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UN-HABITAT - REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS
UN-HABITAT
SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA
ATLAS
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
2 UN-HABITAT 3
COUNTRIES COVERED BY THE REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA (ROAf) Africa’s increased urban population is a powerful asset for the continent’s overall transformation. However, it
can only attain its full potential when cities are properly planned and adequately serviced. A major change is
needed in the course of Africa’s urban development – a shift whose main thrust can be propelled by, first, a re-
examination of the planning process and the delivery of basic services.
UN-Habitat Regional Office in Africa (ROAf), located in Nairobi, Kenya, is working with African governments to
Mauritania
take early action to position themselves for predominately urban populations. The portfolio of ongoing projects
Cabo Verde
Mali Niger Chad in Africa is very diverse in terms of geographic coverage and development partners.
Eritrea
Senegal
The Gambia URBANIZATION IN AFRICA: OVERVIEW
Burkina
Guinea Bissau Guinea Faso Djibouti
Benin
Conakry Nigeria Demographic and Urban Trends
Togo South Sudan
Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African In 2009, Africa’s total population for the first time exceeded one billion, of which 395 million (or almost 40 per
Liberia Republic
cent) lived in urban areas. Africa should prepare for a total population increase of about 60 per cent between
Cameroon
Somalia 2010 and 2050, with the urban population tripling to 1.23 billion during this period.
Equatorial Uganda
Guinea Congo Kenya Around 2030, Africa’s collective population will become 50 percent urban. The majority of political constituencies
São Tomé & Brazaville
Gabon
Príncipe Democratic will then live in cities, demanding means of subsistence, shelter and services. African governments should position
Republic of Rwanda
Congo
themselves for predominant urban populations.
Burundi
Tanzania In the early 2040s, African cities will collectively be home to one billion people, equivalent to the continent’s total
population in 2009. Since cities are the future habitat for the majority of Africans, now is the time for spending
Seychelles on basic infrastructure, social services (health and education) and affordable housing, in the process stimulating
Angola
urban economies and generating much-needed jobs. Not a single African government can afford to ignore the
Mozambique on-going rapid urban transition.
Malawi Comoros
Zambia
Cities must become priority areas for public policies, with investment provided to build adequate governance
capacities, equitable service delivery, affordable housing provision and better wealth distribution.
Zimbabwe Madagascar
Namibia Mauritius
New urban configurations
Botswana
City regions, urban development corridors, mega urban regions and other new urban configurations continue
to emerge or become increasingly visible across Africa. Their spatial and functional features demand new urban
Swaziland
management methods to ensure consistent area-wide governance. Sweeping reform is also critical for effective
South delivery of affordable housing, social services and urban infrastructure commensurate with the magnitudes of
Lesotho
Africa these rapidly expanding urban concentrations.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Different political traditions, economic circumstances and location-specific features make every African nation
and city unique. Therefore, effective reform and adaptation must be location specific. Increasingly well-defined
Project manager: Oumar Sylla
urban regions and urban development corridors introduce complex and highly fluid spatial, regulatory and
Project supervisor: Mutinta Munyati and Mathias Spaliviero
political realities.
Authors: Marcella Guarneri, Thomaz Ramalho, Fruzsina Straus, Ishaku Maitumbi, Thomas Chiramba, Claude Ngomsi, Mary Muriithi
Contributors: Naison Mutizwa-Mangiza, Yombi Ouedraogo, Julia de Faria, Julia Rabelo, Janice da Silva, Alain Ngono, Aklilu
As urban systems and interurban flows of people, goods, communications and funds extend across national
Fikresilassie, Charlotte Albin, Mohammed Ademo, Luisa Kieling, Edinilson Silva, Jeremiah Ougo, Denise Dalla Colleta, Wild do
borders, policies must follow suit if they are to have any realistic prospect of influencing the outcomes. The
Rosario, Catherine Kalisa, Marcel Iradukunda, Asia Adam, Joel Balagizi, Moonga Chilanga, Josphine Maina, Alex Koech, Irene
management tools of the traditional mono-centric city are not appropriate for today’s multi-nuclear urban
Wamukota, Paul Okunlola, Abena Ntori, Stephanie Gerretsen, Michael Kinyanjui, John Kebari Omwamba, Remy Sietchiping, Gianluca
configurations. The need for governance reform to introduce holistic area-wide planning and urban management
Crispi
simply cannot be overemphasized.
Edition: Marcella Guarneri, Mutinta Munyati
Report design and layout: Marcella Guarneri
Lack of fiscal decentralization
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(UN-Habitat) 2020 Many African municipalities are financially weak because their revenue- and finance-generating structures are
inadequate and inefficient. Decentralizing responsibilities without fiscal decentralization contributes to urban
All rights reserved decay, poor services and the proliferation of slums. Fiscal must match political decentralization in order to create
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) more revenue-generating options and decision-making power for local authorities. Property tax is currently
P.O. Box 30030 00100 Nairobi GPO KENYA the major revenue source for municipal authorities, although, at times, it can place an inequitable burden on
Tel: 254-020-7623120 (Central Office) property owners.
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Urban poverty and inequality Cities are in a unique position to contribute to global and local climate change adaptation, mitigation and
protection, and they must take advantage of it. However, forward-looking spatial planning decisions alone
Polarization and confrontation have increased in African cities due to laissez-faire attitudes to rapid urbanization. are not enough. To prevent any policy gaps, it is important to link national, regional and local environmental
The unfolding pattern is one of disjointed, dysfunctional and unsustainable urban geographies of inequality and adaptation and mitigation policies through vertical and horizontal cooperation across all tiers of government as
human suffering, with oceans of poverty containing islands of wealth. Socioeconomic conditions in most African well as all relevant stakeholders.
cities are now increasingly showing unequal, threatening systemic stability, affecting not only the continuity of
cities as social-political human eco-systems but also entire nations. STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE URBANIZATION IN AFRICA
The challenge of African urban sustainability calls for a focus on cities as people-centred concentrations of Compact cities
opportunity. Harnessing rather than alienating human energies is essential to maintaining urban dynamism,
which cannot be fostered or maintained with rising urban inequality. The urban poor should not be punished for African cities need to move away from rigid planning and urbanization that creates low densities and long
their poverty. Instead, national urban policy, urban planning and building regulations should reflect a country’s distances: an unsustainable model that generates socially divided and poorly connected cities.
degree of national development and its institutional capacities while keeping costs at affordable levels for all.
Construction standards should be set more realistically in order to facilitate rather than restrict the creation of Initiating legal reforms and enhancing institutional capacities
housing and livelihoods.
Following the reform process, existing laws and regulations need to be reviewed, while simplified norms and
Informal settlements basic principles need to be adopted to guide urban development and facilitate the use of tools and guidelines.
Partnerships with governments can reduce social conflict, political instability, bureaucratic procedures and
In recent years, Africa as a whole has shown that informal settlements can be reduced effectively as 24 million corruption, and therefore creates an environment conducive to strong and flexible institutions.
