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A series of boots-on-the-ground blogs from the hometowns of our research team
March 28, 2023
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A series of boots-on-the-ground blogs from the hometowns of our research team
Talent City is one of several exciting bright spots driving both infrastructure development and governance innovation in Africa.
By adopting the innovative governance system offered by the charter cities model, the DRC can not only address its development challenges, but would also demonstrate that it can also deliver on bold and innovative models of economic development for its people.
A charter city operated via a public-private partnership at the Port of Berbera, Somaliland will substantially increase the positive impacts of Somaliland’s already effective national development strategy.
Charter cities are new cities with new rules. The Governance Handbook is the first comprehensive guide that lays out what these rules should be, and how they should be administered.
A CCI team recently travelled to Zambia to meet with key stakeholders in the new administration.
Charter city projects are under construction and governments around the world are acting: the charter cities moment has arrived. This report first reviews both the past and present of the charter cities movement, and then lays out a vision as to where this movement is headed. This was written by Mark Lutter, Kurtis Lockhart, Jeffrey Mason, Carl Peterson, and Heba Elhanafy.
Improving the Lives of Congolese Citizens and Creating a Stable and Ethical Source for Critical Minerals
CCI’s first academic publication on Honduras’ charter cities law, written by Jeffrey Mason and Carl Peterson.
Somaliland is an autonomous region in the Horn of Africa that unilaterally declared independence from Somalia in 1991. Not only has Somaliland maintained democratic governance, but it has also made continual efforts to improve this governance and recently passed the “Somaliland Special Economic Zones Law.”
The Charter Cities Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to empowering new cities with better governance to lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.
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