MCI is pleased to announce the upcoming Kumasi Investment Roadshow, an event to promote investment opportunities in Kumasi, Ghana, in areas such as real estate development, agriculture and agri-business. The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is organizing the event, with the support of the Regional Partnership to Promote Trade and Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa, an initiative… read more

This week, Kumasi, Ghana, became the first Millennium City to launch a website dedicated to attracting productive private investment, both foreign and local. For most investors, InvestinKumasi.com will provide a crucial first contact with the Kumasi City Investment Promotion Unit (KCIPU). A division of theKumasi Metropolitan Administration (KMA), KCIPU grew out of the Regional Partnership to Promote… 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

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Ghana National Development Planning Reports Demographic & Migration Studies Literature Land Policy Literature Economic Studies Related to Urbanization Accra Spatial Planning Literature Transportation Sector Literature Housing/Shelter Literature Water & Sanitation Sector Literature Solid Waste Management Sector Literature Public Health-Related Literature Gender Issues/Studies Literature Literature on Politics, Governance, Institutions etc. Ghana National Development… read more

MCI worked with local officials to help Louga finalize its strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by the universally embraced target date of 2015. Needs assessments were completed (in French and English) in the arenas of gender, public health and education, with a water/sanitation needs assessment produced in 2013, in time for a stakeholders’ workshop MCI… read more

14 Food Vendors Get Educated on Food Safety Spy Ghana December 8, 2014 “MCI Hands Over Renovated Community Youth Centre” Ghana Web July 21, 2014 “Kumasi Awash with Business Opportunities” AllAfrica.com May 5, 2014 “Kumasi investment roadshow slated Oct. 8th” GhanaWeb August 28, 2013 “Tabora Set to be West Tanzania Next Investment Spot” TanzaniaInvest July… read more

First established by scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) with initial funding from The Earth Institute, the Bamboo Bike Project approached MCI to help identify potential local investors to establish factories that make low-cost, high quality, locally produced bamboo bikes that could be widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa. Because bamboo is grown locally… read more

The Millennium Cities Initiative begins its engagement in each city by conducting detailed research to assess the level of service delivery in the MDG-related areas of education, gender equality, public health and water/sanitation. A series of sector-specific Excel-based costing models developed by the UN Millennium Project are used in conducting the needs assessments.  National governments have… read more

Endorsed by 192 nations, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were the world’s time-bound and quantifiable targets for halving extreme poverty by 2015. The eight Goals included: Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality Goal 5: Improve… read more

Recently Published Research: Blantyre Health Needs Assessment This study gives an account of the public health challenges facing Malawi’s commercial and industrial capital city and provides potential solutions to help Blantyre improve public health for all residents.       Kisumu MDG-based Household Survey Key findings from the Millennium Cities Initiative’s MDG Multi-Sector Household Survey… read more