| Urban and Rural Change The
DFID Urban Rural Change Team, which supported this Hot Topic, has closed. From
January 2006 this Hot Topic will be simmering, with less frequent updates.
DFID staff can access materials from the work of the Urban
Rural Change Team via the Insight pages HERE
Urban
and rural areas are increasingly linked and are undergoing wide-reaching and fundamental
processes of change. Many poor households have both rural and urban components
to their livelihoods, as family members live and work in different places. Seeing
'rural' and 'urban' poverty as distinct can be misleading and can lead to inappropriate
planning, development and investment. Bringing the two together provides new insight
into urban rural linkages to inform more integrated policy and organisational
structures and systems. A number of organisations are looking at this issue, including
DFID's Urban and Rural Change team. There
are a number of key challenges for development policy and practice:
- To understand
urban and rural change processes and their implications, maximising opportunities
for the poor and managing risks;
- To
understand how location affects poverty;
- To
take a more integrated approach to rural and urban development
This
section of the site shares knowledge, experiences and lessons in relation to these
challenges to encourage debate and stimulate change.
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| Urban
and Rural Change Lessons
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Urban
Rural Issues Sheets
The
Urban Bias DOC
The Urbanisation of Poverty
DOC
Livelihoods in Peri-urban
Areas DOC
The Urban Transition
DOC |
| Five
Rural-Urban Projects from IIED
(Tanzania, Mali, Nigeria, India, Vietnam) Four completed and
one ongoing project highlighting case study lessons. |
| The
Politics of Urban and Rural Change
(Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, India, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam,
Cambodia) Carole Rakodi, 2004. Powerpoint presentation key political
issues raised by patterns of spatial change and mobility. |
| Critical
review of the role of small and intermediate urban centres in national, regional
and local economies of developing countries.
Reviews the role of small and intermediate urban centres in supporting local economic
development, improving services and widening ‘good governance’, and
in reducing rural and urban poverty | | Country
Case Studies on Rural and Urban Change
(India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Malawi and Kenyal)
Studies of patterns of urban and rural change within each country and the state
of the agricultural sector | | Urban-Rural
Interrelationship for Sustainable Environment (Ethiopia,
Kenya) Conference report and presentations |
| World
Bank Rural Week
(India, West Africa) Presentations. Key words: policy; economic
development; | | UNDP
Rural Urban Partnership Project
(Nepal) Project Lessons. Keywords: enterprise ; ICTs; social
mobilisation; service delivery. |
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Multidisciplinary Approach to attacking poverty in Bangladesh
– looking at rural-urban linkages collaboratively. (Bangladesh)
Jelena Pantelic, World Bank. March 2000. Powerpoint presentation PPT;
Rural-Urban synergies note DOC;
Case study annex DOC. |
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Urban
and Rural Change Past Events
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| World
Urban Forum III, Vancouver, Canada. June
19-23rd 2006. Keep an eye on the website.
Registration starts in October. | | Marrakech
Declaration: Urban-Rural Interrelationship for Sustainable Development
Oucome of the FIG (International Federation of Surveyors) Urban-Rural Interrelationship
for Sustainable Environment Conference, 2003 (details)
Launched at UN-HABITAT Inter-regional Conference, 1-4 October 2004 (details)
PDF
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Urban Forum - Outputs UN HABITAT 13-17 Sept 2004, Bacelona, Spain.
Details
| | "Looking
at urban and rural change: DFID launches into Space" Workshop
for DFID staff, May 7, 2004. Background
/ Summary |
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Urban
and Rural Change Papers
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Mind
the Gap: How to Improve Rural-Urban Linkages to Reduce Poverty.Global
Donor Platform Policy Brief No.1, 2007 HTML
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Mapping
Global Urban and Rural Population Distributions
Mirella Salvatore, Francesca Pozzi, Ergin Ataman, Barbara Huddleston
and Mario Bloise, FAO, 2005 PDF
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Searching
for Security: Urban Livelihoods in Kabul
Stefan
Schuette,AREU, April 2006 PDF |
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Beyond
Rural Urban: Keeping up with Changing Realities.
