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On homes in Lilongwe.

This post features edited excerpts from my recent report Survey of Urban Poor Settlements in Lilongwe, produced by ActionAid Malawi and the Lilongwe Urban Poor People’s Network. Semi-permanent housing...

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Make your own metro.

Think you can develop a system that transports 2,000 passengers in St Petersburg over 73 days? It took some training, but last night I was immensely pleased with myself for breaking the 2,000...

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Solar power for better water.

My latest article for urb.im looks at how solar technology could help in providing access to potable water for poor communities in Lilongwe. Regulations may however stand in the way of expansion of...

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#GetInvolved4Dignity – Join the Malawi floods clothes drive

Malawi Floods. Displaced women and children arrive at Sekeni II Camp for flood victims in Chikhwawa District. (Jan. 16, 2015) Photo by Arjan van de Merwe/UNDP licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 The recent...

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Promoting entrepreneurship to combat youth unemployment

Photo courtesy of Chance for Change, a UK-based NGO operating in Malawi. My latest article for urb.im looks at youth unemployment in Malawi. With half of the country’s population below 18 and a fifth...

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Completing the clothes drive.

Following a busy two days of picking up and sorting clothes donations for victims of the Malawi floods as part of the #GetInvolved4Diginity campaign, we today handed over the catch to the Malawi Red...

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Filling a vacuum: Efforts to map and enumerate Lilongwe

My latest for urb.im looks at how civil society actors in Lilongwe are generating their own maps and data to understand urban poverty due to a gap in official statistics. Initiatives include...

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In Helsinki, foodies eat at Streat.

Street food is alive and well in Helsinki. Not only is the city the home of the now global Restaurant Day phenomenon, this week it also hosted the second Streat Helsinki, a celebration of street food...

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“Once you get papers, you become a real person”

The graphic is by the Finnish Immigration Service, available here: http://www.migri.fi/download/57705_2014_tilastograafit_en.pdf?c97a94c6f234d288 0.03% of the world’s refugees live in Finland. You...

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This site is migrating.

Hello trusty followers and people who randomly end up on this site! I’ve just bought my own urbanopolista URL and all content has been moved over there. I’ll keep this up for a while but there won’t...

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