In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

The involvement of citizens and communities in processes that affect their lives and
livelihoods through co-production methods has gained currency in recent years as a method …

Walking is the dominant mode of transport in informal settlements of the global south,
especially in African cities where structural deficits, morphological challenges and ineffective …

Residents of informal settlements in urban centres in Africa are known to suffer
disproportionate burdens of environmental and socio-economic inequalities and are often …

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads in Africa, attention is increasingly shifting to the
potential and ongoing impact on informal settlements, which face considerable challenges …

Throughout the Global South, urbanization is increasingly coupled with the production of risk
accumulation cycles or urban “risk traps”, which are not exclusively driven but exacerbated …

The trajectory of Freetown's urban development is at the centre of current political
contestations in Sierra Leone. Freetown, a city of over 1 million inhabitants and whose …

Freetown's political economy is influenced by local and national-level politics, which is firmly
linked with the country's weak systems of governance and decentralisation. This is rooted in …

Most local governments in urban areas in low-income countries lack basic information about
the risks that women, men and children face. The information gap is especially true for …

Urbanization in sub Saharan Africa is increasingly associated with the production and
reproduction of risk accumulation cycles or urban “risk traps”, which are still poorly …