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The African Centre for Cities is an interdisciplinary research and teaching programme focussed on quality scholarship regarding the dynamics of unsustainable urbanization processes in Africa, with an eye on identifying systemic responses.
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allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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A new paper by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) examines the Cape Town drought of 2017/2018 and aims to ensure that lessons learned from the drought would serve to inform other municipalities when adapting to drought and water insecurity.
This paper aims to understand what happened in the Cape Town drought with a view to learning lessons that are translatable to other contexts.
This document adresses the issue of climate compatible development in the context of rapidly growing cities across the African continent, where two key features are widespread: informality and deeply entrenched inequality.
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