The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, is pleased to announce, in continuation of our work in Ghana’s vibrant capital, the release of our “Accra Community Upgrading Profile: The Nima-Maamobi Drain Area Part 1: Current conditions and perspectives for development and Part 2: Prospects and scenarios for upgrading and development.” The drain running through the neighborhoods… read more

The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, is delighted to announce, as part of our work in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the release of our “Korle Gonno Community Upgrading Profile,” a study developed at the request of the Mayor of Accra and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), and carried out in… read more

The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, is delighted to announce the release of “Where There’s a Will, there’s a Way: Four Years Later: Up-scaling Early Childhood Education in Ghana,” a paper written by our partners at The Mount Carmel Training Center (MCTC) in Haifa, Israel. The paper chronicles the origins,… read more

See MCI Director Susan Blaustein’s op-ed in Huffington Post on the importance of literacy, worldwide and here at home: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-m-blaustein/world-read-aloud-day_b_2807458.html

MCI’s latest research publication, “The Kisumu Millennium Development Goals Multi-Sector Household Survey,” was launched in Kisumu, Kenya, on October 16, as part of MCI’s Consultative Stakeholders Workshop. The study, which is the first application of MCI’s own comprehensive, poverty-related household survey instrument, assesses data gathered from over 600 households in three informal downtown settlements in… read more

In October 2012 the Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) facilitated a successful stakeholder workshop in Kisumu, Kenya. More than 80 stakeholders – representing local government, civil society, community-based organizations, NGOs, academia and the private sector – joined the two-day workshop, to review, discuss and validate findings from MCI’s social sector needs assessments and investment publications and… read more

MCI held a training workshop for the Kumasi Technical Committee on Investment (KTCI) October 16-17 in Kumasi, Ghana, as part of the Regional Partnership to Promote Trade and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, an MCI initiative funded by the Government of Finland. The KTCI comprises representatives from the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, Ministry… read more

MCI held a consultative workshop in Tabora, Tanzania, on October 11-12, to review and discuss what should be included in MCI”s forthcoming City Investment Guide to Tabora, developed as part of the Regional Partnership to Promote Trade and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, an MCI initiative funded by the Government of Finland. It was attended by… read more