domingo, 28 de outubro de 2012

ANGOLA: 60 novos municípios podem ser criados

 
«Uma equipa técnica do Ministério da Administração do Território reuniu-se na Baía Farta com as autoridades administrativas, com quem analisou a hipótese da comuna do Dombe Grande ser desanexada e passar a município. O director nacional da organização do território do Ministério da Administração do Território, que chefiou a equipa, lembrou que a elevação de algumas localidades à categoria de municípios implica uma revisão da divisão política administrativa, fixando novos limites territoriais, com base nas realidades de cada região. Correia Caetano revelou que a comuna da Canjala, Lobito, também pode vir a ser promovida a município. O número de novos municípios, referiu, depende da conclusão dos trabalhos que estão a ser realizados em várias localidades do país.
A mesma equipa do Ministério da Administração do Território já trabalhou nas províncias do Namibe e Huambo. Nos próximos tempos, admitiu Correia Caetano à agência de notícias Angop, devem surgir mais de 60 municípios que vão ajudar a desenvolver as comunidades. O Ministério da Administração do Território promoveu a divisão administrativa das províncias de Luanda e do Bengo, cuja Lei foi aprovada pelos deputados à Assembleia Nacional na legislatura passada. Neste processo administrativo, Luanda ficou sem a localidade do Panguila e absorveu os municípios de Quiçama e do Icolo e Bengo.» (Fonte: Jornal de Angola, 28.10.2012)

segunda-feira, 22 de outubro de 2012

Africa Portal

«The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa. An undertaking by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), the Africa Portal offers open access to a suite of features including an online library collection; a resource for opinion and analysis; an experts directory; an international events calendar; and a mobile technology component — all aimed to equip users with research and information on Africa’s current policy issues. A key feature to the Africa Portal is the online library collection holding over 5,000 books, journals, and digital documents related to African policy issues. The entire online repository is open access and available for free full-text download. A portion of the digital documents housed in the library have been digitized for the first time as an undertaking of the Africa Portal project. Facilitating new digitization projects is a core feature of the Africa Portal, which aims to improve access and visibility for African research. The Africa Portal is part of the Africa Initiative project. Download the Africa Portal Brochure Africa Initiative The Africa Initiative (AI) is a multi-year, donor-supported program, with three components: a research program, an exchange program, and an online portal. An undertaking led by The Centre for Governance Innovation, the Africa Initiative aims to contribute to the deepening of Africa’s capacity and knowledge in five thematic areas—conflict resolution, energy, food security, health, and migration, with special attention to the cross-cutting issue of climate change. By incorporating field-based research, strategic partnerships, and online collaboration, the Africa Initiative is undertaking a truly interdisciplinary and multi-institutional approach to Africa’s governance challenges. Work on the core areas of the initiative focus on supporting innovative research and researchers, and developing policy recommendations as they relate to the program’s core thematic areas. »

domingo, 14 de outubro de 2012

The State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013: The Prosperity of Cities (UN-HABITAT)





The State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013: The Prosperity of Cities
(UN-HABITAT, Sep.. 2012)


 
 
 

Development actors need to explore a more inclusive notion of prosperity and development, finds new UN-Habitat report The State of the World’s Cities 2012/2013: The Prosperity of Cities.
According to the report, there is a need for a shift in attention around the world in favour of a
MORE ROBUST NOTION OF DEVELOPMENT – one that looks beyond the narrow domain of economic growth that has dominated ill-balanced policy agendas over the last decades, and includes other vital dimensions such as quality of life, adequate infrastructures, equity and environmental sustainability.
"In this Report, UN-Habitat advocates for a new type of city – the city of the 21st century – that is a „good‟, people-centred city," said Dr Joan Clos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN-Habitat. "The cities of the future should be ones that are capable of integrating the tangible and more intangible aspects of prosperity, in the process shedding off the inefficient, unsustainable forms and functionalities of the city of the previous century or so and becoming the engine rooms of growth and development."
The CITY OF THE 21ST CENTURY:
 Reduces disaster risks and vulnerabilities for the poor and build resilience to adverse forces of nature.
 Creates harmony between the five dimensions of prosperity and enhances the prospects for a better future.
 Stimulates local job creation, promotes social diversity, maintains a sustainable environment and recognizes the importance of public spaces.
 Comes with a change of pace, profile and urban functions and provides the social, political and economic conditions of prosperity.

