Urban Development Media Scan – 19 October 2017

USAID

  1. Note to Stakeholders and Prospective Applicants for USAID-funded Grants under the Municipal Waste Recycling Program
  2. United States Partners with Sri Lanka to Protect Oceans by Improving Waste Management

Global

  1. Beyond aid: Insights from Social Capital Markets on achieving the SDGs (10/17/17)
    Source: Devex
  2. Urban Diets and Nutrition: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Policy Action (10/18/17)
    Source: All Africa
  3. Cities Should Think About Trees as Public Health Infrastructure (10/18/17)
    Source: Living Architecture Monitor
  4. Petropolis to Ecopolis: Can Emerging Market Cities Become Sustainable? (10/18/17)
    Source: Frontera

Africa

  1. In Madagascar, plague outbreak now threatens largest cities (10/16/17)
    Source: Washington Post
  2. Monrovia in the spotlight: can this fragile city ever really replace ‘Ma Ellen’? (10/12/17)
    Source: The Guardian
  3. Opinion: How to build flood resilience and avoid human tragedy (10/12/17)
    Source: Devex
  4. Private and public sectors still entrenching urban sprawl, says UCT professor (10/18/17)
    Source: EProp

Asia

  1. In Jakarta, solving problems with new tech tools and people power (10/12/17)
    Source: Citiscope
  2. Taking back the streets of Shanghai (10/12/17)
    Source: Citiscope
  3. After an August drenching, Karachi confronts rising flood risk (10/18/17)
    Source: Zilient
  4. Tashkent City: is ‘progress’ worth the price being paid in Uzbekistan? (10/18/17)
    Source: The Guardian

Middle East

  1. Cairo ‘most dangerous’ megacity for women – survey (10/16/17)
    Source: BBC
  2. Refugees reshape Jordan’s urban landscape – report (10/9/17)
    Source: The Jordan Times

LAC

  1. Localizing SDGs Event Showcases Colombia’s SDG Implementation Planning (10/12/17)
    Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development

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