Astrid Haas

Independent Feminist Urban Economist

Astrid is an independent feminist urban economist, based in Kampala, Uganda, working across research and practice, supporting cities with questions of strategy and governance related to financing and funding public infrastructure and services. Astrid currently has appointments as the Chair of the Board of the Mawazo Institute, as a Research Associate at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and ODI as well as a Fellow at the African Urban Lab, African School of Economics. Between 2016-2019 she headed Cities that Work. Astrid is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Oxford looking at the intersection of infrastructure finance and gender. She is a 2026 Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow receipient as well as nominated as Austrian of the year for her work on urbanisation.

Astrid Haas

Projects

Cost effective panel data collection for Kampala

Scoping trip: Introducing a formal bus system into Kampala

Cost effective panel data collection

The potential of taxing vacant land in Kampala’s central division

Establishing frameworks for municipal finance in Somaliland

KCCA research programme and operational framework development

Trade, EAC and WTO accession: Pro-growth options

Commitment to equity assessment of Uganda

African cities background: Kampala – a policy narrative

All contributions

Masterclass on Building Cities that Work

Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Kampala

Renforcer les finances municipales : l’expérience de Kampala (Ouganda)

Renforcer les finances municipales : l’expérience de Dakar

Renforcer les finances municipales : l’expérience de Mzuzu et du Malawi

Renforcer les finances municipales : l’expérience de Hargeisa (Somaliland)

Xoojinta booska maaliyadeed magaalooyinka: Caddayn laga sameeyey Hargeysa

Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Mzuzu

Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Hargeisa

Enhancing the financial position of cities: Evidence from Dakar

Unleashing the power of urbanisation for Uganda’s new cities

Building better data to support sustainable urbanisation in the Commonwealth

How transport reforms have impacted urban connectivity in Kenya

Housing in Hawassa: How to accommodate migrant labour in industrialising cities

What a rapidly urbanising Africa can learn from China’s experience

For the urban poor, trade may be the only lifeline during a pandemic

Devolve more power to cities: they will need it more than ever

Designed to succeed: Building authorising environments for fast-growing cities

Property taxes in a pandemic world

Rethinking regulations: Informal settlements in the time of COVID-19

Property tax and urban policy in KP

Water, sanitation, and hygiene policy in the time of COVID-19

Empowering our cities to fight the pandemics of the future

La prise de décisions politiques en période d'incertitude : le confinement intelligent avec apprentissage actif

Policymaking in uncertain times: Smart containment with active learning (Arabic version)

Policymaking in uncertain times: Smart containment with active learning

Could the economic cost outpace the health impact of COVID-19 in Africa?

IGC at Urban Innovation Africa

Cities and experts meeting: Strengthening the financing position and investment in the cities of developing countries

IGC at the World Urban Forum

Setting water tariffs right: Considerations and approaches

Understanding demand and funding for piped-water supply in Mandalay City

Paths to urbanisation: Comparing the stories of Chinese and African cities

Paths to urbanisation: Comparing the stories of Chinese and African cities

The importance of bus rapid transit systems (BRTs) for cities

Considerations for land value capture reform in the Greater Amman Municipality

Can Africa learn from the Chinese urbanisation story?

Best practices for property tax enforcement

Data for Cities: A 2019 Urban Baseline for Mandalay City

Financing Punjab’s cities: Land and property taxes workshop

Uganda Economic Growth Forum 2019: Industrialisation for job creation and shared prosperity

Financer les villes à croissance rapide

Getting the right institutions in place to run Africa’s cities efficiently

Urban governance institutions: Policy options for fast growing cities

IGC - Greater Amman Municipality workshop on data in urban policy making and development levies

Key considerations for integrated multi-modal transport planning

Data for decision-making: How spatial data is shaping the African urbanisation story

Considerations for a tax on urban vacant land in Kampala

Taxing vacant urban land in Kampala

IGC at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2018

Where are Kampala’s missing houses?

Private vs. public collection in enhancing local tax revenues

Efficient and effective municipal tax administration: A case study of the Kampala Capital City Authority

An overview of municipal finance in Hargeisa, Somaliland

Property taxes: Exploring the untapped potential for the city of Hargeisa

In conversation with Jennifer Musisi at the World Urban Forum

IGC and the Kampala Capital City Authority at the World Urban Forum

Why metropolitan governance structures matter: Kampala

Tackling the big stink: Investing in water and sanitation systems

A framework for initiating public transport reform in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area

Incremental reform for public transportation: From mini-vans to buses

Taxation of vacant urban land: From theory to practice

Financing fast-growing cities

Uganda needs a caffeine fix: Insights from Vietnam’s coffee market success

The importance of property rights for successful urbanisation in developing countries

From moving vehicles to moving people: Designing a mass public transportation system for Kampala

Kampala, where urbanisation is not synonymous with industrialisation

Proceed with caution: South Sudan and the East African Monetary Union