Joburg GDS 2040 Strategy _ "Johannesburg – a World Class African City of the Future"



 

 


«We've developed a growth and development strategy to take us into 2040. It is a strategy that not only provides a vision of the future, but importantly, defines clear outcomes against which to measure progress.

The GDS (Growth-Development-Strategy) outreach process has been of great importance in building a collective and shared vision for the future of Johannesburg. In the process, we have all managed to express our concerns, fears, hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future city of Johannesburg – with these reflected as points of common agreement within this GDS itself. We all want to live in a great city – a city that inspires everyone to achieve more than is immediately possible.

These aspirations are expressed in the vision developed from the outreach process – a vision the City chooses to adopt for the path ahead: "Johannesburg – a World Class African City of the Future – a vibrant, equitable African city, strengthened through its diversity; a city that provides real quality of life; a city that provides sustainability for all its citizens; a resilient and adaptive society."»

Un modèle francophone pour les projets d'eau et d'assainissement

 

Urban youth and post-conflict Africa: On policy priorities

 
Urban youth and post-conflict Africa: On policy priorities

Utas, Mats
The Nordic Africa Institute, Conflict, Displacement and Transformation

Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence Case Study of Kigali, Rwanda

Moncef Kartas and Oliver Jütersonke

Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies



Technology and Cities: What Type of Development Is Appropriate for Cities of the South?

Technology and Cities: What Type of Development Is Appropriate for Cities of the South?

Jean-Claude Bolay and Abigaıl Kern
 

African Yearbook of Rhetoric



The African Yearbook of Rhetoric (ISSN: 2220-2188) is a multi-lingual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the development of rhetoric studies on, and in Africa. Some special issues are released under the imprint of The Elephant and the Obelisk.  From October 2012 the Yearbook is freely accessible on this site.  The copyright to all materials is held by AfricaRhetoric Publishing and downloads made for public usage must be acknowledged.


List of Volumes

Vol. 1, Gender Rhetoric: North-South, September 2010.

Vol. 2, 1, Rhetorics of justice in post-societies, July 2011.

Vol. 2, 2 Under the Baobab. To Honour Stuart Saunders on his Eightieth Birthday, under the imprint of The Elephant and the Obelisk, August 2011.

Vol. 2, 3, The Great Liberation Speeches of Africa, December 2011.

Vol. 3, 1, Surveillance/Rhetorics, March 2012.

 Vol. 3, 2, New Beginnings: Argentina and South Africa, June 2012.

 Vol. 3, 3, Diplomatic Rhetoric in the South, November 2012.

Vol. 4, 1, Rhetoric of Statecraft in Africa, March 2013



Vol.2, no.3, 2011, - "Great Speeches of Africa's Liberation" includes articles on Eduardo Mondlane and Samora Machel.

URBAN PORTAL



 
 
«The Urban Portal (http://urbanportal.org) is an online gateway to the latest research, events, and resources in urban social science. With a particular focus on urban research at the University of Chicago and efforts to translate that research for broader audiences, the Urban Portal highlights the urban scholarship of University of Chicago faculty and the many research units on campus. The Urban Portal also contains a current list of workshops and events at the University of Chicago.
To help connect scholars to urban research occurring in other settings, the Urban Portal offers a robust array of tools to assist researchers and students, including a comprehensive list of urban-related datasets; constantly updated reports on new and noteworthy developments in urban research or policy; links to journals; details about conference events worldwide; and other resources of interest to scholars, journalists, and policy makers. The Portal is a core project of the University of Chicago Urban Network, an emerging community of scholars and others that aims to spur innovation in the study of urban processes and to encourage interdisciplinary discourse in urban research, theory, and policy.»