African slum dwellers saw their living conditions improved during the 2000/10 decade. Although, progress has
been uneven across the continent. Northern Africa collectively managed to reduce from 20 to 13 percent the share Developing a transformative national urban policy
of slum dwellers in its urban population. However, south of the Sahara the number of slum dwellers decreased by
only five per cent (or 17 million). Countries may wish to consider, depending on their national contexts, to review or develop their National Urban
Policies. A good National Policy should acknowledge the power of urbanization to propel and guide national
Much remains to be done with regard to urban poverty and slum incidence, because slums are one of the economic growth and reduce poverty, both in urban and rural areas; promotes a more optimistic perspective
major threats to African urban stability and, by extension, to overall political stability. One aspect that needs about the city, confronting the negative perception of urbanization.
more attention is that formal urban markets, by their very operations and rules, prevent access to land by the
majority of city dwellers all over Africa. As a result, informal markets fill this exclusion gap and this is where the Closing the urban divide
overwhelming majority of African urban land transactions take place nowadays.
There is an urgent need of transforming planning and basic service provision from factors which perpetuate
Governments should seek the most effective entry points for an overhaul of the often abysmal failures of their urban inequity to instruments for fostering inclusiveness and prosperity. Urban investments, in terms of goals and
formal urban land administration systems, with their unresponsive institutions, excessive delays, cumbersome design, have to take into account the needs and interests of all social groups.
land transaction administration and the associated corruption. Stigmatizing informal urban land markets as
inappropriate, illegal, illegitimate or undesirable negates the realities on the ground. Advancing a new pact: learning to do things together
A second aspect is that slums are largely the outcome of lack of access to urban land and housing finance. Land The African cities have manifested a great potential in leveraging national transformation, in harnessing the
plots under informal tenure expose those occupying them with eviction, and they cannot be used as collateral people’s creativity, and in serving as critical nodes in the connection with the global system. Bearing in mind
for bank loans. These two factors do not encourage slum dwellers to improve their homes. This situation must be that the African future is predominantly urban, the imperative of overcoming the current limitations need to be
changed to encourage the urban poor to undertake improvements through self-help. looked into.
Urban food and water insecurity Learning to work together
Many urban managers deeply underestimate the risks associated with urban food and water insecurity. African Achieving higher levels of sustainable urban development requires clear policies, simple norms and basic principles,
governments should heed the warning bells of 2008 and seriously consider the potential effects of urban food and concerted efforts from public, private and social actors and requires that different levels of government learn
and water shortages. Significant amounts of African land and water resources are purchased or long-term leased to work together. Effective decentralization demands strong coordination capacities of the central government
by foreign governments and foreign food-processing corporations. and should lead to dynamic and well-governed cities.
Africa is well placed to make strategic, forward-looking decisions on the wise use of its rich water and agricultural South-South cooperation
resources. However, governments must bargain harder for better and more transparent deals, so that foreign
investment can contribute to Africa’s future food and water security, with benefits spread out among local Africa can optimize its potential by learning from the experiences of other parts of the world, particularly those
communities in terms of additional business, cash payments and employment opportunities. from the South. Apart from bilateral arrangements, collaboration among ministerial bodies of these regions
needs to be developed, and UN-Habitat is ready to play a facilitating role in this process.
Climate change
UN-Habitat remains committed to Africa. With the support from the African Development Bank and other
Today’s planning decisions can cause inefficiencies and ecologically-unfriendly urban configurations further development partners, UN-Habitat is keen to strengthen positive collaboration and partnerships with all levels
down the road. Spatial separation of related urban functions is evident among most metropolitan areas and this of governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector and regional economic communities such as
increases transportation needs. Urban mobility must become a key factor in spatial decisions, and improved mass the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC), and the
transit systems can significantly reduce private vehicle use. Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), etc.
towards eradicating urban poverty and in transforming Africa’s urban development agenda.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
6 ACTIVE COUNTRIES IN 2020 7
PARTNERS • Angola • Kenya
• Botswana • Madagascar
In Africa, Habitat Agenda Partners (HAP) are a range of organizations, both outside and within the national, • Burkina Faso • Malawi
local and county government in the quest of sustainable urbanization and human settlements development. • Cabo Verde • Mozambique
In an effort to continue working and learning together, UN-Habitat has established a number of thematic
networks composed of a cross section of HAPs to allow partners to contribute to the design and implementation • Cameroon • Niger
of normative and operational programmes at all levels. • Comoros • Rwanda
• Congo DR • São Tome & Principe
These includes, local authorities, NGOs and CBOs, trade unions, professional bodies, academics and research • Cote d’Ivoire • Somalia
institutions, local communities, parliamentarians, private sector members, foundations, financial institutions, • Ethiopia • South Sudan
women and youths.
• Ghana • Uganda
DONORS • Guinea Bissau • Zambia
• Guinea Conakry • Zimbabwe
UNICEF-ANGOLA European Commission
PM of Cape Verde to the United Nations UNHCR
One UN Fund IOM
DFID UNICEF - Mozambique
MPTF Peace Building Fund II Smart Africa Secretariat
United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security Government of Rwanda COUNTRY COUNTRY OFFICE Mauritania
(UNTFHS) European Commission Africa UrbanAfrican
Agenda Programme Active
Union/UNECA Active Mali Niger Chad
DROSOS FOUNDATION Embassy of Sweden Angola Active Cabo Verde
Benin Inactive Eritrea
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation DANIDA Botswana Active Senegal
Burkina Faso Active
(SDC) Norway Government Burundi Inactive
The Gambia
Burkina
Cabo Verde Active
SIDA United Nations Peace Building FundCameroon Active Guinea Bissau Guinea Faso
Benin
Djibouti
Conakry Nigeria
Dahir Dah City Administration United Nations Trust Fund forCentral
Human African Republic Inactive
Security
Chad Inactive Togo South Sudan
Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
