ESPON on the road: bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making: ECP Transnational Networking Activity Final Report

The ESPONontheRoad project was a Transnational Networking Activity (TNA) of nineteen ESPON Contact Points with the aim to bring ESPON results closer for decision-making and thus increase the capitalisation of the ESPON Programme. During the relatively short project lifetime of one year, participating ECPs brought ESPON closer to the local and regional level, and to citizens in physical and virtual forms as well. The project built a bridge between the issues on a local level and scientific evidence on EU territorial development policy themes. After taking stock of the most recent policy issues in each national context, ECPs formed transnational working groups to have a common understanding of the messages coming from ESPON results. These working groups elaborated their issues for their target groups more in details and designed the most appropriate and efficient form of communication with target groups. In this way ESPON results were put into the macroregional context of West, South, North and Central-Eastern areas, and both the content-related and the organisational tasks were organised in a balanced way

ESPON on the road - Bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making

The ESPONontheRoad project was a Transnational Networking Activity (TNA) of nineteen ESPON Contact Points (ECPs) with the aim to bring ESPON results closer for decision-making and thus increase the capitalisation of the ESPON Programme. During a year, participating ECPs brought ESPON closer to the local and regional level, and to citizens in physical and virtual forms. The project built a bridge between the issues on a local level and scientific evidence on EU territorial development policy themes. After taking stock of the most recent policy issues in each national context, ECPs formed transnational working groups to have a common understanding of the messages coming from ESPON results. These working groups designed the most appropriate and efficient form of communication for their target groups. In this way ESPON results were put into the macroregional context of West, South, North and Central-Eastern areas, and both the content-related and the organisational tasks were organised in a balanced way. The activity report summaries the goals of the project, presents how they were implemented and what are the lessons learnt. It concludes with recommendations for the future

ESPON on the road: bringing closer ESPON evidence for decision making: ECP Transnational Networking Activity Final Report

The ESPONontheRoad project was a Transnational Networking Activity (TNA) of nineteen ESPON Contact Points with the aim to bring ESPON results closer for decision-making and thus increase the capitalisation of the ESPON Programme. During the relatively short project lifetime of one year, participating ECPs brought ESPON closer to the local and regional level, and to citizens in physical and virtual forms as well. The project built a bridge between the issues on a local level and scientific evidence on EU territorial development policy themes. After taking stock of the most recent policy issues in each national context, ECPs formed transnational working groups to have a common understanding of the messages coming from ESPON results. These working groups elaborated their issues for their target groups more in details and designed the most appropriate and efficient form of communication with target groups. In this way ESPON results were put into the macroregional context of West, South, North and Central-Eastern areas, and both the content-related and the organisational tasks were organised in a balanced way

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Housing Provision in Lagos Megacity Region, Nigeria

The adoption of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in housing provision in Nigeria is intended to increase urban housing stock and address housing affordability and accessibility challenges. However, to date, very little is known about how PPP housing schemes have addressed these challenges. This paper therefore explores the extent to which PPP in housing provision has so far contributed to solving the housing challenges in the Lagos Megacity Region of Nigeria. The paper presents the result of a cross-sectional survey of operators of PPP schemes and housing consumers in the study area. The results show that the PPP approach is basically a formal joint venture partnership involving government providing land at subsidised cost and the provision of serviced plots or construction of housing units by private sector partners. Although the approach has provided affordable serviced plots and housing units for a few high income elites, it has contributed very little to the volume of housing units available to low-income people in Lagos. The paper suggests the adoption of a uniform policy on PPP in housing provision and the establishment of a co-ordinating agency. In addition, government involvement in the provision of infrastructure in PPP housing schemes could increase the affordable housing stock accessible to low-income people in the city.Public-Private Partnership, urban housing, housing affordability, Lagos Megacity Region, Nigeria,