Despite claims of lack of accountability and transparency on both sides, NGOs and governments at all levels need to learn to trust each other and work together lest basic services for the urban poor continue to go undeveloped. The CEO of Operation ASHA, an NGO delivering tuberculosis treatment, shares his experiences.
The Indian government agencies responsible for managing the country's urban slums talk of ICT and GIS technology to help them keep track of slum communities, yet they should also reach out to NGOs.
Authorities meet in Nairobi this week to set the agenda for UN-HABITAT, but domestic politics makes a lot of that agenda impossible. How can we put domestic politics back on the table?
We argue for a sense of global ambition for Australia's regional cities and outer suburban centres, and that the issues that confront smaller cities be brought out of the shadows of the megacity.
Transferring the national government to a new city is an escapism that won't solve Jakarta's problems.
With rent prices up sky high around the country, more and more young Australian women are drifting from couch to couch, leaning on friends and sleeping with strangers rather than end up on the streets.
On the occasion of the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Kerwin Datu speaks with Professor Edgar Pieterse, director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, on retheorising the African city, the politics of Africa's mega-regions…
Some NGOs were outraged that they would only receive funds channeled through the government. 'How can we trust that the government will actually provide the funding we need to implement as subcontractors or parners?'
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The Global Urbanist is an online magazine reviewing urban affairs and urban development issues in cities throughout the developed and developing world.
Its readers are drawn from the urban policy and international development sectors, and include urban planners, officers in local, national or international government agencies, civil society leaders, and researchers.
