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WATER RESILIENCE IN A CHANGING URBAN CONTEXT - Africa's Challenge and Pathways for Action

21 Jul 2021

We are also grateful to the interviewees from the water utilities, public cities in Africa, particularly through linking and agencies, and civil society organizations in Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Kampala, and building livelihoods and active engagement of Nairobi who provided information to the researchers and authors. [...] To 50 percent and 80 percent of urban populations in secure future economic growth and community Sub-Saharan Africa lack access to safely managed health in Africa and to build back better from water and sanitation, respectively (WHO and COVID-19, it is imperative that water resilience UNICEF 2017). [...] It should sharpen the neglect, overexploitation, and pollution the focus on the most socially vulnerable groups, of water resources, as management and lease tackling social and political barriers that leave contracts gave little incentive to invest in water groups such as informal dwellers, women, children, source protection in the long-term (Barraqué and tenants, and minorities most exposed to wa. [...] regional water sources has continued to worsen Scholars note that any transition, or “leapfrog,” for urban water challenges and highlights the need African cities must center social infrastructure and for cities and regional authorities to coordinate on the enabling role of governance and institutions water management. [...] Increase government decision-making to account water connections, across jurisdictions and funding and develop for hydrologically linked aordability, and availability agencies for more flexible financing mechanisms to regions and climate risk for the most socially and adaptive governance improve local- and vulnerable basin-level water resilience B.

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