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?
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
The Latest Trends: The Urban Governance Implications of African Urbanisation
Authors: Amy Weimann, Warren Smit, Martin Magidi & Babette Safougne Understanding the African urban context has never been as important as it is right now. Between 1950 and 2018, Africa’s urban population experienced a staggering growth of 515 million people,...