Poverty
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Mind the Gap
Kim Harrisberg takes a hard look at the inequality that haunts South Africa’s streets, through interviews with men living and working beneath a bridge in the wealthy suburb of Sandton.
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Nairobi’s dirty money
Nairobi bustles with high-class bars, glitzy hotels and top-end homes. The middle class is growing quickly and Kenya’s government plans to turn Nairobi into an international financial centre by 2025 — part of its goal to pull East Africa’s largest economy into the ranks of newly industrialised nations by 2030.
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Mentally ill people lost on the streets of Addis Ababa
An estimated 80,000 mentally ill people need to be admitted to hospital but are instead living on the streets in Addis Ababa. Stigamtized, they are alienated by society and considered to be possessed by the devil. The only two mental health hospitals in the capital city, Amanuel Hospital and Gefersa Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre, cannot accommodate […]
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Looking at cities through food: Consuming Urban Poverty
Food systems have been studied in primary cities but there is far less understanding about governance of food systems in secondary cities in Africa. The African Centre for Cities has launched a project, ‘Consuming Urban Poverty, which focuses on governing food systems to alleviate poverty in three secondary cities.
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Informal schools in Nairobi’s Mathare slum are centers for child protection
In Mathare, Nairobi’s second largest slum, informal schools act as centres for child protection. Children from three to 13 years-old benefit from the work of volunteers trying to provide them a classroom where learning primary education, a meal a day,s and a bathroom more or less stable. While non-formal education is not recognized by the […]
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Can I have fifty cents please?
Negotiating imagination through the material manifestations of homelessness, Shaun’s story tells of a life constrained to and yet very detached from Main Road
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Confessions of a researcher
Aisling O’Loghen is doing research on urban refugees in Tanzania for her PhD. In this honest, thoughtful post, she questions her role and value as a researcher dealing with the dire realities of her interview subjects.
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Reducing Urban Poverty 2016: Graduate student Paper Competition, Policy Workshop, and Publication
Call for paper abstracts and competition opportunity for graduate papers on urban poverty in the developing world.
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Postdoctoral research fellowship: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Stellenbosch University
One year post-doc research fellowship opportunity at Stellenbosch University, focusing on poverty and public transport.
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Call for papers: Rural-Urban Connections in Sub‐Saharan Africa
The conference addresses the dynamic relationships between rural and urban transformations in sub-Saharan Africa, which is also the focus of the ongoing EU funded research project RurbanAfrica.
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Vacancy: Researcher on Socio-Economic Rights Monitoring Tool
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) seeks to appoint a Researcher for an innovative project based in Newtown, Johannesburg.
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Call for Papers: Reducing Urban Poverty Student Paper Competition
To encourage a new generation of urban policy makers and promote early career research, USAID, International Housing Coalition (IHC), World Bank, the Wilson Center, and Cities Alliance are co-sponsoring the sixth annual paper competition for graduate students, seeking abstracts on urban poverty in the developing world. Winning papers will be published and selected authors will be invited to present their work in a policy workshop to be held at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. in January, 2016. The grand prize winner will also receive $1000.
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“Poverty” and the Politics of Syncopation: Urban Examples from Kinshasa (DR Congo)
This article explores how poverty affects emerging publics in the city, using Kinshasa as a case study.
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Scavenging for solid waste in Kinshasa: A livelihood strategy for the urban poor in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper examines the role that solid-waste scavenging contributes to household livelihoods in the city of Kinshasa.
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Marginality as a Root Cause of Poverty: Identifying Marginality Hotspots in Ethiopia
This paper uses GIS mapping to identify marginality hotspots in Ethiopia.
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Patterns of Economic Growth and Poverty in Sudan
This paper reviews economic growth and poverty levels and incidence in Sudan with a specific focus on per capita income.
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The State of Poverty and Food Insecurity in Maseru, Lesotho
This paper, is a recent publication in the AFSUN urban food security series, reporting back on food security is Maseru.
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The return of food: poverty and urban food security in Zimbabwe after the Crisis
This paper forms part of AFSUN’s urban food security series, focusing on poverty and food insecurity in Zimbabwe.
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Understanding urban poverty in two high-density suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe
This article examines the situation of households residing in two low-income, high-density suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Determinants of usage of communal sanitation facilities in informal settlements of Kisumu, Kenya
Recent journal article focusing on the issue of communal sanitation facilities in the informal settlement of Kisumu, Kenya.
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South Africa’s insurgent citizens: On dissent and the possibility of politics
This book adds to a vibrant literature on contemporary crisis in South Africa and shows how practices of disruptive politics are being driven by South Africa’s insurgent and activist citizens.
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Urban design and sustainable development in Makoko area
This paper seeks to investigate the interplay between urban design and sustainable development in the Makoko area in Lagos, Nigeria.