Government of Japan USAID Comoros Active
Congo Brazzaville Inactive D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
City Government of Addis Ababa Government of the Republic of Zambia Congo DR Active
Cote d'Ivoire Active
Liberia Republic
United Nations Development Programme UN DESA Urban Resilience (DiMSUR) Active
Djibouti Inactive
Cameroon
Somalia
Booyoung Fund Federal Government of Nigeria Equatorial Guinea Inactive Equatorial Uganda
Eritrea Inactive
UNDP MPTF (Multi-Partner Trust Fund) Government of Ghana Ethiopia Active
São Tomé & Guinea Congo Kenya
Gabon Inactive Gabon Brazaville
European Union Government of Republic of Korea Ghana Active Príncipe Democratic
Republic of Rwanda
Government of Cameroun Niger State Government Great Lakes - Chad/Cameroon Inactive
Guinea Bissau Active Congo Burundi
University of Ottawa Agència Catalana de CooperacióGuinea al Desenvolupa-
Conakry Active
Kenya Active
Tanzania
Government of Kenya ment (ACCD) Lesotho Inactive
Liberia Inactive
Kisumu County Government Andalusian Agency of InternationalMadagascar Cooperation
Active
Malawi Active Seychelles
Ericsson for Development (AACID) Mali Inactive
Mauritania Inactive
Pamoja Trust United Nations Development Account Mauritius Inactive Angola
Mozambique Active Mozambique
Garissa County Government Namibia Inactive Malawi Comoros
Niger Inactive Zambia
Nigeria Inactive
Rwanda Active
São Tome & Principe Active
Senegal Inactive Zimbabwe Madagascar
Seychelles Inactive Namibia Mauritius
Sierra Leone Inactive
Somalia Active
South Africa Inactive Botswana
South Sudan Active
Swaziland - Eswatini Inactive
Tanzania Inactive
The Gambia Inactive
Eswatini
Togo Inactive
Uganda Active
Youth/Gender Active South
Zambia Active Africa Lesotho
Zimbabwe Inactive Country Offices
Active
Inactive
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA
8 % URBAN POPULATION TOTAL POPULATION 9
Mauritania COUNTRY TOTAL POPULATION Mauritania
Nigeria 196 045 330
Mali Niger Chad Ethiopia 107 345 043 Mali Niger Chad
Cabo Verde Congo DR 83 930 200 Cabo Verde
Eritrea Tanzania 59 048 950 Eritrea
Senegal South Africa 57 359 592 Senegal
Kenya 51 006 685
The Gambia The Gambia
Burkina Uganda 44 597 809 Burkina
Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti Angola 30 780 974 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea Mozambique 30 518 389 Guinea
Conakry Benin Nigeria Burkina Faso 29 890 567 Conakry Benin Nigeria
Togo South Sudan Ghana 29 442 460 Togo South Sudan
Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia Madagascar 26 256 142 Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African Cote d'Ivoire 24 895 315 D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Liberia Republic Cameroon 24 666 901 Liberia Republic
Niger 22 345 683
Cameroon Malawi 19 206 704 Cameroon
Somalia Mali 19 088 019 Somalia
Zambia 17 617 648
Equatorial Uganda Zimbabwe 16 917 742 Equatorial Uganda
Guinea Congo Kenya Senegal 16 291 612 Guinea Congo Kenya
São Tomé & São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville Democratic
Chad 15 325 883
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville
Democratic
Somalia 15 172 033
Republic of Rwanda Guinea Conakry 13 066 956 Republic of Rwanda
Congo Burundi South Sudan 12 928 898 Congo Burundi
Rwanda 12 509 052
Benin 11 488 643
Tanzania Burundi 11 243 877 Tanzania
Togo 7 991 242
Sierra Leone 7 711 406
Congo Brazzaville 5 401 196
Seychelles Seychelles
Eritrea 5 185 322
Liberia 4 848 910
Angola Central African Republic 4 733 302 Angola
Mozambique Mauritania 4 537 698 Mozambique
Malawi Comoros
Namibia 2 589 482 Malawi Comoros
Zambia Botswana 2 334 764 Zambia
Lesotho 2 259 223
The Gambia 2 162 692
Gabon 2 066 864
Zimbabwe Madagascar
Guinea Bissau 1 905 516 Zimbabwe Madagascar
Namibia Swaziland - eSwatini 1 391 340 Mauritius Namibia Mauritius
Equatorial Guinea 1 314 675
Mauritius 1 268 105
Botswana Djibouti 971 122 Botswana
Comoros 831 352
Cabo Verde 553 600 Total Population
% Urban Population São Tome & Principe 208 827 (2018)
Seychelles 95 219
(2018) Eswatini >100M Eswatini
>70% 100M - 50M
South South
69 - 50% Africa Lesotho 50M - 20M Africa Lesotho
49 - 40% 20M - 10M
39 - 20% 10M - 100K
19 - 10%
10 URBAN POPULATION (2018) 11
Mauritania COUNTRY Mauritania
55.262 South Africa 10919.359
39.994 Mali Niger Chad Nigeria 9942.297 Mali Niger Chad
27.079 Cabo Verde DRC 4924.023 Cabo Verde
3.89 Eritrea Ghana 2489.533 Eritrea
9.242 Senegal Ethiopia 2440.181 Senegal
8.444 Côte d'Ivoire 1476.401
1.988
The Gambia The Gambia
Burkina Cameroon 1325.11 Burkina
8.898 Guinea Bissau Faso DjiboutiSenegal 1277.252 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea Guinea
4.543
9.667
6.659
Conakry Benin Nigeria
South Sudan
Zambia 1266.841
Kenya 1158.465
Tanzania 1068.352
Conakry Benin Nigeria COUNTRY
South Sudan
URBAN POPULATION Mauritania
Côte Togo Ethiopia Côte Togo Ethiopia
8.517
2.368
Sierra Leone
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Angola 1013.531
Madagascar 927.259
Sierra Leone
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Nigeria 98 610 801
8.122 Liberia Republic Zimbabwe 898.584 Liberia Republic South Africa 38 086 769 Mali Niger Chad
Cabo Verde
7.063 Mali 852.497
5.701
2.001
Cameroon Mozambique 823.643
SomaliaSomalia 781.165
Cameroon
Congo DR 37 348 939
Somalia
6.369 Guinea 674.21
8.973 Equatorial
Congo
Uganda Sierra Leone 645.306 Equatorial
Congo
Ethiopia
Uganda 22 327 769 Eritrea
Guinea Kenya Guinea Kenya
Senegal
7.613 Uganda 629.441
6.199
1.278
São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville Democratic
Congo 534.042
Central African Republic 502.752
São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville
Democratic
Angola 20 161 538
4.385 Republic of Rwanda Benin 486.086 Republic of Rwanda
Tanzania 19 958 545
5.449 Congo Burundi Togo 450.18 Congo Burundi
Ghana 16 517 220
The Gambia
4.658
4.316
Tanzania
Chad 421.481
Niger 396.646
Tanzania
Burkina
0.623 Liberia 368.651
Cameroon 13 912 132 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea
2.604 Mauritius 351.699
1.784 Burkina Faso 323.163
Kenya 13 771 805
Benin
3.56 South Sudan 314.909
Seychelles Seychelles
093
067
Malawi 278.646
Eritrea 229.718 Cote d'Ivoire 12 646 820 Conakry Nigeria
172 Angola Gabon 188.838 Angola
956 Mozambique Namibia 173.96
Mozambique Mozambique
10 986 620 Togo South Sudan
616
208 Zambia
Malawi Comoros
Mauritania 167.332
Rwanda 119.936 Zambia
Malawi
Uganda
Comoros
10 525 083 Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
974 Guinea-Bissau 107.712
875
856
Djibouti 98.633
Burundi 98.327 Madagascar 9 767 285 D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Zimbabwe Madagascar Zimbabwe
8Madagascar
285 Lesotho 88.923
682 Namibia Gambia 87.204 Mauritius Namibia Mali 093 320 Mauritius Liberia Republic
49 Equatorial Guinea 82.618
844
205 Botswana
Botswana 54.495
Cabo Verde 52.849 Botswana Senegal 7 689 641
526
53 Urban Population
Comoros 44.607
Swaziland 43.26 Urban Population Zambia 7 663 677 Cameroon
94
06
>50M
(1950)
Eswatini
Sao Tome and Principe 21.918
Seychelles 20.458
>50M
(1970) Somalia
Eswatini
6 827 415 Somalia
50M - 10M
Saint Helena 2.266
50M - 10M Burkina Faso 5 798 770
9M - 5M
South
Africa Lesotho 9M - 5M
South
Africa Lesotho Zimbabwe 5 447 513 Equatorial Uganda
4M - 1M
900K - 100K
4M - 1M
900K - 100K Benin 5 434 128 Guinea Congo Kenya
50M Eswatini >50M Eswatini
50M - 10M 50M - 10M
9M - 5M
4M - 1M
South
Africa Lesotho 9M - 5M
4M - 1M
South
Africa Lesotho Source: UNDESA - United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018
900K - 100K 900K - 100K Revision, Online Edition.
