Lying on the East African coastline with a large natural harbour, Dar es Salaam, the ‘Haven of Peace’, was given its name in 1866 by Majid bin Sayyid, Sultan of Zanzibar. Under German rule, the...
Maiduguri is the largest city in north east Nigeria and the capital of Borno State, which suffers from endemic poverty, and capacity and legitimacy gaps in terms of its governance. The state has been...
Mogadishu is a fragile city, dealing with the legacy of decades of civil war within a political context characterised by unstable elite bargains and an incomplete constitutional transition. These...
We're launching the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] (NCSR+) on October 13th 2021 at 2.00-3.30pm BST. Register for the free launch webinar:...
This week's Manchester Briefing (Issue 42) details our Recovery and Renewal Framework, we explore updates to the framework, its development since April 2020, and how the framework might be applied in...
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 41) examines Financial Technology (FinTech) and Digital Government as policy delivery tools during COVID-19 and how these tools may be used in recovery and...
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 40) launches our searchable database of international lessons on Recovery and Renewal. The new database offers a searchable function for all of the 575...
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 39) details our new international standard ‘ISO/TS 22393 Guidelines for planning Recovery and Renewal’. ISO/TS 22393 provides a framework for how to assess the...
International lessons for local and national government recovery and renewal What is ‘The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19’? The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and...
This week’s Manchester Briefing summarises a further eight COVID-19 research topics that our team are working on, within three areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks...