Urbanization
Urbanization 2017-2019
The urban environment is changing rapidly in a way unique to the African continent. African cities face different challenges and trajectories compared to their Western counterparts, who have dominated the research landscape. With contextualized research to draw upon, urban planners and municipal governments can be better positioned to experiment and innovate with local communities to improve their cities.
To support this effort, UNAS has produced publications both for the local context and for the regional one. UNAS published its first report on urban challenges, focusing on the governance of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) entitled Owning Our Urban Future: The Case of Kampala City. UNAS also published a regional support in partnership with the Kenya National Academy of Sciences (KNAS), the Ethiopian National Academy of Sciences (ENAS), and the Tanzanian National Academy of Sciences (TNAS), and National Young Academy affiliates of Uganda (UNYA) and Ethiopia (ENYA) and the African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST) entitled Owning Our Urban Future: The Case of Eastern Africa. Most recently, UNAS published a report entitled Owning Our Urban Future: Urban-Rural Linkages for Balanced Regional Development in Africa, focusing on how to better balance urban and rural development.
Science for Policy – Transmission Pipeline for Evidence Informed Decision Making (TRAPE) Project 2020
Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) in partnership with the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation (MoSTI) is implementing a one-year seed project to develop detailed and defined evidence pathways for use in decision making. Defining the evidence Pipeline provides a powerful and detailed account of how and where decision-makers can obtain, translate and use evidence better. It guides government and funding agencies to strengthen further the processes of evidence utilization, and challenges academic bodies to make greater efforts in making research findings easier to understand and more widely available. This project was under the Initiative for Expanding Evidence Leadership in Africa, run by the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in collaboration with the African Academy of Sciences.
The specific project objectives were:
- To map all actors in the evidence-policy interface for two selected Government Ministry/ Department/Agencies (MDAs) and to identify opportunities for effective engagement along with the sector’s decision/policy formulation processes;
- To collaboratively design a sector-specific evidence pipeline to support decision making processes at the sector/ministry level;
- To recommend to the government through MoSTI a coherent national evidence pipeline strategy for institutionalizing the evidence pathway that can be scaled up to all its different sectors; and
- To initiate the compilation of the databank for evidence information in liaison with relevant universities and research institutes.
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