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Tune in to hear about potential ways forward to enhance food systems and security in the city 👇
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Podcast: Fortifying food systems in Lagos - ACRC
Ismail Ibraheem, Taibat Lawanson, Folasade Adeboyejo and Deji Akinpelu discuss opportunities for improvements across the food system in Lagos, which could help make the city healthier and more liveabl...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Tune in to hear about potential ways forward to enhance food systems and security in the city 👇
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They discuss policy shifts and initiatives that could help make the city healthier and more liveable – from increasing local food production, to building reform coalitions and implementing policies to bolster the food waste value chain.
October 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
They discuss policy shifts and initiatives that could help make the city healthier and more liveable – from increasing local food production, to building reform coalitions and implementing policies to bolster the food waste value chain.
A new ACRC report explores the complex dynamics of contested political systems and their impact on the people of Lagos.
It integrates political settlements analysis, city system mapping and domain studies to provide a comprehensive overview of the city’s multifaceted urban development landscape.
It integrates political settlements analysis, city system mapping and domain studies to provide a comprehensive overview of the city’s multifaceted urban development landscape.
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A new ACRC report explores the complex dynamics of contested political systems and their impact on the people of Lagos.
It integrates political settlements analysis, city system mapping and domain studies to provide a comprehensive overview of the city’s multifaceted urban development landscape.
It integrates political settlements analysis, city system mapping and domain studies to provide a comprehensive overview of the city’s multifaceted urban development landscape.
While rapid urbanisation has vastly outstripped the state’s capacity to provide adequate infrastructure, Lagos’s position as the commercial hub and economic powerhouse of Nigeria presents several development opportunities – despite its challenges.
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
While rapid urbanisation has vastly outstripped the state’s capacity to provide adequate infrastructure, Lagos’s position as the commercial hub and economic powerhouse of Nigeria presents several development opportunities – despite its challenges.
Working Paper 31 - ACRC
Addis Ababa: City report | Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher
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August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Providing an overview of Addis Ababa’s complex and contested urban development landscape, the report highlights pertinent development challenges facing city residents and presents potential interventions to address them.
Read our blog post for a summary 👇
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Read our blog post for a summary 👇
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New research: Advancing urban reform opportunities in Addis Ababa - ACRC
A new ACRC report, led by Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, uncovers the interplay of politics, systems and urban development in the fast-growing capital city, shining a light on the challenges facing resident...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Providing an overview of Addis Ababa’s complex and contested urban development landscape, the report highlights pertinent development challenges facing city residents and presents potential interventions to address them.
Read our blog post for a summary 👇
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Read our blog post for a summary 👇
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The report brings together analysis from research reports on political settlements and city systems, along with studies on three urban development domains:
🏠 housing
📈 structural transformation
✍️ youth and capability development
🏠 housing
📈 structural transformation
✍️ youth and capability development
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The report brings together analysis from research reports on political settlements and city systems, along with studies on three urban development domains:
🏠 housing
📈 structural transformation
✍️ youth and capability development
🏠 housing
📈 structural transformation
✍️ youth and capability development
Read more about how the project aims to establish Mathare as a model for scalable, sustainable and community-driven waste management systems in this blog post from Michelle Koyaro 👇
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Creating the conditions for change in Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi - ACRC
SDI Kenya, through ACRC, is aiming to co-develop solutions with Mathare community members, by devising a holistic waste management system in the area.
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July 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Read more about how the project aims to establish Mathare as a model for scalable, sustainable and community-driven waste management systems in this blog post from Michelle Koyaro 👇
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SDI Kenya is leading an ACRC action research project aimed at co-developing solutions with Mathare community members, to devise a holistic waste management system. It will aim to connect 3 main thematic areas:
1️⃣ Solid waste management
2️⃣ Sewer + liquid waste infrastructure
3️⃣ Productive public spaces
1️⃣ Solid waste management
2️⃣ Sewer + liquid waste infrastructure
3️⃣ Productive public spaces
July 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
SDI Kenya is leading an ACRC action research project aimed at co-developing solutions with Mathare community members, to devise a holistic waste management system. It will aim to connect 3 main thematic areas:
1️⃣ Solid waste management
2️⃣ Sewer + liquid waste infrastructure
3️⃣ Productive public spaces
1️⃣ Solid waste management
2️⃣ Sewer + liquid waste infrastructure
3️⃣ Productive public spaces
Mathare's waste management system is highly fragmented, with informalities throughout the value chain.
Numerous investments aimed at improving living conditions in Mathare have largely been unsuccessful in bringing about meaningful change.
Numerous investments aimed at improving living conditions in Mathare have largely been unsuccessful in bringing about meaningful change.
July 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Mathare's waste management system is highly fragmented, with informalities throughout the value chain.
Numerous investments aimed at improving living conditions in Mathare have largely been unsuccessful in bringing about meaningful change.
Numerous investments aimed at improving living conditions in Mathare have largely been unsuccessful in bringing about meaningful change.
Read the blog post for the next three stages and to learn more about ACRC's capability development approach 👇
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How does action research build community and state capabilities? - ACRC
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts focusing on how urban reform happens, and where ACRC fits into change processes. This post takes a closer look at how ACRC is helping build community capab...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Read the blog post for the next three stages and to learn more about ACRC's capability development approach 👇
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Through the lens of an action research project that ACRC has been supporting in Maiduguri, Diana outlines six key stages of building community capabilities, including:
1️⃣ working out the change that is needed
2️⃣ broader engagement with the proposed solution
3️⃣ gaining support from professionals
1️⃣ working out the change that is needed
2️⃣ broader engagement with the proposed solution
3️⃣ gaining support from professionals
July 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Through the lens of an action research project that ACRC has been supporting in Maiduguri, Diana outlines six key stages of building community capabilities, including:
1️⃣ working out the change that is needed
2️⃣ broader engagement with the proposed solution
3️⃣ gaining support from professionals
1️⃣ working out the change that is needed
2️⃣ broader engagement with the proposed solution
3️⃣ gaining support from professionals
The partnership also seeks to identify and address critical financing gaps, infrastructure deficiencies, community organisation challenges, technical limitations and policy barriers that hinder the effectiveness of ongoing efforts.
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Systems change for water and sanitation in informal settlements: The Mukuru Special Planning Area - ACRC
The Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi is home to a population of about 400,000. Akiba Mashinani Trust has partnered with ACRC to document the methodologies, systems and practices employed in exp...
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June 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The partnership also seeks to identify and address critical financing gaps, infrastructure deficiencies, community organisation challenges, technical limitations and policy barriers that hinder the effectiveness of ongoing efforts.
Read more 👇
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Read more 👇
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