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Empowering the Urban Poor to Improve Their Communities

How the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme is achieving results at the community level.

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Positioning Liberia's Cities to Drive Economic Growth for All

How the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme is achieving results at the municipal level.

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Enabling Inclusive Urban Policy and Planning in Liberia

How the Cities Alliance Liberia Country Programme is achieving results at the national level.

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Call for Proposals - Secure Tenure in African Cities: Micro Funds for Community Innovation

This Call for Proposals has closed.

Innovation Programme Call for Proposals 2019. The Cities Alliance has launched a Call for Proposals to award small grants for innovative ways to improve tenure security, land and property rights in African cities.

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RFP for the supply of a synthesis report for the Joint Work Programme for Equitable Economic Growth in Cities

Apply by 3 May 2019

Tunisia Announces Local Finance Reform Commission

The Commission is an important result from the Cities Alliance Tunisia Country Programme.

Request for Proposal: Knowledge Product on “Smart technologies for more equitable city economies”

Submit Expressions of Interest by 25 April 2019.

Prepared Communities: Implementing the Urban Community Resilience Assessment in Vulnerable Neighborhoods of Three Cities

This report describes the UCRA's pilot project results, insights and potential to build more climate-resilient cities.
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Cities Alliance Donates to Small Sanitation Firms In Liberia

Tackling Waste: Cities Alliance Donates to Small Sanitation Firms In Liberia

Mobilising Local Communities

Mobilising Communities in Burkina Faso

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Local and Regional Governments in the Follow-up and Review of Global Sustainability Agendas

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Incremental innovation has the potential to create inclusive development and to bring sectors together to position housing at the centre of urban development.
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Secondary cities are among the fastest growing in the world, and the arrival point for tens of thousands of migrants each year.
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Countries seeking to implement National Urban Policies need a strong legal framework. A Cities Alliance study on urban laws in the LAC region offers insights.
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Cities Alliance Assembly

Monrovia
Liberia
27 - 31 May 2019

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Training-Facilitators-Guide
This Facilitator’s Guide prepared by UN-Habitat and Cities Alliance accompanies the Quick Guides for Policy Makers: Housing the Poor in African Cities series.
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Historically, governments have implemented slum upgrading projects and programmes of varying scale and scope
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This joint report from Cities Alliance and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) finds that the rapid pace of urbanisation represents an opportunity to build more sustainable, innovative and equitable towns and cities
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This brief explores how the global agreements relate to cities and how they provide a framework for action on sustainable urban development that can be implemented by governments at the national, local and regio
National-Urban-Policies
This joint report from the Cities Alliance and UN-Habitat reviews the experience of national urban policies in selected countries around the world
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The African continent is currently in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions