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ACTUS

ACcelerating Transition in Peri-Urban areaS in East Africa

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Project "ACTUS" data sheet

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Coordinator
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT 

Organization address
address: KAROLINENPLATZ 5
city: DARMSTADT
postcode: 64289
website: www.tu-darmstadt.de

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 Coordinator Country Germany [DE]
 Project website http://actus.wastestudies.com/
 Total cost 219˙693 €
 EC max contribution 219˙693 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-GF
 Starting year 2016
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2016-01-01   to  2018-12-31

 Partnership

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# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT DE (DARMSTADT) coordinator 219˙693.00
2    ARDHI UNIVERSITY TZ (DAR ES SALAAM) partner 0.00

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 Project objective

Behind statements and statistics about newly urbanized populations in Africa, behind maps of rapid and unregulated growth and numerous disaster/risk assessments there are real people with compelling tales of coping and adapting capacities to urban challenges brought by the rapid transformation of cities. Their stories often contain more hope, ambition and imagination as portrayed in reports and scientific publications. Their ability to bounce back despite disadvantageous ecological, economic and political settings implies a new form of normality framed outside traditional city development models. ACTUS is concerned with people's everyday experiences of solid waste and sanitation in peri-urban areas to discern the interdependences between urban infrastructure, pro-poor growth and climate hazards. In ACTUS I place a particular focus on local processes of adaptation and self-organization to cope with increasing flooding impacts in East Africa. The lens of everyday experiences of waste management and sanitation offers an innovative approach to expend our understanding on multiple spheres of livelihoods considering how local processes and technologies may act as a benefit for the poor and may trigger sustainable technical infrastructure ACTUS is not a 'stand alone research project. It is designed to run complementary to a PhD program on 'Urban Infrastructure in transition: The case of African cities from the Graduate School of urban Studies at TU Darmstadt. The benefit of such close collaboration lies in the breath of knowledge I will gain not only within my specific research project but also through regular exchanges with a multidisciplinary group of scholars focusing on urban infrastructure regimes in Africa.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2017 Nathalie Jean-Baptiste and Wilbard Kombe
Opportunities and Barriers for Research and Actions in Climate Change Adaptation in Tanzania
published pages: 479-499, ISSN: , DOI:
Climate Change Research at Universities Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges 2020-02-06

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