Bringing Agenda 2030 to life. Africa Sustainable Development Report

This report focuses on the four transformative principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: leave no-one behind; tackle inequalities; integrate environment and development; and promote participation and dialogue. The report uses a bottom-up approach to identify positive examples of sustainable development policies and practices chosen as a result of dialogue between different stakeholders. The report derives from a participatory learning process in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya and Zambia to localise the 2030 Agenda

Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life. Zambia Sustainable Development Report

This report considers four principles which underpin the transformative aspirations of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: ‘leave no-one behind’; ‘tackling inequalities’; ‘integrating the environment and development’ and ‘participation and dialogue’. To explore these principles on the ground, the report considers nine case studies that provide examples that participants in the ‘Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life’ research felt particularly illustrated good policies, projects or processes. These case studies help guide future work and promote forms of transferable learning across sectors. They integrate not only some of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals but the four principles themselves

Bringing Agenda 2030 to life. Sierra Leone Sustainable Development Report

This report considers four principles which underpin the transformative aspirations of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: ‘leave no-one behind’; ‘tackling inequalities’; ‘integrating the environment and development’ and ‘participation and dialogue’. To explore these principles on the ground, the report considers six case studies that provide examples that participants in the ‘Bringing 2030 Agenda to Life’ research felt particularly illustrated good policies, projects or processes. These case studies help guide future work and promote forms of transferable learning across sectors. They integrate not only some of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals but the four principles themselves

Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life. Liberia Sustainable Development Report

This report considers four principles which underpin the transformative aspirations of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: ‘leave no-one behind’; ‘tackling inequalities’; ‘integrating the environment and development’ and ‘participation and dialogue’. To explore these principles on the ground, the report details eight case studies to provide examples that participants in the ‘Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life’ research felt particularly illustrated good policies, projects or processes. The aim of these case studies is to help guide future work and promote forms of transferable learning across sectors. They integrate not only some of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals but the four principles themselves

Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life. Kenya Sustainable Development Report

This report considers four principles which underpin the transformative aspirations of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: ‘leave no-one behind’; ‘tackling inequalities’; ‘integrating the environment and development’ and ‘participation and dialogue’. To explore these principles on the ground, the report considers six (6) case studies that provide examples that participants in the ‘Bringing Agenda 2030 to Life’ research felt particularly illustrated good policies, projects or processes. These case studies help guide future work and promote forms of transferable learning across sectors. They integrate not only stome of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals but the four principles themselves

A comparison of community sponsorship and government-led resettlement of refugees in the UK: Perspectives from newcomers and host communities

This research was conducted by Mahdy Alraie and Hannah Collins under the supervision of Dr Andrea Rigon at University College London (UCL), in partnership with Citizens UK and as part of their MSc in Social Development Practice. It explore two schemes for resettling refugees in the UK from the perspectives of the refugees and the host community. Using a multi-dimensional framework to analyse the process of integration we compare community sponsorship with government-led resettlement. We found that the level of social support in community sponsorship allows for refugees and host communities to better access all dimensions of integration because of the additional support refugees have in navigating the health, housing and education systems. Community sponsorship is a huge undertaking for any community group but it offers a community the opportunity to flourish through an active engagement with diversity. In government-led resettlement we argue that an increase in collaboration between community groups and local councils could enhance the integration process

Modelling shallow landslide susceptibility by means of a subsurface flow path connectivity index and estimates of soil depth spatial distribution

Topographic index-based hydrological models have gained wide use to describe the hydrological control on the triggering of rainfall-induced shallow landslides at the catchment scale. A common assumption in these models is that a spatially continuous water table occurs simultaneously across the catchment. However, during a rainfall event isolated patches of subsurface saturation form above an impeding layer and their hydrological connectivity is a necessary condition for lateral flow initiation at a point on the hillslope. <br><br> Here, a new hydrological model is presented, which allows us to account for the concept of hydrological connectivity while keeping the simplicity of the topographic index approach. A dynamic topographic index is used to describe the transient lateral flow that is established at a hillslope element when the rainfall amount exceeds a threshold value allowing for (a) development of a perched water table above an impeding layer, and (b) hydrological connectivity between the hillslope element and its own upslope contributing area. A spatially variable soil depth is the main control of hydrological connectivity in the model. The hydrological model is coupled with the infinite slope stability model and with a scaling model for the rainfall frequency–duration relationship to determine the return period of the critical rainfall needed to cause instability on three catchments located in the Italian Alps, where a survey of soil depth spatial distribution is available. The model is compared with a quasi-dynamic model in which the dynamic nature of the hydrological connectivity is neglected. The results show a better performance of the new model in predicting observed shallow landslides, implying that soil depth spatial variability and connectivity bear a significant control on shallow landsliding