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Good Practice in Core Areas Development.
Starting in mid 1997, this programme provided guidelines for both urban design and frameworks, including urban management and finance tools, to facilitate the integrated and balanced development of commercial core areas of rapidly growing cities in the developing world. The good practice guide and associated software tools will enable low-income communities to live close to the source of their livelihoods within commercial centres of these cities. This research is being conducted in partnership with researchers in India, Indonesia and Brazil. (Completion date: April 2001)
To see the project web site

Improving Knowledge Transfer
The aim of the research has been to improve research communication between the researcher and each of the principle interest groups in the urban development process. There has been an emphasis on how the poor learn and communicate, and the ways in which they could access existing and new knowledge on community development. (Completion date: April 2001)
To see the project web site

Community Asset Management 1 and 2
The focus of these two research projects is on building capacity for the management, life-time planning and physical maintenance of community assets in the built environment. Given the poverty focus of the research, the immediate interest is in livelihood assets - those that ensure the basic economic needs of poor communities are met. The research is being conducted in partnership with the Human Settlements Management Institute in Delhi, India, and with commonwealth professional associations in South Africa, Kenya and Malawi. (Completion date: March 2005)
To see the project web site

Mapping Urbanisation for urban & regional governance
The project examines how remote sensing and other low cost spatial data sets can be related to partial or out of date local data and survey information. The aim is to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use methodology for mapping urbanisation to inform poverty-focused, local and regional development strategies, improve local planning practice and provide a common basis for defining urban areas.
To see the project web site

Tracing the Experience and Movement of Poor Households over the Long Term
This Feasibility Study has been carried out in Kaduna, Nigeria. It is part of a wider study titled and is led by the Development Planning Unit, University College London who carried out a similar study in Lusaka. Both of these studies form the basis of a wider proposal to undertake an examination ‘in depth’ of the Long Term Sustainability of Poverty Reduction Programmes, which will be examined at a conference of researchers world wide on similar studies to reach a common methodology. This will become a standard for a wide series of longitudinal studies planned to be funded by the World Bank over the coming years.
To see the project web site

Localising the Habitat Agenda
The Habitat Agenda is the internationally agreed framework for urban policies, providing a key tool for urban poverty reduction through local development. The aim of this research is to explore the most effective forms of practice in local development for urban poverty reduction. It is being conducted in partnership with researchers in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Pakistan. (Completion date: September 2004) The City Poverty Website has been built as part of this project.

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		Current and recent Research Projects

		Good Practice in Core Areas Development. Starting in mid 1997, this programme provided guidelines for both urban design and frameworks, including urban management and finance tools, to facilitate the integrated and balanced development of commercial core areas of rapidly growing cities in the developing world. The good practice guide and associated software tools will enable low-income communities to live close to the source of their livelihoods within commercial centres of these cities. This research is being conducted in partnership with researchers in India, Indonesia and Brazil. (Completion date: April 2001) To see the project web site

		Improving Knowledge Transfer The aim of the research has been to improve research communication between the researcher and each of the principle interest groups in the urban development process. There has been an emphasis on how the poor learn and communicate, and the ways in which they could access existing and new knowledge on community development. (Completion date: April 2001) To see the project web site

		Community Asset Management 1 and 2 The focus of these two research projects is on building capacity for the management, life-time planning and physical maintenance of community assets in the built environment. Given the poverty focus of the research, the immediate interest is in livelihood assets - those that ensure the basic economic needs of poor communities are met. The research is being conducted in partnership with the Human Settlements Management Institute in Delhi, India, and with commonwealth professional associations in South Africa, Kenya and Malawi. (Completion date: March 2005) To see the project web site

		Mapping Urbanisation for urban & regional governance The project examines how remote sensing and other low cost spatial data sets can be related to partial or out of date local data and survey information. The aim is to develop a low-cost, easy-to-use methodology for mapping urbanisation to inform poverty-focused, local and regional development strategies, improve local planning practice and provide a common basis for defining urban areas. To see the project web site

		Tracing the Experience and Movement of Poor Households over the Long Term This Feasibility Study has been carried out in Kaduna, Nigeria. It is part of a wider study titled and is led by the Development Planning Unit, University College London who carried out a similar study in Lusaka. Both of these studies form the basis of a wider proposal to undertake an examination ‘in depth’ of the Long Term Sustainability of Poverty Reduction Programmes, which will be examined at a conference of researchers world wide on similar studies to reach a common methodology. This will become a standard for a wide series of longitudinal studies planned to be funded by the World Bank over the coming years. To see the project web site

		Localising the Habitat Agenda The Habitat Agenda is the internationally agreed framework for urban policies, providing a key tool for urban poverty reduction through local development. The aim of this research is to explore the most effective forms of practice in local development for urban poverty reduction. It is being conducted in partnership with researchers in Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Pakistan. (Completion date: September 2004) The City Poverty Website has been built as part of this project.