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Advancing Gender in the Environment: Gender and Urban Services

Rapid urbanization shifts social, economic, and political dynamics, with particular impacts on women’s empowerment and gender equality. Expanding cities offer a range of urban development opportunities for eradicating poverty and building inclusive, sustainable communities. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Maldives Fact Sheet

As an island nation, the Maldives faces a unique set of challenges in managing a rapidly growing volume of waste across its more than 1,200 islands. The country’s dispersed geography, limited land for waste storage, its densely populated capital city, and a host of other unique challenges require the Maldives… Read More

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Multiple Benefits Assessment Framework for Low Emissions Development Projects: A How-to Guide

One of the challenges that policymakers face in promoting and justifying low emissions development (LED) or ‘green economy’ projects is effectively articulating and quantifying the positive socio-economic benefits that LED projects produce. Read More

Clean Air Catalyst Fact Sheet – Nairobi, Kenya

Kenya’s capital city Nairobi, has experienced accelerated growth in both population and economic output in the last two decades driven by its role as an international and regional hub for commerce, transport, regional cooperation, and economic development. Its population has increased from 1.4 million in the 1990s to more than… Read More

CCBO Initial Solid Waste Management Assessment Dominican Republic

The assessment’s main objectives were to assess existing SWM programs in the Province of Samaná, with the goal of identifying processes, or the lack of, that are the cause of marine plastic pollution— which will ultimately inform the program’s Year One Work Plan. Read More

Making Cities Work Assessment and Implementation Toolkit: Municipal Finance

Municipal finance has an impact on development in several different ways, so it is natural that USAID missions may want to provide assistance to improve the way that municipal finance functions. Read More

Land Tenure Dynamics in Peri-Urban Zambia

Peri-urban growth in Zambia faces particular challenges due to the interface of state and customary land administration systems with different stakeholders using land under leasehold and customary tenure regimes. Read More

Urban Development Timeline

Rapid urbanization is one of the most important demographic trends of this century. USAID’s success in achieving our core development objectives—eliminating extreme poverty, reducing hunger, improving health, addressing climate change, and fostering democratic, resilient societies— will greatly depend on how we respond to urbanization. Urbanization creates challenges, but it also offers unparalleled opportunities prosperity. Read More