Ending Poverty: Strengthening Urban Container Gardening

The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty the Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty

Ending Rural Poverty: Challenges and Opportunities

fastest and most widespread retreat of poverty, hunger, premature death and illiteracy in history. Most of those affected were the rural poor of the developing world. However, large rural areas, containing hundreds of millions of people, remain trapped in poverty; since  its retreat has been much slower. This report has explored the nature of the rural poor; who they are; where they are; wh...

Strengthening Urban Resilience

Despite the composed ‘predict and provide’ attitude displayed in the National Urban Policy Paper towards change in Australian Cities, our cities have been more vulnerable to an increasing range of events and trends. The experience of the last year alone is a clear indicator that prediction along traditional lines is an increasingly unreliable way of managing cities. Instead, planning policy and...

Strengthening accountability for urban services

This article explores participatory governance in the context of participatory mechanisms of accountability for urban services. In the past few years, accountability has become a buzzword internationally and, as is the case with many such terms, there is confusion as to what exactly is meant. The people and organizations promoting accountability view it as critical to solving problems with urba...

Community-led approaches to ending food insecurity and poverty