Evidence‐informed decision‐making to spur action

African cities research consortium (ACRC) seeks to address the complex challenges that hinder urban development. It acknowledges that different actors and political interplays influence the shape of urban development, and that these agencies can either enable or suppress urban reforms. The Nairobi research teams have worked through a co-production model of conducting research and identifying the city's priority complex problems hindering economic development. A priority complex problem, in the context of this research, is a process that is impeding poverty reduction and/or economic development and/or exacerbating the climate emergency. ACRC is particularly interested in processes related to the political economy and associated political relations, as well as system failures, especially those related to a lack of system integration.

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