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In favour of direct aid for cities

Rowan Fraser • 14 October 2014

Despite growing numbers of international development organisations focused at the municipal level, donors are still reluctant to provide ODA (official development assistance) directly to local governments, a situation which Rowan Fraser argues needs to change.

Maintaining a critical perspective on cities

Kerwin Datu • 14 October 2014

Founder and outgoing editor-in-chief Kerwin Datu reflects on our purpose in a changing media world.

The road to Habitat III: a wake-up call to the New Urban Agenda

Kerwin Datu • 22 April 2014

We set out our intentions for the next two years leading to Habitat III in 2016, with a call to think beyond the tick-a-box approach to the Habitat Agenda currently being encouraged.

The knowledge gap dividing the two halves of the World Urban Forum

Laura Cesafsky • 22 April 2014

Reviewing UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum held in Medellín last week, Laura Cesafsky hears two camps talking past each other on the lack of scientific knowledge underpinning the New Urban Agenda.

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Ending discriminatory development: a truly new Habitat III Agenda

Kerwin Datu and Naik Lashermes • 22 April 2014

We propose mechanisms to resolve the conflict that arises in urban areas in a routine manner, with recommendations in the areas of democratisation, accountability, and statistical capacities.

Mayors don't need a World Association of Cities

Andrew Stevens and Jonas Schorr • 3 September 2013

A day of global action for safer cities for women and girls

Katie Gillett • 19 February 2013

A tiny step closer to an enforceable right to housing

Kerwin Datu • 12 February 2013

With Uruguay ratifying the Optional Protocol of the ICESCR, ten countries will soon have a right to housing somewhat enforceable under international law.

How democracy is forcing itself onto the global urban agenda

Kerwin Datu and Naik Lashermes • 24 December 2012

Time to welcome the informal workforce to the policy table

Caroline Skinner • 23 October 2012

What do forced evictions look like?

Kerwin Datu • 2 October 2012

Witness' documentary People Before Profit portrays forced evictions around the world, expressing the trauma that citizens feel when their homes and possessions are violently taken from them.

How can we enforce the right to adequate housing?

Kerwin Datu • 18 September 2012

Four keys to urban expansion at the World Urban Forum

Kerwin Datu • 11 September 2012

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