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Desmond Achebe

Stakeholder Engagement Correspondent

Desmond Achebe

Stakeholder Engagement Correspondent

Desmond Achebe reports on grassroots and civil-society participation in urban development. He has covered community-led upgrading across East and West Africa for more than a decade.

Constituencies

Aging in place, in cities: the Older Persons PCG and the case it won

November 5, 2019 · Desmond Achebe

Nearly 60 percent of the world's older population lives in cities. The Older Persons PCG, approved in Prague in 2016, made sure the New Urban Agenda noticed.

Sixteen seats, not nine: how GAP widened the table at Habitat III

September 3, 2018 · Desmond Achebe

The traditional settlement gave nine seats to Agenda 21 Major Groups and three to Other Stakeholders. GAP asked for sixteen, one per constituency, and got them.