Dr Gilbert Siame
Funding period: 1 May 2023 – 31 October 2023
Type of funding:
Other Grants
This grant was awarded as a follow-up to Just Urban Futures in Africa.
As USF researchers, we co-organised this international workshop to promote intellectual and policy dialogue on gendered and just urban transitions in Africa. The workshop was designed to contribute to a path-finding dialogue between research and policy on gendered and just urban futures in Africa. We believe that trans-local learning for a just urban Africa can be facilitated between Africa-focused urban research and research on topics that concern gender and justice in urban contexts outside of Africa. Speakers were drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. We were keen to establish and promote networking, mentorship, memories, and exchange among different funding categories of USF scholars to ensure that USF-funded research contributes to an enduring and expanded research-policy dialogue on urban futures. The workshop provided a rare opportunity for participating USF scholars to collectively interface with policy actors and communities in Africa, and to define pathways and opportunities for gendered and just urban transitions. It also served as a platform to start the writing process of a comparative journal article on methodological aspects of just urban transitions in Africa.