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The establishment of two citywide Slum
Upgrading Funds in Ghana was announced
during the 15-16 April 2008 meeting of the
Consultative Board of UN-HABITAT’s Slum
Upgrading Facility, held in Accra.
The Sekondi
Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly Citywide Slum
Upgrading Fund (STMA CSUF) has
been established to facilitate mobilization
of finance for slum and settlement upgrading
activities in low-income settlements in
Sekondi Takoradi, a regional capital of
approximately 260,000 on Ghana’s Southwest
coast. The main beneficiaries are
anticipated to be predominately low-income
settlements in the Kojokrom and New Takoradi
areas of STMA.
[See:
Ghana article on page 4 of UN-Habitat April
2008 newsletter]
The Tema and Ashaiman Municipal Slum Upgrading
Facility was formed for a similar purpose for the
Tema municipal area, which is a rapidly growing
industrial and port city of 230,000 near Accra. It
aims to improve sanitation, water supply, housing,
livelihoods and infrastructure by facilitating
access to commercial and public resources required
for upgrading. [See:
Ghana article on page 3 of UN-Habitat January 2008
newsletter]
These two funds are among a group of Local Finance
Facilities being established under the Slum
Upgrading Facility (SUF) of UN-HABITAT. Ghana is one
of four pilot countries for SUF, along with Sri
Lanka, Indonesia and Tanzania. Project sites in Sri
Lanka were visited during the October 2007
Consultative Board meeting held in Colombo, and the
October 2008 visit will be to Solo, Indonesia.
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The SUF project teams are helping partners
in the pilot countries to build links
between households, communities, local
government and local financial markets,
through local finance facilities designed to
help manage this complexity.
The Consultative Board meetings included a
visit to the site of a project being
prepared for the Tema and Ashaiman fund, in
support of the Amui Djor branch of the Ghana
Federation for the Urban Poor, with the Amui
Djor Development Committee.
The SUF Consultative Board consists of
UN-HABITAT, the main donors to the facility
(UK-DFID, Norway and Sweden’s
Sida); re- |
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The local chief (Tema Mantse)
addressing the group (community in
front, SUF Consultative Board
members behind). |
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presentatives of Shack/Slum Dwellers International,
United Cities and Local Governments, and World Bank;
and, private financial sector representatives. The
Cities Alliance administers DFID’s funding for SUF,
and the Emerging Markets Group is lead consultant to
UN-HABITAT for the project.
For more information, please visit UN-HABITAT’s website
at
http: www.unhabitat.org.
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