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  1. Library Resource

    The Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guide

    Manuals & Guidelines
    July, 2019
    South Africa

    The Neighbourhood Planning and Design Guide is a comprehensively updated and revised version of its predecessor, the Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design, commonly known as the Red Book. The Red Book, published in 2000, was preceded by a series of guideline documents aimed at improving the quality of settlement planning and design.

  2. Library Resource

    A Transit-Oriented Development Lens

    Conference Papers & Reports
    August, 2018
    South Africa

    The papers in this volume take a city perspective and provide both a critical reflection of and a pragmatic response to what cities are able to do given their current mandate and powers. The first paper begins by considering what the TOD agenda means for the urban poor. It questions whether TOD can adequately address the existing land challenges in South African cities, given the politics of land inequality and the skewed property markets.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Environmental degradation primarily
    affects the poor, both in rural and urban areas. Reversing
    the downward spiral of this degradation is essential to any
    strategy for reducing poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. This
    study outlines the World Bank's strategy for improving
    its assistance to SSA countries as they move toward
    environmentally sustainable development (ESD). It assesses
    the environmental situation and long-term trends in Africa,

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Tanzania

    This Public Expenditure Review (PER) for
    FY00, provided support to the Government of Tanzania in the
    preparation of its budget, and Medium Term Expenditure
    Framework (MTEF), and performed as well an external
    evaluation of the country's budget performance. The
    report contains two volumes, the Main Report (v. I) first
    describes the main features of the PER process, to then
    present the main findings emerging from a review of fiscal

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    A decade and a half of relative peace and political stability, broad economic reforms, and far-reaching political decentralization have brought Ethiopia back from one of its lowest levels of income per capita to one of its highest levels over the past forty years. At the same time, Gross Domestic Product per capita today is still only slightly above the levels reached in the early 1970 underscoring the deep-rooted and complex nature of poverty in Ethiopia.

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Togo

    This review concludes that for
    Togo's urban and peri-urban areas to sustainably grow,
    issues of urban governance and development need to be
    approached in a comprehensive manner, driven by well -guided
    policies developed in partnership with the people to support
    Sub-National Government Authorities and Entities(SGAs) in
    carrying out their functions efficiently. To meet evolving
    challenges of urbanization and decentralization, the

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ghana

    The Ghana Country Environment Analysis
    (CEA) has thus been formulated to assist the Government of
    Ghana and its development partners to: (a) assess the
    country's environmental priorities in key sectors, the
    environmental implications of key economic and sector
    policies, and the country's institutional capacity to
    address them; and (b) find practical management,
    institutional, and policy solutions to handle issues of

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Mozambique

    Municipalities in Mozambique were
    established by law in 1997 and elected in 1998 for the first
    time, only a few years after the peace agreement. Most
    inherited archaic and dysfunctional remnants of colonial and
    central government systems and infrastructure, and as such
    limited progress was achieved in transforming them into
    functioning local governments during the first mandate
    (1998-2002). During the second mandate (2003-2008), however,

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Tanzania

    This report presents the problem,
    describes the analytical framework, the African and World
    context and the characteristics that need to be present for
    a responsible and effective urbanization. Chapter one
    discusses the issues involved in measuring urban growth and
    density and the problem of under-measuring density. Chapter
    two introduces key aspects of the recent urbanization in
    Tanzania, including migration, structure of economy and

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Uganda

    This report describes theTransforming
    Settlements of the Urban Poor in Uganda. A Secondary Cities
    Support Program (TSUPU), is the first national initiative
    within the Cities Alliance's global programme, Land,
    Services and Citizenship for the Urban Poor (LSC). The first
    premise of the Medium Term Strategy is that the Cities
    Alliance should prioritise working with those governments
    already committed to change and reform over time for three

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