25 February 2021 12:00–13:30 As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by strong public policy and social governance, to support economic development and social welfare. China has much to share from its experience of rapid urbanisation and putting in place structures to support population health and welfare. This webinar explores the bottom-up and top-down participation approaches to urban sustainable development in Africa and China. Speakers and topics A bottom up approach to changing top down approaches; the work of the many African Slum/Shack Dwellers Federations David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow at IIED and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. He co-authored with Diana Mitlin two recent books on Urban Poverty in the Global South; Scale and Nature (2012) and Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South (2013). He was a co-ordinating lead author of the chapter on urban adaptation in the Fifth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and was part of the IPCC team honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He is also editor of the journal Environment & Urbanization.