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Global Observatory and Local Democracy and Decentralization Report 2022

November 30, 2022 LPSAManager
Published every three years, United Cities and Local Government’s Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD) reports are an important part of UCLG’s quest to become an international reference point for information about local […]
Cities and urban development

Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook

August 23, 2022 LPSAManager
The World Bank Group published a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. This guidebook introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools […]
Africa

Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked: they shouldn’t be

July 17, 2022 LPSAManager
Often when one thinks or writes about urbanization in Africa, mega-cities or primary cities like Lagos, Nairobi, Addis Ababa or Kampala, come to mind. Little, however, is written about places like Gabés in Tunisia, Touba-Mbacké […]
Cities and urban development

Local Government Finance is Development Finance

July 6, 2022 LPSAManager
The Local Transformative Finance team at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) recently released a book titled Local Government Finance is Development Finance. This book highlights the partnership, policy and investment agenda of UNCDF in […]
Cities and urban development

Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development

March 17, 2022 LPSAManager
Place matters for productivity and prosperity. More and more people are choosing to live in cities. They offer better opportunities, better services, and sanctuary from conflict and the effects of climate change influences. Yet large […]
Cities and urban development

Integrating Climate Change into Spatial Planning in Kosovo

February 6, 2022 LPSAManager
Climate change has become one of the biggest global threats and its impacts are already being faced by many cities and human settlements around the world, including those in Kosovo. The way cities are planned, […]
Cities and urban development

Climate resilience in the global South depends on greater attention to urban governance systems

December 7, 2021 LPS Alliance
As far back as 2006, cities were found to account for over 70% of energy-related carbon emissions.  And cities are growing rapidly in both population and land area covered.  The UN reports that ninety percent […]
Cities and urban development

Our City Plans: UN Habitat launches its updated participatory urban planning toolbox

October 17, 2021 LPS Alliance
What is UN-Habitat’s Our City Plans? Our City Plans, formerly known as Participatory Incremental Urban Planning (PIUP), is a toolbox that allows local governments and urban actors to implement projects, plans, and planning processes. It […]
Brazil

UN-Habitat’s Handbook For City Managers

September 25, 2021 Tianyu Chen
Urban governance is identified by UN-Habitat as a fundamental factor in the implementation and fulfillment of the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. Intended to help city managers and other stakeholders achieve these goals, […]
Cities and urban development

The economic benefits of cities in the developing world

July 29, 2021 LPS Initiative
Dulani Chunga moved from a safe, quiet but poor village in Malawi to Blantyre, the prime business city, in the hopes of changing his destiny. He was drawn to the city by stories of streetlights, […]

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