01/04/2022
DPU's Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) 4-year research project closes
After 4½ years of extensive research and capacity building across 6 work streams and 12 cities in African, Asia and Latin America, the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) is drawing to a close.
01/04/2022
🙌 After four and a half years co-producing pathways to urban equality, yesterday (31 March 2022), Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW officially came to a close. ✨✨
👊 Whilst our funding has ended, there will still be a few final outputs later in 2022 ,which will be added to our page www.urban-know.com/resources.
In closing, the Principal Investigator would like to share the following message 🤓 👉 https://www.urban-know.com/post/know-programme-closes
🌍You can still tag us, comment and share our past posts, but our social media channels will become mostly inactive over the coming months.
👏👏To all our valued , subscribers, and friends, we would like to thank you for staying and for all your interest and support in the programme.
📣 📣 The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL UCL Institute for Global Prosperity The Bartlett The Bartlett Durham University The University of Sheffield Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre Cci Tanzania Makerere University Slum Dwellers International - SDI. UN-HABITAT United Cities and Local Governments Development Studies Association FLACSO Costa Rica Gracc Desarrollo CONURB PUCP Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - PUCP Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) MSc Building and Urban Design in Development ACHR Home ACHR Community Architects Network Arkom Indonesia
31/03/2022
👋 Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW & the Institute for Global Prosperity have had two fantastic days workshopping with community & Federation partners, NGOs, key stakeholders and universities, the initial findings from Africa's first-ever localised index, led by the incredible Cci Tanzania team
👋✊Tim Ndezi Festo Dominic Makoba
👋Wonderful to share and co-produce the 'maisha bora' model to better understand what 'the good life' means to local communities in the informal settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 🇹🇿
Find out more about the research at 👉https://tinyurl.com/5n8yrwh5
Saffron Woodcraft Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre Festo Dominic Makoba Tim Ndezi Makerere University Nii Noi Osuteye The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL
29/03/2022
👋Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW & Institute for Global Prosperity Investigators are delighted to be back in this week, working alongside Cci Tanzania & Federation Partners, to share initial findings from first coproduced, localised index. ✊
🤓Find out more about the research here 👉https://tinyurl.com/5n8yrwh5
🇹🇿 Today we visited Federation members in Keko Machunga (pictured), who were survey participants in helping to understanding and shape what 'maisha bora' (the good life) looks like in informal settlements of the Dar es Salaam.
Looking forward to sharing findings with municipal, government, university, and other partners over the days to come.
👏Stay tuned! 🇹🇿
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre The Conversation Africa Makerere University Nii Noi Osuteye Saffron Woodcraft The Bartlett BritishInstitute IneasternAfrica
28/03/2022
🌍 🙌Read now
New article in The Conversation Africa from Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW Investigators Nii Noi Osuteye & Vanesa Castan Broto with Linda Westman looking at the catastrophic effects of increased on the urban poor in , as a result of
🤓 🌊 https://theconversation.com/a-billion-of-the-worlds-most-climate-vulnerable-people-live-in-informal-settlements-heres-what-they-face-178116
The University of Sheffield The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL Budd Dpu UrbanAfrica BritishInstitute IneasternAfrica Overdue JustSanitation Cci Tanzania Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre
A billion of the world's most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements – here's what they face
The UN estimates one in four city dwellers live without access to basic services or adequate housing.
22/03/2022
📒 Out now!
➡️ 🇹🇿 New Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality KNOW from Dar es Salaam City Partner Cci Tanzania exploring the benefits of Simplified Sewerage Systems.
🚽 ✅ Read now
➡️ https://www.urban-know.com/policy-brief-cci-sanitation
🤓 This Policy Brief examines the social and economic impacts of implementing Simplified Sewerage Systems (SSS) in the informal settlement of Mji Mpya. Through the collection of qualitative and quantitative data, the research focuses on four issues: the economic impacts of SSS on residents; the social impacts of the SSS on the community; the ongoing maintenance of the SSS; and the ways that transformative policy might support the scaling-up of SSS across other informal settlements in Dar es Salaam. ✊
Overdue JustSanitation The Bartlett Development Planning Unit UCL Institute for Global Prosperity Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre Chris Yap Colin McFarlane Tim Ndezi Festo Dominic Makoba Slum Dwellers International - SDI. BritishInstitute IneasternAfrica UN-HABITAT
18/03/2022
UCL Open Science Conference: How does Citizen Science change us?
How does citizen science change us? Exploring the impacts on ‘citizens’, ‘researchers’, ‘policymakers’, and social action
18/03/2022
Planning for equitable futures - Maimunah Mohd Sharif
A public lecture with Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme14 March 2022Maimunah Mohd SharifExecutive Di...