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Aisa Kirabo Kacyira
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“Holding the title of Mayor is not enough; if you do not have the resources and capacities at local level, especially in urban governance.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Local and regional governments focus on localizing the SDGs during the #EDD17. UCLG. (June 2017)
“It’s only through inclusive growth that the city dwellers can do their best, otherwise they become passive recipients or even a cause of risk to development.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Local and regional governments focus on localizing the SDGs during the #EDD17. UCLG. (June 2017)
“A recent study by the World Bank indicated that if urbanization is unplanned, we leave it to go the way it is, and we come to correct it, often it’s not less than nine times the cost financially of doing it proactively. And that’s even without the political and social complications of trying to reorganize a chaotically-settled urbanization process.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CORE OF RISK REDUCTION. Prevention Web. (July 2015)
“In our quest to address the issue of urban poverty by giving aid, we have not adequately tapped in to the potential existing even in informal settlements.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CORE OF RISK REDUCTION. Prevention Web. (July 2015)
“we chose to unite, reconcile and rebuild our nation with a common vision and strive to think big”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said by Aisa Kirabo Kacyiraktpress (July 30, 2022)
“the process of building a sustainable city can also be used as a tool to create employment”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Aisa Kirabo Kacyira, Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General for UN-Habitat Banque Africaine de Development (May 23, 2016)
“There are areas that city leaders should lead, there are many other areas where they should just facilitate.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: YouTube on Channel of Centre for Liveable Cities YouTube (September 19,2026)
“City growth is so fast and yet the capacity to self is so limited that it becomes much more of a survival catch-up process than a strategic thinking and guidance process.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: YouTube on Channel of Centre for Liveable Cities YouTube (September 19,2026)
“Well, as you now I am a human being, and as they say we are political animals. I cannot deny the ambitions but that may happen in future,”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I will not contest for Mayor -Kirabo newtimes.co.rw (September 19, 2026)
“I know that all Rwandans love their country and that is what has brought us where we are. This kind of spirit should always prevail.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I will not contest for Mayor -Kirabo newtimes.co.rw (September 19, 2026)
“Urban safety will not happen by accident and requires hard work and action.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is good that we are agreed on the need to sit down and talk. But how can we talk with the excessive poverty and excessive affluence we see in our urban centres?”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If urbanisation should be possible and if we are going to build landed housing without going up, it simply means it will be expensive, but if we have to densify then we need to go up.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not going to have vibrant cities by running away from the problem and spreading and sprawling.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.globalissues.org/news/2015/09/03/21453
“Inequality exists in a more concentrated form in spaces where people live closely together, which is obviously the case in cities.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.kulturaustausch.de/en/issues/issue-iii-iv-2018/preventing-cities-from-collapsing/?utm_source
“Cities are not only where rapid improvements in socio-economic and environmental conditions are possible, but it is, indeed, where such change is most needed.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cities of the world's emerging economies are increasingly drivers of global prosperity while the planet's resources are fast depleting.”
Aisa Kirabo Kacyira (1965–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source