12 URBAN GROWTH RATE URBAN GROWTH RATE (UNDESA 2015-2020) 13
UNTRY OFFICE Mauritania COUNTRY URBAN RATE Mauritania
0.50 Botswana 11.77
.56 Mali Niger Chad Swaziland 10.30 Mali Niger Chad
.65 Cabo Verde Tanzania 10.22 Cabo Verde
.49 Eritrea Mauritania 9.81 Eritrea
.34 Senegal Cameroon 8.58 Senegal
.34 Djibouti 8.45
.27
The Gambia The Gambia
Burkina Chad 8.24 Burkina
.25 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti Kenya 8.16 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea Guinea
.19
.87
.76
Conakry Benin Nigeria
South Sudan
Niger
Gabon
Benin
8.01
7.82
7.72
Conakry Benin Nigeria COUNTRY
South Sudan
URBAN GROWTH RATE Mauritania
Côte Togo Ethiopia Côte Togo Ethiopia
.72
.69
Sierra Leone
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Gambia
Malawi
7.56
7.48
Sierra Leone
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Uganda 5.70
.69 Liberia Republic Rwanda 7.47 Liberia Republic Burundi 5.68 Mali Niger Chad
Cabo Verde
.88 Angola 7.43
.83
.77
Cameroon Côte d'Ivoire
SomaliaLesotho
7.33
6.73
Cameroon
Tanzania 5.22
Somalia
.58 Zambia 6.28
.54 Equatorial
Congo
Uganda Mozambique 6.22 Equatorial
Congo
Burkina
Uganda Faso 4.99 Eritrea
Guinea Kenya Guinea Kenya
Senegal
.47 Sudan 6.06
.37
.33
São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville
Democratic
Zimbabwe
Seychelles
6.04
5.97
São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville
Democratic
Mali 4.86
.31 Republic of Rwanda Liberia 5.84 Republic of Rwanda
Ethiopia 4.63
.28 Congo Burundi Madagascar 5.72 Congo Burundi
Congo DR 4.53
The Gambia
.27
.13
Tanzania
Burundi
Senegal
5.49
5.28
Tanzania
Burkina
.04 Congo 5.06
Madagascar 4.48 Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea
.03 Sierra Leone 5.04
.98 Central African Republic 4.98
Mozambique 4.35
Benin
.96 Somalia 4.73
Seychelles Seychelles
.91
.77
Guinea
Ethiopia
4.67
4.66 Angola 4.32 Conakry Nigeria
.77 Angola Nigeria 4.64 Angola
.75 Mozambique AFRICA 4.44
Equatorial Guinea
Mozambique
4.28 Togo South Sudan
.69
.64 Zambia
Malawi Comoros Mali
Namibia
4.22
4.14 Zambia
Malawi
Mauritania
Comoros
4.28 Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
.58 Togo 4.10
.56
.53
Comoros
Eritrea
4.06
3.99 Niger 4.27 D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
.45 Zimbabwe Madagascar
Uganda 3.83 Zimbabwe Madagascar
.42 Namibia Burkina Faso 3.79 Mauritius Namibia Kenya 4.23 Mauritius Liberia Republic
.39 DRC 3.66
.29
.27 Botswana
Sao Tome and Principe
Ghana
3.52
3.42 Botswana Nigeria 4.23
.18
.99 Urban Growth Rate
Algeria
South Africa
3.18
2.88 Urban Growth Rate Somalia 4.23 Cameroon
.95
.79
>5
(1950-1955)
Eswatini
Guinea-Bissau
South Sudan
2.84
2.30
>5
(1970-1975) Zambia
Eswatini
4.23 Somalia
.79
.68 5-4
Cabo Verde
Mauritius
1.98
1.94 5-4 Namibia 4.20
.66
.64
4-3
South
Africa Lesotho
Equatorial Guinea - 2.98
4-3
South
Africa Lesotho Malawi 4.19 Equatorial Uganda
.54
.42
3-2
2-1
3-2
2-1 South Sudan 4.10 Guinea Congo Kenya
.09
5 Eswatini
3.97 Mauritius - 0.09
Mauritius 0.11
5-4
4-3
South
Africa Lesotho
5-4
4-3
South
Africa Lesotho MEDIAN: 3.80
>5 Eswatini
3-2
2-1
3-2
2-1 5-4
URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS 15
CITY COUNTRY Mauritania
Lagos Nigeria 9,000,000
Kinshasa Dr Congo 7,785,965 Mali Niger Chad
Abidjan Ivory Coast 3,677,115 Cabo Verde
Kano Nigeria 3,626,068 Dakar Eritrea
Ibadan Nigeria 3,565,108 Senegal
Cape Town South Africa 3,433,441
The Gambia Bamako Ouagadougou Kano
Durban South Africa 3,120,282 Maiduguri
Luanda Angola 2,776,168 Guinea Bissau Guinea Burkina Zaria
Faso Djibouti
Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2,757,729 Kaduna
Nairobi Kenya 2,750,547
Conakry Conakry Benin Addis Ababa
Ghana
Dar es Salaam Tanzania 2,698,652 Camayenne Nigeria South Sudan
Mogadishu Somalia 2,587,183 Sierra Leone Côte Kumasi Togo
Lagos Ibadan Ethiopia
Dakar Senegal 2,476,400 D’Ivoire Central African
Johannesburg South Africa 2,026,469
Liberia Abidjan Benin
Republic
Khartoum Sudan 1,974,647 Monrovla Accra Douala
Accra Ghana 1,963,264 Cameroon Somalia
Port Harcourt
Camayenne Guinea 1,871,242 Yaoundé
Conakry Guinea 1,767,200
Soweto South Africa 1,695,047 Equatorial Uganda Mogadishu
Pretoria South Africa 1,619,438 Guinea Congo Kenya
Kaduna Nigeria 1,582,102
São Tomé & Brazaville Kampala
Príncipe Gabon Democratic Nairobi
Harare Zimbabwe 1,542,813
Kumasi Ghana 1,468,609 Republic of Rwanda
Brazaville
Antananarivo Madagascar 1,391,433 Kinshasa Congo Burundi
Lubumbashi Dr Congo 1,373,770
Kampala Uganda 1,353,189
Douala Cameroon 1,338,082 Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
Yaounde Cameroon 1,299,369
Bamako Mali 1,297,281 Luanda
Brazzaville Congo 1,284,609 Seychelles
Lusaka Zambia 1,267,440 Lubumbashi
Omdurman Sudan 1,200,000
Maputo Mozambique 1,191,613 Angola
Port Harcourt Nigeria 1,148,665 Mozambique
Benin City Nigeria 1,125,058 Malawi Comoros
Maiduguri Nigeria 1,112,449 ZambiaLusaka
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 1,086,505
Zaria Nigeria 975,153 Harare
Port Elizabeth South Africa 967,677 Antananarivo
Monrovia Liberia 939,524 Zimbabwe
Abobo Ivory Coast 900,000 Namibia Mauritius
Madagascar
Botswana
Cities Population Petroria Maputo
Johannesburg
(2020)
>7M Eswatini
Soweto
4M - 3M
South
3M - 2M Africa Lesotho
2M - 1,5M
1,5M - 1,2M Cape Town Port Elizabeth
Durban
1,2M - 1M16 COUNTRY PRESENCE CURRENT PORTFOLIO 17
UN-Habitat remains committed to Africa. With the support from the African Development Bank and other The Regional Office for Africa covers Sub-Saharan Africa, consisting of 49 countries and 22 active countries.
