Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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Revealing and Responding to Multiple Health Risks in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan African Cities
(Springer, 2019)This paper underscores the need for detailed data on health and disaster risks for sub-Saharan African cities, particularly for their informal settlements. Systems that should contribute to the information base on health ... -
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience
(Routledge, 2020)This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, ... -
Understanding the Role of Networks in Stimulating Adaptation Actions on the Ground: Examples from Two African Case Studies
(Springer, 2019)The networks that support collaboration and knowledge exchange around climate risk and response are emerging as central to climate adaptation. Yet, there is limited empirical knowledge about the conditions by which these ... -
Urban Resilience Building in Fast-growing African Cities
(Urban ARK, 2019)Small- and medium-sized cities and towns in sub-Saharan Africa are growing fast and accumulating risks. Local governments seek to build the resilience of their city in conditions of complex interdependent urban systems and ... -
Filling the Data Gaps on Every Day and Disaster Risks in Cities: the Case of Ibadan
(Urban ARK, 2019)Many cities in sub-Saharan Africa lack official records of deaths and of serious illnesses and injuries from everyday hazards and disaster events at all scales. This is a major limitation to effective planning for risk ... -
From Global Climate Narratives to Local Urban Adaptation Decisions
(Urban ARK, 2019)Dominant global climate change narratives and framings frequently do not translate well into local adaptation decision making. Narratives, such as increasing droughts, increasing flooding, and more frequent extreme events, ... -
Improving Solid Waste Management (SWM) Practices and Addressing Associated Risks to Health in Dakar, Senegal
(Urban ARK, 2018)Dakar can efficiently handle current and future volumes of solid waste if the following steps are taken: i) informal waste collection is synchronised with that of the municipal authorities; ii) environmental laws and ... -
Assessing Health Risks in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan African Cities
(Urban ARK, 2018)Around half of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements, lacking the basic infrastructure and services on which good health depends. These include safe, regular water piped to homes, good ... -
A Spectrum of Methods for a Spectrum of Risk: Generating Evidence to Understand and Reduce Urban Risk in sub-Saharan Africa
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)Many African towns and cities face a range of hazards, which can best be described as representing a “spectrum of risk” of events that can cause death, illness or injury, and impoverishment. Yet despite the growing numbers ... -
Emerging Climate Change-related Public Health Challenges: the Potential Impacts of Temperature Rise on Health Outcomes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Urban ARK, 2018)In Dar es Salaam, climate model analysis strongly suggests that both day- and night-time temperatures will rise, with heat waves also expected to increase. Heat will likely aggravate many existing health and well-being ... -
Urban Dynamics and Everyday Hazards and Disaster Risks in Ibadan, Nigeria
(Urban ARK, 2018)The lack of systematic and homogenous records of people being impacted by everyday hazards and disaster events at all scales in many African cities is a major limitation to effective planning for risk reduction. A preliminary ... -
Why Sub-Saharan cities should look into Parametric Insurance Schemes to Enhance their Climate Risk Management Policy
(Urban ARK, 2018)For the global humanitarian community, disaster risk is most concerning in developing countries where natural hazards are increasingly threatening their fragile economies and the lives, health, and livelihoods of vulnerable ... -
Inserting Rights and Justice into Urban Resilience: a Focus on Everyday Risk in Cities in the South
(Urban ARK, 2018)Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change. However, as the case study cities from the Urban ... -
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 ...