Cities Alliance Annual Report 2018

WATCH:
Stories from
Mbale and
Gulu, part
of the Cities
Alliance
Joint Work
Programme
on Equitable
Economic
Growth in Cities
Improving Public Services for More Equitable Economic Growth in Uganda’s Secondary
Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmR1LVFuFw&t=163s
EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN CITIES KNOWLEDGE
PRODUCTS
A highlight for 2018 was a toolkit produced by WIEGO on public space and
informal livelihoods. The key message of the toolkit is that local governments and
associations of informal workers need to work together in the urban decisionmaking
processes.
The toolkit comprises three products: a discussion paper for urban planners and
policy makers, and two manuals targeting local governments and informal workers.
The toolkit was disseminated at WIEGO’s 2018 general assembly in South Africa,
reaching its extensive network of associations of informal workers, and at Africities
in Marrakesh, the most representative gathering of African local governments.
It is already attracting global attention; the City University of New York (CUNY)
organised a webinar in February focused on the topic of securing access to public
space by informal workers. WIEGO presented the toolkit, and Cities Alliance
provided introductory remarks to give the issue context amid the realities of
secondary cities in the global south.
Several other products were in production in 2018, including a follow-up to the
seminal study Systems of Secondary Cities by Prof. Brian Roberts and another
publication exploring how cities can improve and manage ecosystem services
to support their economies.
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