development partners, UN-Habitat is keen to strengthen positive collaboration and partnerships with all levels However, the largest country project portfolios of UN-Habitat in Sub-Saharan Africa are in Somalia and the
of governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector and regional economic communities such as Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with a total portfolio of between US$20 million and US$30 million each.
the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC), and the In both countries, the projects focus on post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation. Other countries with
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), etc. sizeable portfolios (between US$2 million and US$8 million) include: Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria,
towards eradicating urban poverty and in transforming Africa’s urban development agenda. Guinea Conakry, Ghana and Sao Tome and Principe. The rest of the countries have smaller project portfolios
Regional Office for Africa has reorganize the management of its country programmes in order to optimize country (below US$2 million). These include South Sudan, Cameroon, Chad, Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso,
presence, in line with the current reorganized of the UN development system, especially reform of the Resident Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau and Comoros.
Coordinator and UN Country Team system, and is engaging more systematically with the UN regional coordination In addition, the regional office implements a number of multi-country or sub-regional projects ranging in size,
processes, especially the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM) and the UN Sustainable Development Group with the largest one (US$14 million) on building urban climate resilience covering four South-Eastern African
(Eastern and Southern Africa as well as Central and Western Africa). To achieve this, the Regional Office for Africa countries.
has prioritized all countries in its region on the basis of current projects, pipeline projects and status of discussions
with both national governments and potential donors. It is supporting the development of Habitat Country
Programme Documents (HCPD), as frameworks for resource mobilization and implementation and National
Urban Policies (NUP) and support to UN Resident Coordinators (RCs) and UN Country Teams (UNCTs) within the
sub-region in their efforts to mainstream urbanization issues, challenges and priorities.
Mauritania COUNTRY CURRENT Mauritania
PORTFOLIO (USD)
Mali Niger Chad Somalia $44.000.000,00 Mali Niger Chad
Cabo Verde Congo DR $24.000.000,00 Cabo Verde
Eritrea Ethiopia $2.500.000,00 Eritrea
Senegal São Tome & Principe $5.500.000,00 Senegal
Kenya $5.000.000,00
The Gambia The Gambia
Burkina Chad $4.150.004,00 Burkina
Guinea Bissau Faso Mozambique $7.000.000,00
Djibouti Guinea Bissau Faso Djibouti
Guinea South Sudan $1.500.000,00 Guinea
Conakry Benin Nigeria Zambia $1.311.400,00 Conakry Benin Nigeria
Togo South Sudan Uganda $1.200.000,00 Togo South Sudan
Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia Botswana $750.000,00 Sierra Leone Côte Ethiopia
D’Ivoire Ghana Central African Africa Urban Agenda Programme $709.000,00 D’Ivoire Ghana Central African
Liberia Republic Urban Resilience (DiMSUR) $625.000,00 Liberia Republic
Cameroon $421.924,00
Cameroon South Africa $15.000,00 Cameroon
SomaliaCabo Verde $375.000,00 Somalia
Rwanda $1.000.000,00
Equatorial Uganda Guinea Bissau $760.00,00 Equatorial Uganda
Guinea Congo Kenya Angola $120.000,00 Guinea Congo Kenya
São Tomé & São Tomé &
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville Democratic
Ghana $100.000,00
Príncipe Gabon Brazaville
Democratic
Lesotho $100.000,00
Republic of Rwanda Namibia $100.000,00 Republic of Rwanda
Congo Burundi Zimbabwe $70.000,00 Congo Burundi
Burkina Faso $50.000,00
Chad $50.000,00
Tanzania Malawi $50.000,00 Tanzania
Comoros $3.000.000,00
African Union/UNECA $0,00
Congo Brazzaville $500.000,00
Seychelles Seychelles
Equatorial Guinea $0,00
Eritrea $0,00
Angola Liberia $0,00 Angola
Mozambique Mauritius $0,00 Mozambique
Malawi ComorosNigeria $0,00 Malawi Comoros
Zambia Senegal $0,00 Zambia
Seychelles $0,00
Sierra Leone $0,00
Swaziland - eSwatini $0,00
Zimbabwe Madagascar
The Gambia $0,00 Zimbabwe Madagascar
Namibia Burundi $12,000 Mauritius Namibia Mauritius
TOTAL: $95.430.324,00
Current Portfolio Size
On going projects Botswana Botswana
Not only ROAF/All UNH projects
>10M
>10
10 - 7 5 - 10M
6-4 Eswatini 1 - 5M Eswatini
3-2 500K - 1M
South South
1 Africa Lesotho 500K - 100K Africa Lesotho
0/ Inactive >100K
No Funds
No information
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICATHEMATIC AREAS OF INTERVENTION 19
In terms of thematic focus, the largest operational projects in Africa focus on:
• Post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation
• Urban resilience and climate change adaptation.
Other projects cover:
• Urban resilience and climate change adaptation,
• Housing and slum upgrading,
• Urban basic services,
• Land management,
• Urban economy,
• Municipal finance,
• Urban and regional planning
• Policy development.
