Monthly Archives: October 2012

Topics: Urban Finance Market UpgradingPublic Space UpgradingPublic-Private Partnerships Location:Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Organizers: Agence Francaise de Developpement Local merchants Background: Burkina Faso is a poor country and its municipalities receive little support from the government. When the Central Market of Bobo-Dioulasso needed upgrading in the late 1990s, the municipality’s poor finances...

Topics: Solid waste management Urban sustainability Location: Low-income, peri-urban neighborhoods of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Organizers: Enda Ocean Indian Community partners The European Union Ensemble Foundation French government Swiss government Background: Before the project, Antananarivo  communities had one or two dumpsters on their fringes that were periodically emptied by the City. The...

Topics: Urban finance Location: South Africa Organizers: Local businesses and property owners Background: In Africa, the use of business improvement districts is the strongest in South Africa, which enacted legislation on “City Improvement Districts” (CID) in order to upgrade badly neglected inner cities that had suffered under Apartheid. The strategy...

Topics: Sanitation Composting Urban Sustainability Location: Kitgum, Uganda Organizers: Europe:  European Union (Donor) BOKU University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria (Co-ordinator) Hamburg University of Technology, Germany EcoSan-Club, Austria WASTE, the Netherlands London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Uganda:  Kitgum Town Council Makerere University Background: With...

Topics: Upgrading of informal settlements Land tenure Urban planning Location:Nouakchott and Nouadhibou, Mauritania Organizers: Groupe de Recherches et d’Échanges Technologiques (GRET) World Bank Commissariat aux Droits de l’Homme, à la Lutte Contre la Pauvreté, et à l’Insertion Background: In the 1970s and 1980s, severe droughts and desertification in the Sahel...