ADD Building, State House Road P.O. Box 30197 0010-Nairobi, KENYA Phone: +254-708427153 E-mail: curla@uonbi.ac.ke Website: curla.uonbi.ac.ke CALL FOR GRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS PROPOSALS: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES IN AFRICA The Centre for Urban-Rural Linkages in Africa (CURLA) is a regional Centre of excellence for urban-rural linkages (URL). CURLA aims […]
call for applications digital solutions and E-commerce Applications are invited for the following position: CALL FOR GRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS (1 POST) The Assignment: TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY PAPER ON DIGITAL AND E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS FOR STRENGTHENING URBAN-RURAL LINKAGES THROUGH FOOD VALUE CHAINS AND TERRITORIAL RESILIENCE The Centre for Urban-Rural Linkages in Africa (CURLA) was[…..]
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The seven articles in this SPECIAL ISSUE of THE HABITAT REVIEW JOURNAL VOLUME 18 ISSUE 1 are results of research that under Covid-19 Impacts on Food Transportation and other Commodities in Urban-Rural Nexus (Covid-19 ITFCURN) Project in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria (Niger State), Senegal and Zimbabwe. University of Nairobi and UN-HABITAT collaborated in in the project,[…..]
The central message of this report is that Kenya Government has, since 1963, when the country became an independent nation, committed to removing regional development imbalances. Some of such initiatives by government include construction of trunk transport and communication networks throughout the country, and designation of urban and service centres where rural communities could access[…..]
Many development practitioners have, until recently, viewed urban and rural areas as two mutually exclusive territories. However, this does not reflect the realities of the spatial and sectoral linkages between urban and rural areas. The two territories are two ends of a continuum of human settlements which are spatially and functionally interconnected and interdependent through[…..]
Policies are key instruments that guide the direction and decisions being taken in a country or institution. The role of research in influencing policy is often overlooked, yet when properly applied, research evidence through production of policy briefs could change processes and programmes in a positive way. Policy briefs are meant to address specific gaps[…..]