Mauritania
Mauritania
Cabo Verde MaliMali Niger
Niger Chad
Chad
Cabo Verde Mali Niger Chad
Cabo Verde
Senegal
Senegal
Senegal
The Gambia
The Gambia Burkina
Burkina
Faso
The Gambia
Guinea Bissau Guinea Burkina
Guinea Bissau Guinea Faso
Guinea Bissau Guinea Faso Benin
Conakry Benin
Conakry Nigeria
Conakry Benin
Togo Nigeria South Sudan
Côte Togo South Sudan Ethiopia
Sierra Leone Côte
D’Ivoire Ghana South Sudan Ethiopia
Côte Togo Ethiopia
Sierra Leone D’Ivoire Ghana
Liberia D’Ivoire
Liberia Ghana
Liberia Cameroon
Cameroon Somalia
Cameroon Somalia
Uganda Somalia
Uganda Kenya
São Tomé & Congo Uganda Kenya
São Tomé &
Príncipe Congo
Gabon Brazaville Democratic
Gabon Kenya
São Tomé &
Príncipe Brazaville Democratic
Republic of Rwanda
Rwanda
Príncipe Gabon Democratic
Republic
Congoof Rwanda
Burundi
Republic of
Congo Burundi
Congo Burundi Tanzania
Tanzania
Tanzania
Seychelles
Seychelles
Angola Seychelles
Angola Mozambique
Angola Mozambique
Malawi Comoros
Thematic Area Zambia
Malawi Mozambique Comoros
Thematic Area Zambia
PSUP Malawi Comoros
PSUP
NUP/urban-rural linkages Zambia
NUP/urban-rural linkages
Housing Zimbabwe Madagascar
Namibia Zimbabwe Madagascar Mauritius
Housing
Public Space
Namibia Zimbabwe Madagascar Mauritius
Public Space
GCRP Botswana
Namibia Mauritius
GCRP
Youth Botswana
DRR Thematic Area
Youth Botswana
CPI
CPIUrban Basic Services
Waste
Waste
Legislation, Land & Governance
GLTN
GLTN
Urban Planning & Design Lesotho
WatSan
WatSan
Housing & Slum Upgrading South
Mobility
Mobility Africa Lesotho
Countries where ROAf Urban Economy South
was Active 2018 Climate
Climate Change
Change
Disaster Risk Reduction Africa Lesotho
Countries where ROAf
was Active 2018 Planning
Planning
Countries where ROAf
was Active 2018
Village of Nioumachoua, Mohéli Island,
Union of the Comoros ©ShutterstockFRAMEWORK OF INTERVENTION 21
• SDGs 2030 with a focus on SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities
UN-HABITAT STRATEGIC PLAN
• New Urban Agenda 2016-2036
• Africa Agenda 2063
• UN-Habitat Strategic Plan 2020-2023:
2020-2023
AFRICAN UNION Harmonized Regional Framework
for the Implementation of the New Urban Agenda
THEORY OF CHANGE
AFRICA AGENDA 2063 UN-HABITAT STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023
Objective
Sustainable urbanization is advanced as a driver of development
and peace, to improve living conditions for all
Reduced spatial
Domains of Change
inequality and Enhanced Strengthened
Effective
poverty in shared climate action
urban crisis
communities prosperity and improved
prevention
across the of cities and urban
and response
urban - rural regions environment
DEVELOPMENT
3 continuum
Organizational Drivers of
performance change
enablers
1. Policy & Increased and equal Reduced
1. Monitoring & Legislation Enhanced social
access to basic Improved spatial greenhouse gas
knowledge integration
services, sustainable connectivity and emissions and
2. Urban and inclusive
mobility and public productivity improved air
2. Innovation Planning and communities
space quality
Design
3. Advocacy,
communication 3. Governance
and outreach
4. Financing
Increased and Improved living
LUS 17 2030
SDGAGENDA
ICONSFOR
• GUIDELINES FOR USE - SDG
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
4. Partnerships Mechanisms
secure access
Increased Improved
standards and
Outcomes
and equitably resource
to land and inclusion of
5. Capacity distributed efficiency and
building adequate and migrants, refugees
locally generated protection of
affordable and internally
revenues ecological assets
6. Systems and housing displaced persons
processes
Effective Expanded Effective Enhanced
settlements deployment of adaptation of resilience of the
growth and frontier technologies communities and built environment
regeneration and innovations infrastructure to and infrastructure
climate change
Social inclusion issues: (1) Human rights; (2) Gender; (3) Children, youth and Older Persons; (4) Disability
EM
17 SDG ICONS Crosscutting thematic areas: (1) Resilience; (2) Safety
N 2] NEW URBAN AGENDA
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DED ON THE INTERNET, THESE GUIDELINES MUST BE UPLOADED ON THE SAME PAGE.
d the SDG logo, including the colour wheel, to graphically promote awareness of the Sustainable Development
resolution A/RES/70/1 of the General Assembly of 25 September 2015.22 23
PRIORITY FOCUS AREA
Land Municipal Finance Slum Upgrading
Legislation Local Economy Development Resilience
Local Government and Decentralisation Youth and Livelihood Rehabilitation
Safer Cities Energy Risk Reduction
Climate Change Mobility Advocacy
Urban Planning and Design Water and Sanitation Innovation
Regional and Metropolitan Planning Waste Management Migration
Public Space Housing
ANGOLA
UN-HABITAT’S WORK IN THE COUNTRY
Country overview National Urban and Territorial Development Policy (PNOTU): providing technical assistance for the Ministry of Spatial
On 30 October 2015, the eve of World Cities Day, UN-Habitat’s office in Luanda was officially inaugurated within the Finan- Planning and Housing (MINOTH) on the development of a policy framework including legal, institutional and programmatic
cial Contribution Agreement of the Ministry of Urban Planning and Housing (MINUHA) with the Program for the develop- aspects in line with the Constitutional articles and the New Urban Agenda principles.
ment of the National Policy for Territorial and Urban Planning (PNOTU).
In 2016, UN-HABITAT prepared the Country Programme Document 2017-2021 for UN-HABITAT in Angola, endorsed by National Housing Policy: supporting the National Housing Direction at MINOTH, the National Housing Institute (INH) and
MINUHA, which aims to establish a strategic framework for the implementation of programmes, projects and activities of the Housing Development Fund (FFH) to jointly develop a policy framework in line with the global Habitat Housing strategy,
the Programme, as well as serve as a platform to fund raise for the maintenance of UN-HABITAT in the country. the New Urban Agenda and the current Angolan economic scenario.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Within the framework of PNOTU, a legal, institutional and socio-economic spatial diagnostic of the country has been de- 3
veloped to support territory and urban planning. In addition, the main policy guidelines and evolution of the policy were New Urban Agenda for Angola: supporting the domestication of the New Urban Agenda in Angola, including translation
defined in line with the current country priorities. into Portuguese, its adaptation, domestication as well as its dissemination through lectures and awareness raising to differ-
The development of the National Housing Policy has already been approved by the Board of Directors of MINUHA, for which ent government institutions and civil organizations.
