Impact Initiative - Governance: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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) ... -
Community-led Housing and Urban Livelihoods: Measuring Employment in Low-income Housing Delivery
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)This paper explores a significant gap in knowledge about the employment impacts of community-led, low-income housing production, and the complex intersections between rights to housing, rights to work, and international ... -
Urban Crises and the Informal Economy: Surviving, Managing, Thriving in Post-Conflict Cities
(UN-Habitat, 2020)Political upheaval or violent conflict is often characterised by a fundamental failure of governance and the destruction of local economies, and yet in the aftermath of conflict, through informal mechanisms of survival and ... -
Urban Refugee Economies: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(IIED, 2018)Over 60 per cent of the world’s refugees live in urban environments, but host governments often restrict their right to work, forcing urban refugees into precarious and often informal economy livelihoods. Through a case ... -
Local Economic Development, Micro-entreprise and Crime Reduction: Lessons from Cali, Colombia
(UN-Habitat, 2018)This Policy Brief argues that successful initiatives to tackle Cali’s exceptionally high homicide rates also have potential for local economic development, and suggests ways that the significant value-added by informal ... -
The Rise of the Economic Technocracy in Rwanda: A Case of a Bureaucratic Pocket of Effectiveness or State-building Prioritisation?
(The University of Manchester, 2019)The Rwandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) is recognised as the most effective organisation in the Rwandan state. The objective of the paper is to understand the organisational ... -
The Challenge of Sustaining a Professional Civil Service Amidst Shifting Political Coalitions: The Case of the Ministry of Finance in Zambia, 1991-2018
(University of Manchester, 2019)Zambia experienced a decade of strong economic growth from 2004 to 2014, averaging 7.4 percent a year. This growth has been linked, first and foremost, to the rise of copper prices and international debt ... -
The Politics of State Capacity and Development in Africa: Reframing and Researching 'Pockets of Effectiveness'
(The University of Manchester, 2019)The role of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) in driving development is generating renewed interest within development studies and, to an extent, development policy. Existing ... -
The Politics of Central Banking in Kenya: Balancing Political and Developmental Interests
(The University of Manchester, 2019)This paper analyses the performance of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) in delivering on its mandate since the organisation gained formal independence in the early-1990s. It utilises a political ... -
Pockets of Effectiveness: The Contributions of Critical Political Economy and State Theory
(The University of Manchester, 2019)The pockets of effectiveness (PoEs) debates and political settlements literature are rooted in particular forms of political economy analysis. At one level, this is a positive contribution to the mainstream ... -
The Shifting Fortunes of the Economic Technocracy in Uganda: Caught Between State-building and Regime Survival?
(The University of Manchester, 2019)Uganda’s impressive levels of economic growth over most of the past three decades have often been linked to the performance of its economic technocracy, particularly the government’s ... -
The Politics of Bureaucratic 'Pockets of Effectiveness': Insights from Ghana's Ministry of Finance
(University of Manchester, 2019)Ghana’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has been identified as a ‘pocket of effectiveness’, both in relation to other state agencies and in terms of delivering on its mandate. However, this effectiveness has ... -
Unravelling the Wider Benefits of Social Pensions: Secondary Beneficiaries of the Older Persons Cash Transfer Program in the Slums of Nairobi
(Elsevier Inc, 2019)A growing number of low and middle income countries have introduced social pension programs for older people. Research has highlighted that the impact of such programs can extend beyond the primary recipient when funds are ... -
Good Governance and Multidimensional Poverty: A Comparative Analysis of 71 Countries
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019)In 2015, the international community committed to “reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions.” According to international development agencies, ...