The Ministry of Urban and Infrastructure disclosed that preparations are finalized for hosting the first AfricanCities Forum to be held in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia will host the African Cities Forum 2024 from September 4 to 6 at the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum.


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African cities: complex, fast-growing, dynamic arenas of politics and progress. Working together, we can share insights, build knowledge and forge solutions – from heads of state to the hearts of communities. Working for cities that work for everyone, seeing the bigger picture, making connections, leaving no one behind.

Most discussions on the origin of human rights refer to the global North, the formation of the UN in 1945 and the adoption of the first international human rights instrument – the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR), three years later. Today, the UDHR remains one of the most influential human rights instruments across the world, having influenced the inclusion of human rights provisions in many national constitutions, and further human rights instruments. However, there is debate around viewing various elements of human rights as indigenous to many societies in the global South, including African societies, albeit articulated differently.


In recent years, there is increasing criticism of the exclusion of global South countries in the processes to develop the UDHR, which thereby excluded perspectives and iterations from these contexts. This has led to the tension between advocates for universalism and cultural relativists. This debate is a reminder of the need to reflect from an African centered lens about the origin of human rights. Doing this requires asking difficult and uncomfortable questions. Are human rights foreign to Africa? Did the fabric of pre-colonial African societies and cities have elements of human rights embedded in them? Was there observance of human rights which predated colonial Africa in our cities? Is it true that the historical evolution of human rights can be traced only to the North? What contribution has Africa made to the evolution and understanding of human rights in today’s cities and societies?


This session attempts to spotlight these questions through multiple lenses in today’s African cities. It brings on board advocates of varied voices in today’s African cities including women, children and persons with disabilities, to share different processes by which champions are enabling both differing and collective voice in urban development

Water for African Cities Programme facilitates the adoption of measures to ensure access to environmentally sound water and sanitation service provision to the un-served, as well as improved access for underserved populations of the target cities. Through demonstration projects and capacity building interventions carried out in collaboration with national partners, regional and international financial institutions, the programme supports water supply and sanitation utilities, local governments, NGOs and communities to leverage resources for scaling up and replication at the country level.

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Africa Insight Conference

Smart Cities In African Context: Inclusive Urban Economies
- Prof. Adrian Saville, director of the GIBS Centre for African Management and Markets (CAMM)
- Thireshen Govender, Principal Architect and Urban Designer at UrbanWorks, Unit Leader at GSA, University of Johannesburg
- Dr. Geci Karuri-Sebina, Associate: South African Cities Network

Seminar Series 1: Cities and Resilience
'Cities of the future: Pathways to a resilient African city beyond COVID-19'
Date: September 3rd 2020 Time: 14:00-16:00pm (EAT) Venue: Zoom

Background
COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges, and opportune moments for city development. The pandemic has had implications on the social setting, the economic status, the ecological environment, and the policy and regulation scapes of urban societies. The nature of what might emerge in terms of city resilience particularly in the African context is speculative at best, but one which requires an understanding of what has been (based on current evidence), what is desired (resilient city imaginaries), and the necessary (disruptive) socio-technical, economic, and policy actions for future African Cities.

This seminar series is part of the preparatory seminars organised around the three conference themes: Climate Action and Sustainable Energy; Cities and Resilience; Science Technology and Innovation. The themes are critical areas for Africa’s transition to sustainable developed economies in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.

The overall output of the preparatory seminars and the main conference (The ARIN International Conference ‘Africa in the Post-COVID-19 World: Lessons for Research and Policy’) is a book volume titled ‘Africa in the Post-COVID-19 World: Lessons for Research and Policy’ that will be edited by Prof. Mark Pelling & Dr. Joanes Atela.

Partners;
A systems approach to Air Pollution (ASAP) East Africa
Governance-of-Socio-Technical-Transformation (GoST)
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)
Tomorrows Nairobi

Michael Turner presents an overview of twenty-four African cities and towns from the rooftop of the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Les 23 et 24 mai 2023, African Cities Lab réunira des politiques, des professionnels de l'urbanisme, universitaires, des entrepreneurs, des acteurs publics et privés et des jeunes du monde entier pour dynamiser le développement des villes africaines.

L'African Cities Lab 2023 SUMMIT vise à créer une véritable plateforme collective, internationale et intergénérationnelle, connectée et ouverte sur le monde, où TOUS les acteurs du développement urbain penseront les villes numériques et intelligentes comme nouveaux modèles pour les villes africaines.

Pendant les deux jours du African Cities Lab 2023 SUMMIT, les générations actuelles et futures du développement urbain et durable des villes africaines se rencontreront autour de discussions sur : la collecte de données en temps réel, l'établissement de réseaux de communication pour connecter les appareils et les personnes en Afrique, l'analyse de données pour optimiser la gestion des ressources urbaines et la création de services publics de base.

Depuis Sèmè City (Cotonou, Bénin) et l'Université Polytechnique Mohammed VI (Ben Guérir, Maroc) et à travers une plateforme en ligne dédiée, des acteurs urbains internationaux et intergénérationnels, des politiciens, des architectes, des chercheurs universitaires, des jeunes, des organisations nationales et internationales dissémineront des idées et imagineront des solutions basées sur les données pour construire de nouveaux modèles de villes africaines.

The “Planning for Climate Change in African Cities” is a 5-week long massive online open course (MOOC) that provides the foundation for understanding cities’ exposure and sensitivity to climate change, and how cities can manage these impacts in the face of growing uncertainty.

This free course will soon be available for you to follow on Coursera.org. To stay informed about the launch date, follow the IHS, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam social media channels.

The “Financing Infrastructure in African Cities” is a 5-week long massive online open course (MOOC) that provides the foundation for understanding how cities can manage and finance their infrastructure.

This free course will soon be available for you to follow on Coursera.org. To stay informed about the launch date, follow the IHS, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam social media channels.