GOALS (SDG)
UN-HABITAT Angola in partnership with the Housing Unit of UN-Habitat in Nairobi, should support the Government to
achieve. Urbanization Atlas of Angola: preparation, publication and dissemination of the Urbanization Atlas of Angola, based on
Furthermore, UN-HABITAT provides high-level advocacy to civil society, academia, government agencies and development data from the lastest Population and Housing Census and satellite images to track and record the expansion of Angolan
partners through discussions, lectures and technical assistance on the New Urban Agenda, Sustainable Development Goal cities.
11, Housing and Sustainable Urban Development.
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS THAT ARE RELEVANT
OVERVIEW
SDG LOGO, INCLUDING THE COLOUR WHEEL, PLUS 17 TO
SDGUN-HABITAT’S WORK IN THIS
ICONS • GUIDELINES FORCOUNTRY
USE
Total Population (2018) Location
30,780,974
Urban Population (2018)
65.5%- 20,161,538
Urban Growth Rate (2015-2020)
4.32%
No. of Projects (2018-2019)
01
Total value of projects (2019)
$120,000 SDG LOGO WITH UN EMBLEM SDG LOGO WITHOUT UN EMBLEM
UN-HABITAT ANGOLA 17 SDG ICONS
FOR UN ENTITIES [VERSION 1] FOR NON-UN ENTITIES [VERSION 2]
THE CHALLENGE
According to National Institute of Statistics, Angola’s urban population reached 62.6% in 2014. The majority of the urban
population is concentrated in coastal cities, especially Luanda, Benguela and Cabinda, with a high exposure to the effects of
climate change. Also, despite massive governmental investments on housing and urban infrastructure since early 2000’s, the
urbanisation process resulted mainly from an informal occupation THESE GUIDELINES
of land. MUSTagglomerations
The biggest urban BE PROVIDED TOLuanda,
are: REQUESTERS.
with 6,760,444 inhabitants (41.9% of the total urban population); WHENEVER THE SDG LOGOwith
Benguela-Catumbela-Lobito, AND/OR ICONS
1,083,417 ARE UPLOADED ON THE INTERNET, THESE GUIDELINES MUST BE UPLOADED ON THE SAME PAGE.
inhabitants
(6.70%); Lubango, with 600,751 inhabitants (3.72%); Huambo, with 595,304 inhabitants (3.69%); and Cabinda, with
516,711 inhabitants (3.20%). These cities concentrate almost 60% I. DESCRIPTION
of the total urban population of Angola and 37.1% of
the country’s total population. The United Nations has commissioned seventeen (17) icons and the SDG logo, including the colour wheel, to graphically promote awareness of the Sustainable Development
According to the Census 2014, 87.2% of the private-owned urban Goalshousing stock
adopted byof Angola
the result
Member from of
States self-construction,
the United Nations by resolution A/RES/70/1 of the General Assembly of 25 September 2015.
57.2% of urban households have access to safe water, 81.8% have access to proper sanitation facilities, 50.9% have access
to electricity and only 37.5% benefit from an adequate solid waste management system.
II. USE OF THE SDG LOGO AND 17 ICONS
USE BY UN ENTITIES
Meeting of the Executive Director, Urban Walk 2017 - Baixa de Luanda - Urban Walk 2017 - Baixa de Luanda - Informal Settlements Debate in Luanda
Use of the SDG logo [Version 1 with the UN emblem] and 17 icons by United
UN-Habitat withNations offices,
Hon. Mrs. Ana Paula Funds
Advocacyand Programmes
for New and other
Urban Agenda and subsidiary
Tour guides: Angela Mingas, organs
Secretary andwith
organizations
stakeholders © UN-Habitat Angola
de Carvalho, Minister of Housing and Sustainable Development Goals of State for Territorial Development of
of the United Nations System Territorial Development, Angola during © UN-Habitat Angola MINOTH, and Thomaz Ramalho, Human
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS WUF 9 in Kuala Lumpur © UN-Habitat Settlements Officer - UN-Habitat.
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA United Nations offices, Funds and Programmes and other subsidiary organs and organizations of the United Nations System may use the SDG logo [Version 1 with the UN emblem]
© UN-Habitat Angola
and 17 SDG icons without obtaining prior approval from the UN Department of Public Information (DPI), except for when uses other than those described in these guidelines are
requested (see page 19). However, for reporting purposes, DPI should be informed of events and information materials for which the SDG logo and the icons are being used including,24 25
BENIN BOTSWANA
Country overview
UN-Habitat’s interventions
UN-Habitat is committed to continue its strong cooperation with the government of Benin. Benin is part of the UEMOA
Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP): UN-Habitat has been supporting the Government of Botswana in the
sub-regional African organization. UN-Habitat and UEMOA (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine) signed a MoU
development of Housing policies, improving livelihoods through normative work and projects as well as strategies to address
(Memorandum of Understanding) in 2010 to mainstream their partnership on urban and housing thematic on the sub-re-
slums. The government supported in developing urban profiles for various towns including Gaborone.The funding is by the
gion.
European Commission and community management funds.
In 2014, The Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme was implemented with a focus on the development of strategies
for slum upgrading. The programme also aimed at improving the institutional coordination and institutional responsibilities,
SDG Monitoring: UN-Habitat availed funds to monitor SDG 11 in Botswana which was selected as one of the pilot coun-
and identifying the role of key ministries, NGO, the private sector, and the donors in the strategies for slum upgrading, par-
tries in Africa. Trainings were held for the national and local governments. The interventions will be used to achieve SDG 11
ticularly, in the three cities of Cotonou, Abomey and Tchaourou.
in Botswana.
OVERVIEW
Total Population (2019) Location
UN-Habitat Country Programme document: The Government of Botswana has already highlighted priority areas for the
11,488,642 country programme. The process will be finalized once the signing of the MOU is completed for the Government to allocate
financial resources for the development and the implementation of the UN-Habitat Country Programme.
Urban Population (2019)
47.3%- 5,434,128
Urban Growth Rate (2015-2020)
3.89% OVERVIEW
No. of Projects (2018-2019)
Total Population (2018) Location
00 2,334,763
Total value of projects (2019)
Urban Population (2018)
00 69.4%-1,620,326
THE CHALLENGE Urban Growth Rate (2015-2020)
In Benin, rural areas become urban centers and urban centers become large metropolitan areas, there is an increased compe- 2.87%
tition as well as demand for land for different purposes. This requires adequate planning and control to ensure harmonious No. of Projects (2018-2019)
development and functional efficiency of these uses and settlements (Aribigbola, 2008). The effective urban land control and 02
management, particularly in areas with rapid urban sprawl, is crucial to tackling growing land use problems such as slum
formation, rising cost of land, accessibility to urban land for housing, incompatible use, flooding and congestion among Total value of projects (2019)
others for the purpose of achieving sustainable city development and ensure the safety and health of the people. $ 450,000
UN-HABITAT BENIN THE CHALLENGE
In Botswana, the increase of urbanization rates is mainly determined by two phenomena: the rural to urban migration typ-
ical of dry lands where livelihood opportunity in the countryside are more and more scarce because of water scarcity, and
the peri-urban migration. In general, the country has seen its population concentrating in urban areas according to their
vocation. Towns like Serowe and Palapye have been attracting population because of their concentrated employment op-
portunities mainly associated with services and industries. Maun and Kasane, being the tourism hub of the country, have
seen growing urbanization rates associated with employment within the tourism sector. The construction of the trans-kal-
ahari highway and the trade exchange at the gate with Namibia contributed to the accelerated growth of Ghanzi’s town.
