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Goal 11 of 17

11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

UCU Libraries Focus

Urban resilience and community development research access.

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Official

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Inverted

Goal 11

Progress Metrics

3,400+

Urban Studies Records

95+

Community Programmes

180 / yr

Public Knowledge Sessions

Published UCU Evidence

Research contribution to SDG 11

These repository article records show how UCU scholarship contributes directly to this goal through evidence, policy learning, community insight, and discipline-specific research.

Environment: 5Culture: 1

Culture

Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Uganda

Strengthens cultural heritage preservation, digital archives, institutional memory, and access to Uganda’s knowledge heritage.

2025 repository update

Environment

Co-seismic and rainfall-triggered landslide hazard susceptibility assessment for Uganda derived using fuzzy logic and geospatial modelling techniques

Supports disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, land-use planning, and geospatial evidence for public safety.

2025 repository update

Environment

Fault-oriented spatially distributed seismicity model and coseismic landslide hazard assessment framework for Uganda

Improves national hazard assessment capacity and evidence for resilient infrastructure planning.

2025 repository update

Environment

Probabilistic earthquake risk assessment framework for Uganda: event-based modelling approach

Provides risk modelling evidence for disaster preparedness, infrastructure safety, and national resilience.

2025 repository update

Environment

Stochastic event-based probabilistic earthquake risk assessment framework for Uganda: towards informing the National Policy for Disaster preparedness and management

Connects geoscience research to disaster-preparedness policy and climate-resilient development.

2025 repository update

Environment

Plant communities as indicators of anthropogenic disturbance on a peri-urban tropical wetland of Lutembe Bay wetland system, Uganda

Supports wetland conservation, biodiversity protection, urban sustainability, and environmental monitoring.

2025 repository update

Key Targets

What Should Be Achieved

1

Urban sustainability research support

2

Community knowledge partnerships

3

Resilience policy evidence access

Our Contribution

UCU Libraries Initiatives

City development reading lists

Community archives programmes

Sustainability research showcases

At a Glance

Targets

3

Initiatives

3

Metrics Tracked

3

Focus Areas

5