James Garret. IFPRI. 2005. HTML
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Understanding
Labour Markets and Poverty Reduction: How may regional and
spatial perspectives help?
A report for the Urban Rural Change Team DFID by Rachel Phillipson,
April, 2005 DOC
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Livelihoods,
Growth, and Links to Market Towns in 15 Ethiopian Villages Stefan
Dercon and John Hoddinott IFPRI FCND Discussion Paper 194, July
2005 PDF / Brief
PDF |
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Livelihood
Diversification and Rural-Urban Linkages in Vietnam's Red River
Delta
Hoang Xuan Thanh, Dang Nguyen Anh, and Cecilia Tacoli, IFPRI
FCND Discussion Paper 193, June 2005 HTML
/ Brief PDF |
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Market
Institutions: Enhancing the Value of Rural-Urban Links
Shyamal Chowdhury, Asfaw Negassa, and Maximo Torero IFPRI FCND
Discussion Paper 195 / MTID Discussion Paper 89, Oct 2005 PDF
/ Brief PDF |
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Migration
and the Rural-Urban Continuum: Evidence from the Rural Philippines
Agnes R. Quisumbing and Scott McNiven IFPRI FCND Discussion
Paper 197, Oct 2005 PDF
/ Brief PDF |
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Rural
and urban change and the role of regaional policy. Lessons from
European experience
Rachel Phillipson, February, 2004 DOC |
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Role
of Women: Urban-Rural Linkages and Household Livelihoods
McIntosh Xaba & Associates February 2005 PDF
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Rural-Urban
Linkages and Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth: An Overview.
Cecilia Tacoli, IIED. For OECD DAC POVNET Agriculture and Pro-Poor
Growth Task Team, 17-18 June
2004. PDF
See also |
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Rural-urban
linkages in sub-Saharan Africa: Contemporary debates and implications
for Kenyan urban workers in the 21st century,
Arne Tostensen 2004. Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working
Paper WP 4) PDF
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Rural
and Urban Dynamics and Poverty. Evidence from China and India
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-Kang, and Anit Mukherjee August 2005
Full Paper PDF
Brief PDF
Abstract HTML
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Urban-Rural
Links and Transformation in Bangladesh: A Review of the Issues
James Garrett and Shyamal Chowdhury. CARE Discussion Paper July
2004 PDF |
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Facts
and Figures on Rural and Urban Change,
Michael Walls, DPU, University College London, June 2004 PDF
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Impact
of International Trade Reform on Urban - Rural Change,
Christopher Stevens, Edward Anderson and Jane Kennan, IDS, May
2004 PDF
Summary PDF
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New
Thinking About Urban and Rural Development
Keynote Paper for DFID Sustainable Development Retreat. Frank
Ellis and Nigel Harris, July 2004 DOC
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Urban-rural
change in South Africa
– lessons from planning and local economic development.
Khanya – managing rural change. June 2004 PDF
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Urban-rural
change, boundary problems and environmental burdens
Gordon McGranahan, David Satterthwaite and Cecilia Tacoli. IIED,
2004 PDF /
DOC |
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The
Links Between Urban and Rural Development,
Editor's Introduction from Environnment and Urbanisation Vol
15, No 1. 2003. Cecilia Tacoli PDF
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Rural-Urban
Linkages.
DFID Key Sheets for Sustainable Livelihoods, No 10. July 2002,
ODI. PDF |
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Mind
the gap! Bridging the rural-urban divide.
Insights Issue 41, May 2002, IDS. PDF |
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Seeking
an understanding of poverty that recognizes rural-urban differences
and rural-urban linkages.
David Satterthwaite, IIED. No date. DOC
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Understanding
linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources
Ann Gordon; Junior Davis; Andrew Long, NRI, 2000 Summary |
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Rural
- Urban interactions: a guide to the literature.
Cecilia Tacoli, 1998. Environment and Urbanization Vol 10, No
1 147-166. PDF |
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