Guide

Building Resilient Infrastructure

As climate change becomes more significant, it is more necessary than ever that climate is considered as a factor when designing our cities and infrastructure. This guide includes a variety of examples, case studies, and principles that can help decision makers understand where and how resilient infrastructure can be implemented,… Read More

Investing in Waste Management and Recycling with a Gender Lens

This guide offers a business case, framework, examples, case studies, and tools that can help commercial and impact investors in the waste management and recycling sector to integrate a gender lens in their activities. Read More

The Building Blocks of a Circular Economy & the 3Rs

A systems approach to reducing ocean plastics… Read More

USAID Climate Strategy 2022-2030 Resource Page

USAID has developed a new Climate Strategy that will guide its work through 2030. This new Strategy takes a “whole-of-Agency” approach that calls on all corners of USAID to play a part in the response. USAID will work on the ground with partner governments and local actors to set the global trajectory toward a vision of a resilient, prosperous, and equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Read More

How to Implement Transit-Oriented Development

This guide is intended primarily for planners and decision makers as they plan out urban development that maximizes proximity of housing, jobs, services, and amenities to public transit hubs. Car-dependence has a variety of negative health, safety, climate, and equity impacts. With this guide, planners can help design effective, transit-oriented… Read More

Integrating Climate Adaptation: A Toolkit for Urban Planners and Adaptation Practitioners

Climate change and its effects have become increasingly relevant challenges to global urban environments. This resource provides a good roadmap of the challenges that climate change poses to cities, as well as potential mitigations. Readers such as development banks, planners and decision makers can gain greater insight on the relationship… Read More

Handbook for Gender-Inclusive Urban Planning and Design

This guide is relevant for policymakers, researchers, activists, community workers, and organizations working in gender, urban planning, and transportation sectors. Most cities’ designs center on able-bodied men than they do for women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and people with disabilities. This spans everything from public restroom availability to wheelchair… Read More

Sector Environmental Guideline: Solid Waste

The purpose of this document is to support the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process for common USAID sectoral development activities. Read More

Streets for Walking and Cycling

This guide highlights strategies that African cities can use to ensure that city infrastructure is able to accomodate pedestrians and cyclists. Walking and cycling are highly prevalent modes of transportation in African cities, and yet many do not have the infrastructure necesarry to make these trips safe and comfortable. This… Read More