Gaborone’s urban growth has been mainly characterized, on the other side, by the peri-urban migration phenomena. Peri
urban areas in Botswana play a vital role in urbanization because they absorb much of the population that, coming from
the rural areas, is not accommodated in cities, primarily because of the shortage in affordable land and housing. Drivers of
peri-urbanisations are financial capital (industries) and public policy, which aim to divert new housing development to the
peri urban areas, like Mogodisthane or Tlokweng, to decongest and improve the living conditions of the city centers. Both in
the case of the “vocational” migration and the peri-urban migration, vulnerability of the urban context is highly determined
Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme (PSUP) | Slums, Habitats, Programming Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme Empowers Women and Girls through by the great pressure that high concentration of people put on unplanned urban settlements whose services networks, such
© UN-Habitat PSUP Community-Managed Funding
© UN-Habitat PSUP
as health, education, water, electricity and transport are mostly underdeveloped.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ATLAS
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA26 27
PRIORITY FOCUS AREA
Land Municipal Finance Slum Upgrading
Legislation Local Economy Development Resilience
Local Government and Decentralisation Youth and Livelihood Rehabilitation
Safer Cities Energy Risk Reduction
Climate Change Mobility Advocacy
Urban Planning and Design Water and Sanitation Innovation
Regional and Metropolitan Planning Waste Management Migration
Public Space Housing
BURKINA FASO UN-HABITAT’S WORK IN THE COUNTRY
Establishing a Metropolitan Governance and planning system for the Greater Ouagadougou (2019): With the support of UN-Habitat, a Memo-
randum of Understanding was signed in September 2019 between Ouagadougou and its surroundings municipalities (Loumbila, Pabre, Saaba, Komsilga,
Country overview Koubri and Tanghin-Dassouri), to establish the inter-municipal cooperation for the metropolitan governance and define the steps forward for its implemen-
UN-Habitat is committed to continue its long-standing cooperation with the government of Burkina Faso, which started in tation.
1972. UN-Habitat’s technical assistance included support to the elaboration of urban policy, upgrading of urban settlements Centre of Excellence for Housing with UEMOA: UN-Habitat is supporting the establishment of a sub-regional Center of Excellence on Housing within
an academic institution serving as an innovative and sustainable knowledge hub that provides data, knowledge, expertise and long term capacity building
and environmental approaches to constructions. We are engaged in pursuing our work in partnership with the local author- and training services to develop the skills of urban sustainability practitioners in the eight countries of the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union
ities. (WAEMU – Burkina Faso, Sénégal, Mali, Niger, Togo, Bénin, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast). The Center of Excellence is set up at the University of Ouagadou-
The UEMOA (Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine), is a sub-regional African organisation covering 8 countries gou, Burkina Faso with the support of the University of Dakar in Senegal and UN-Habitat.
in West Africa i.e Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. It’s headquarter is based Identification of urban durable solutions for integrating IDPs: the objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of the municipalities affected
by the massive internal displacement of populations and to contribute to the prevention of an increase in tensions between displaced and host communi-
in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. UN-Habitat and UEMOA signed a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) in 2010 to main-
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ties by improving living conditions, implementation of durable solutions and the promotion of inclusion (and therefore the non-stigmatization of IDPs) and
stream their partnership on urban and housing thematic on the sub-region. social cohesion. 3
Development of the National Urban Policy (NUP) - UN-Habitat is supporting the Government of Burkina Faso in the development of his National
‘’A team of UN-Habitat came to train us in plumbing and thanks to this project, I can handle most plumbing Urban Policy (NUP). In the context where urbanization, fueled by migratory and natural balances, has generated urban development issues specific to the
works and have skills such as fixing a tab or a toilet, even moving it if necessary and working on connections. country. Cities and towns of Burkina Faso are facing a rapid sprawl, lack of planning, basic services and infrastructure, and weak governance and financial
systems, among other challenges. Its speed is an obstacle to the real-time consideration of these issues by public policies. The challenge for national and
GOALS (SDG)
I didn’t expect to have a training that kind and quality, I didn’t have anything to do, I was sitting at home all
local authorities and civil society organizations would be to control and manage this urban growth, in the big cities as well as in the medium and small
day, but thanks to this project I can handle things and be useful. It helped me a lot.’’ cities of the country. A recent assessment on the NPHUD implementation showed that a new National Urban Policy (NUP) should be prepared through a
multi-sectorial, inclusive and participatory approach, which can place urbanization as a key factor to achieve sustainable development in Burkina Faso. This
Samateou Moaida, Sociologistic, Agence Perspective will be implemented with the funds from the Andalusian Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AACID)for approximately Euro 70 000 and
the contribution of Burkina Faso.
OVERVIEW IMPACT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS THAT ARE RELEVANT
Total Population (2018) Location SDG LOGO,26,000
INCLUDING
victims of climateTHE
related COLOUR
TO UN-HABITAT’S WORK IN THIS COUNTRY
disasters in 2018WHEEL, PLUS 17 SDG ICONS • GUIDELINES FOR USE
29,890,567 against 34,000 in 2017
3,316 homeless in 2017 against 1,139 in 2018
Urban Population (2018)
19.4%- 5,798,770 More than 14,000 persons benefited from the
Participatory Slum Upgrading Program in regional
Urban Growth Rate (2015-2020) capitals
4.99%
No. of Projects (2018-2019)
01
Total value of projects (2019)
$50,000
SDG LOGO WITH UN EMBLEM SDG LOGO WITHOUT UN EMBLEM UN-HABITAT BURKINA FASO 17 SDG ICONS
FOR UN ENTITIES [VERSION 1] FOR NON-UN ENTITIES [VERSION 2]
THE CHALLENGE
In Burkina Faso, the urban population increased from 15,5% in 1996 to 31,5% in 2016. It is expected to reach 52% by
2050. Cities and towns of Burkina Faso are facing rapid sprawl, lack of planning, basic services and infrastructure, and weak
governance and financial systems, among other challenges.
THESE GUIDELINES MUST BE PROVIDED TO REQUESTERS.
Urban growth in Burkina Faso remains polarized in the two majorWHENEVER THE SDG
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