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Community Organizations Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
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FCDO
International or regional financial institution

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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)  pursuseds national interests and project the UK as a force for good in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK’s security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.

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The urban transition: challenges and opportunities

Journal Articles & Books
Global

Urbanisation and economic transformation - the growth of non-farm, industrial and service sectors - offer many opportunities for improvements in poor people's lives.The crucial challenge is to ensure that places work better for people, providing an enabling and supporting environment for changing livelihoods and economies. But all too often there is a failure to recognise and manage the urban transition, resulting in the continuing urbanisation of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion.

A view from the North. Rural areas in 2016: Vibrant or vacant?

Journal Articles & Books
Somalie
Kenya
Soudan

Two images have dominated the northern media in recent months.The first is of desolation in remote, rural areas in Africa affected by drought, conflict or famine, such as in Somalia, northern Kenya or Darfur, Sudan. The second is a different kind of desolation - that of urban squalor as portrayed in the film «The Constant Gardener». Nairobi's Kibera, which provides a backdrop for the film, is a bustling shantytown with a population of ca.