CDAF Projects - Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods

SHLC CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT ACCELERATION FUND (CDAF)

As part of SHLC’s commitment to extend its work to the capacity strengthening of researchers in the global south, we developed the Capacity Development Acceleration Fund (CDAF). This scheme has supported a visiting research fellowship programme, as well as pilot research, knowledge mobilisation and research management projects, to help tackle urban, health and education challenges in neighbourhoods across fast-growing cities in developing countries.

See further details below of the 19 projects funded:

Between rural and urban: action research in peripheral areas of El Alto de La Paz, Bolivia

Streetside plantain vendor, Colombia. Credit: Flickr Adam Cohn

Promoting Inclusive Governance for Informal Workers in Cali, Colombia

Dar es Salaam’s new bus transit system. Credit: World Bank

Raising Voices through Design Charrette: Contextualization of Bus Rapid Transit Terminals and Stations by Neighbourhood Context and Needs

Symposium on Urban Water Governance, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Mobile-based survey with adolescent boys and girls in Gurugram

Healthy Cities for Adolescents: participatory research in Gurugram, Haryana, India

The Kisenyi Resilience Youth during community sensitization to trigger community engagement.

How to improve understanding of sustainable and healthy neighbourhoods through youth participation in Kisenyi Slum, Kampala, Uganda (Sustainable Neighbourhoods with the Youth: SustaiNY study)

Fieldwork to understand how people adapt to changing land use.

Transformation of agricultural land and waterbodies in rapidly urbanising Bangladesh: recognising the extent of sustainability concerns

Towards more inclusive urban planning in Udon Thani (Thailand) and Nakuru (Kenya)

Lagos, Nigeria. Credit: Flickr, Andrew Moore

Green infrastructure for health promotion within informal neighbourhoods in Lagos and Akure, Nigeria

Strengthening neighbourhood level research capacities for sustainable communities in fast growing Nigerian cities

Participants observe and record their environment.

Age Friendly Cities in the Andean Region– Implementing and Monitoring the Protocol of Vancouver in Colombia

Workshop for urban planners, residents, academics and practitioners in Chattogram

Power of partnership: Voices of residents and city planners as sources of innovation for sustainable urban governance

Connecting the Urban and Peri-urban (CoUP): A transformative policy framework for inclusive and resilient urban development in India

Noapara River Crossing.

Liveable Regional Cities in Bangladesh

Participants during interactive session on Monitoring and Evaluation of Urban Development Programmes. Credit: NIUA

Capacity Building Workshop for Early Career Researchers on Issues and Challenges of the Urban Sector in India