Urban
Governance
Research Lab

Tailored Research for City Visions

The AMALI Urban Governance Research Lab, composed of dedicated researchers, provides participating Mayors and Governors and their teams with tailored and exclusive research and analytics to support their transformation action plans. Additionally, the lab strives to enhance access to urban governance information and relevant research reflections on African cities to support urban governance improvements across the continent.

Support offered to Mayors/Governors

The AMALI GovHub

The AMALI GovHub is live! 

A robust urban governance and city leadership knowledge platform for African cities that seeks to facilitate city-to-city learning while breaking down knowledge and information barriers for a better African urban future. 

It features a comprehensive African city catalogue as well as relevant urban governance knowledge resources and tools.

Visit: https://www.amaligovhub.africa/ and let us know what you think?

 

amali govhub

Urban Governance Research for African Cities

Tailored research assistance and access to urban governance information for African cities are necessary for supporting visionary city leadership in Africa, disseminating learnings amongst cities, and eliminating information bottlenecks.

Our Approach

Research Support

Mayors participating in the AMALI City Leadership Programme have access to synthesised desktop data on their cities and are supported by the Lab’s researchers to fill knowledge gaps tied to the mayors’ visions.

Amali govhub: urban governance knowledge hub for african cities

This publicly accessible online knowledge hub provides in-depth data on city governance and leadership structures; city demographics; urban development and infrastructure data; socioeconomic data; and human development indicators. Our research resources are also accessible via this platform.

Knowledge Sharing

Visually engaging thematic and city-specific outputs allow for city-to-city learning, offering comparative views of participating cities’ data and enhancing city leaders’ access to knowledge for actionable insights.

Resources

Briefs

Welcoming our new AMALI Programme Director

The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) enthusiastically welcomes Jennifer Comalie as the new AMALI Programme Director. Jennifer brings more than 25 years of experience in strategy development, financial management, and urban transformation across the public...

View or download the Brief PDF’s here:

Urban Green Spaces Brief
Solid Waste Management Brief