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DPU Working Paper - No. 185
Participatory budgeting in Bogota: a means for social transformation or maintenance of status quo?…
Development Planning Unit
African Legacy and Pastoralist Livelihoods
The DPU's Dr. Zeremariam Fre has stepped down from his role as Director of the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA), of which he was also a founding member.…
Development Planning Unit
'Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis' programme begins
DPU and the Humanitarian Affairs Team of Save the Children UK are delighted to announce their new programme "Human, Economic and Social Flows beyond Crisis: Understanding the Urbanitarian".…
Development Planning Unit
DPU involvement at London Citizens Mayoral Election Assembly
DPU involvement at London Citizens Mayoral Election Assembly. 3 May 2016. Last Thursday, more than 6,000 Londoners came together in the Copper Box Arena to asked for commitments from the two front running mayor candidates to some of the city’s…
Development Planning Unit
Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making
Medellin in motion: Governmental technologies of city-model making. 4 March 2016. ‘Urban Governance and its Discontents’ was the hot topic at the latest Oxford City Debates event hosted by the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities Througha…
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DPU Urban ARK Malawi Visit
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) is a 3-year programme that seeks to better understand the nature and scale of disaster risks in urban centres.…
Development Planning Unit
Climate Change Governance in Cities: Why Experimentation is Essential
Climate Change Governance in Cities: Why Experimentation is Essential. 10 December 2014. An Urban Politics of Climate Change, a timely new book by Vanesa Castán Broto and co-authors Harriet Bulkeley and Gareth Edwards, is now available. The book…
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From Consensus to Representation: Democratic transition in the Somali Horn
From Consensus to Representation: Democratic transition in the Somali Horn. 4 December 2014. Somaliland, an unrecognised nation-state in the Horn of Africa, is under pressure to ‘democratise’. But what does this mean in practice? In hisexamines…
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International observation: elections in Somaliland
International observation: elections in Somaliland. 10 December 2012. On November 28th, 2012, Somaliland, the region that unilaterally declared independence from Somalia in 1991, held local council elections. The campaign and election was witnessed…
Development Planning Unit
DPU Working Paper - No. 143
Murder Capital to Modern Miracle? The Progression of Governance in Medellin Colombia…
Development Planning Unit