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In carrying out its objectives, UPC aims at providing researched and innovative evidence-based solutions to urban and rural development and community challenges. In order to achieve that, our work currently focuses on the following core programmes
The Liveable Cities program improves the quality of cities and towns by ensuring access for the most vulnerable to healthy transport, healthy foods, parks and public spaces. As more people move to urban areas the quality of life in cities and towns has major impacts on health and the environment. Tanzania, like other low and middle-income countries, is facing important challenges as a result of the growth of cities and towns. As the country tackles these major urban development challenges, it is important to ensure that cities and town are liveable. A liveable city is well designed and compact. It allows people to walk to school and work, to stores, parks and restaurants. It permits them to take transit to places outside of their neighbourhoods, and provides them with access to sanitation, water, clean air, safe affordable housing and healthy foods.
It is widely acknowledged that urban policies and laws are vital machinery for governing, planning, managing and financing our urban areas and making them livable. For that reason, urban policies and laws are expected to be practical, responsive and scalable while protecting the right of all citizens to live and work in a city. They must be used as tools to improve the quality of life, livelihoods, governance and social fabric in our urban areas. Given the projected rate and scale of urban growth and lived experiences of climate change in Tanzania, there is a need to interrogate our governance apparatus. UPC will conduct applied research on any relevant policy area that affect every day urban life and advocate for efficient urban systems and governance and liveability of urban space
This programme is set to design activities or events for influence, persuasion and encouragement to gain support with regards to a particular urban policy/ law or intervention. This will be done on the principles of participatory approaches to governance. Activities will include: awareness campaigns, information workshops, engaging the media through editorial pieces, or submitting brief position papers, and making oral presentations to a target group.
Many poor cities and towns in Tanzania are unprepared and lack the capabilities to meet the challenges of rapid urbanisation. In Tanzania urbanisation is taking place in the absence of industrialisation, lower rates of economic growth, fewer employment opportunities, extreme poverty and various socio-economic settings; this is ironically named urbanisation of poverty. Through this Programme, UPC will design innovative projects based on research and best practices to help in sustaining the livelihoods of poor urban dwellers and promote community initiatives.
Urban growth unfolds rapidly in an unplanned and uncontrolled manner in many parts of the country, this is directly associated with increased urban health problems, unmet demands for urban infrastructure and services, and the expansion of informal settlements. Urban planning is one of the instruments that Tanzanian urban local governments rely on to plan for infrastructure provision such as land for housing development and basic services. While UPC will be working hands-in-hands with local governments in facilitating upgrading of the existing unplanned settlements, much of the innovations will be focused on taming the growth of new informal and facilitating legal land access in both urban and rural areas.
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Transforming Urban and Rural Development Through Applied Research