Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Etude des stratégies déployées par les ménages victimes ou en situation de risque d’inondation dans la ville de Niamey
(Urban ARK, 2018)Capitale du Niger depuis 1926, la communauté urbaine de Niamey couvre une superficie de 255 km². Elle dispose de cinq communes dont quatre (I, II, III, IV) se trouvent sur la rive gauche et la commune V à la rive droite.C’est ... -
GIS - What Can and What Can't it Say About Social Relations in Adaptation to Urban Flood Risk?
(Urban ARK/Waterpower, 2018)Urban flooding cannot be avoided entirely and in all areas, particularly in coastal cities. Therefore adaptation to the growing risk is necessary. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) based knowledge on risk ... -
Supporting Community-led Research on Risks and Creating Policy Platforms to Enhance Nairobi's Governance for Resilience
(Urban ARK, 2018)This briefing outlines the development of community-led research to promote urban governance for resilience and how impactful partnerships can be created within a research programme. Based on Urban-ARK’s work in Nairobi, ... -
An Exploratory Analysis into Urban Index-based Microinsurance for Flood Risk in Nairobi: A Community-based Approach
(Urban ARK, 2018)Climate change continues to amplify vulnerability in low-income communities across Nairobi, with many urban livelihoods at great risk to the impacts of flooding. This study explores the scope for index insurance ... -
Looking Backwards to Reduce Future risk in Small African Cities
(Urban ARK, 2018)The past may reveal local patterns and triggers of urban risk, highlighting the importance of long-term exposure to everyday events and barriers to risk reduction. A historically grounded response to risk will ensure greater ... -
From Plan to Action: Assessing Integration and Evolution of Solid Waste Management Policies in Kenya
(Urban ARK, 2018)Kenya has developed various policy frameworks to guide the management of solid waste. However, their focus on environment dominates over health outcomes, and major gaps exist in stipulating clear policy strategies and ... -
Towards Risk-Sensitive and Transformative Urban Development in Sub Saharan Africa
(MDPI, 2018)Risk-sensitive urban development is required to reduce accumulated risk and to better consider risk when planning new developments. To deliver a sustainable city for all requires a more frank and comprehensive focus on ... -
Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)For cities in sub-Saharan Africa a 1.5 °C increase in global temperature will bring forward the urgency of meeting basic needs in sanitation, drinking water and land-tenure, and underlying governance weaknesses. The ... -
Improving Solid Waste Management Practices to Reduce Health Risks in Nairobi and Mombasa
(Urban ARK, 2018)Globally, urbanisation is associated with the increased generation of solid waste. City authorities are struggling to provide adequate waste management services, especially in developing countries. In Kenya, approximately ... -
Risk beyond the red line: Urban Risk and Capital Projects in Kenya
(Urban ARK, 2018)This report identifies key challenges which influence urban risk accumulation from large infrastructure projects. In response to these challenges the report proposes 5 key principles and 4 inroads for change. -
Vulnerability of Urban Primary and Secondary Schools to Fire Hazards: A Qualitative Study in Ibadan, Nigeria
(Urban ARK, 2018)In recent years, lives and property worth millions of dollarshave been destroyed in fire disasters in secondary schools around the world. Cases of fire disasters in Nigeriansecondary schools have been experienced in ... -
Etude des déterminantsde la vulnérabilité et stratégie de gestion locale dans les quartiers inondés de Yeumbeul Sud et Keur Massar (Sénégal)
(Urban ARK, 2018)Cette recherche contribue à la littérature sur le risque de catastrophes, en approfondissant la compréhensionde la relation entre la vulnérabilité aux inondations, l'urbanisme et les stratégies d'adaptation locales. Ce ... -
Assessing Multi-hazard Risk to Urban Infrastructure Using Low-cost GIS Techniques
(Urban ARK, 2018)Natural hazards (e.g. floods, fires) have the potential to occur at the same time or trigger other natural hazards. These multi-hazards potentially have a greater impact than the individual impacts from the individual ... -
Policy development: An analysis of disability inclusion in a selection of African Union policies
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Contemporary debates in international development discourse are concerned with the non‐tokenistic inclusion and participation of marginalized groups in the policy‐making process in developing countries. This is directly ... -
Success in Africa: People with Disabilities Share Their Stories
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Whereas most narratives of disability in sub-Saharan Africa stress barriers and exclusion, Africans with disabilities appear to show resilience and some appear to achieve success. In order to promote inclusion ... -
Improving Primary Education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: End-Line Results of a Cluster-Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Learning in a Healing Classroom
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)We used a cluster-randomized, wait-list controlled trial to examine impacts of a school-based social-emotional learning intervention on Congolese students and teachers. Seventy-six school clusters in two groups (A and B) ... -
The Impact of an Inclusive Education Intervention on Teacher Preparedness to Educate Children with Disabilities within the Lakes Region of Kenya
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)There has been little empirical study within low- and middle-income countries on how to effectively prepare teachers to educate children with disabilities. This paper reports on the impact of an intervention designed to ... -
Improving 21st-Century Teaching Skills: The Key to Effective 21st-Century Learners
(SAGE, 2019)The development of competencies known as 21st-century skills are garnering increasing attention as a means of improving teacher instructional quality. However, a key challenge in bringing about desired improvements lies ... -
Assessment of Pedagogical Practices and Processes in Low and Middle Income Countries: Findings From Secondary School Classrooms in Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)This article outlines the development and validation of a classroom observation instrument for use in low and middle income countries. The Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes Systemⓒ (TIPPS) was designed to be a ... -
Measuring and Predicting Process Quality in Ghanaian Pre-primary Classrooms using the Teacher Instructional Practices and Processes System (TIPPS)
(Elsevier, 2018)In recent years, there has been an increase in the demand for and supply of early childhood education (ECE) in low- and middle-income countries. There is also growing awareness that unless ECE is of high quality, children ...