Alliance, CDSs aim to bring poor and vulnerable groups into urban planning and policy development processes.
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    Putting access on the agenda: ensuring mobility for people with disabilities

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Whilst developed countries have made progress in making transport services more accessible for people with disabilities, developing countries have lagged behind. However, the human rights approach to disability – seeing every citizen as entitled to be included in social and economic opportunities – is slowly gaining acceptance.
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    Economic regulation and cost-efficiency in Brazilian urban public transport: the case of Belo Horizonte

    Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2004
    This paper analyses the main outcomes and consequences of the bidding process for urban bus services that took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, during 1997-98, focussing on economic efficiency and changes in fares.It finds that: the operators granted contracts were those offering the highest bid; the bidding process was designed in this way because it was concerned with obtaining fiscal
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    Housing mobilization in Calcutta: empowerment for the masses or awareness for the few?

    Norwegian Network for Asian Studies / Asianettverket, University of Oslo, 2004
    [No longer available online: published in Environment and Urbanization, 1 April 2004, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 129-137(9)]This paper describes the evolution of the Calcutta NGO Unnayan and the two related movements which it initiated and supported, Chhinnamul and the National Campaign for Housing Rights (NCHR).
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    Enabling sustainable urban road transport in China: a policy and institutional perspective

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2003
    The study links the major unsustainabilities of China’s urban road transport with those deficiencies in urban road transport planning and management and China’s auto industry policy.Road transportation systems are often characterized by low efficiency, heavy congestion and high environmental pollution.
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    How can communities manage conflict? Urban violence and post-war reconciliation

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can communities solve problems of urban violent crime and regain equilibrium after the trauma of war? Research in urban Port Moresby and low-income neighbourhoods in post- war Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), shows that community-managed conflict mediation, if well supported, can help build trust, confidence and stability.
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    Johannesburg: nightmarish future or potential model of inclusive urban governance?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Built on the sweat of black migrant workers, Johannesburg is synonymous with social fragmentation, environmental degradation, violent crime and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty. How is the city reinventing itself in post-apartheid South Africa? What can it teach other divided cities similarly struggling to promote political, economic and social justice?
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    Recapturing the streets: a vision of equitable and sustainable urban transport

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Why have planners failed to provide safe, affordable and environmentally sustainable transport for the two billion residents of developing country cities? Is transport policy too dependent on Northern technical and economic reasoning? What can be done to halt the export of the Western model of automobile dependence to developing countries?

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