In this article, Ivan Turok explores two local drivers of Rwanda’s socio-economic development: community participation and a positive approach to urbanisation and argues there is scope for greater alignment between top-down and bottom-up processes.

These new images taken during a recent research trip to Rwanda provide a glimpse into daily life in Rwanda’s neighbourhoods. Reflections illustrate how different, but sometimes similar, the neighbourhoods are to researchers’ home towns in Bangladesh.

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