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Urban Expansion Planning in the Horn of Africa
A workshop on long-term urban expansion planning for rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the cities of Borama and Gabiley. On invitation only.
In partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Cities Alliance Cities and Migration programme has identified a promising approach to help cities in low-income countries better manage rural-urban migration: urban expansion planning.
The programme supports nine cities across the Horn of Africa to apply proactive and climate-sensitive urban expansion planning to enable the integration of migrants through better connections of the urban periphery to the existing city. The cities of Borama and Gabiley, in Somaliland, participate in the programme as learning cities.
On 9 and 10 March, the Hargeysa Cultural Centre (HCC) and Cities Alliance will host a workshop on Managing Urban Expansion. The event will convene ministerial, regional and local urban government stakeholders of Somaliland, academic institutions as well as development partners.
The workshop aims at creating awareness and deepening the understanding of the purpose and relevance of long-term urban expansion planning for rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, review the progress of Borama and Gabily Urban Expansion teams to date, prepare the first draft of their urban expansion plans, define key steps, roles, responsibilities, and the timeline for the finalization and approval of the plans and mobilise high-level political and technical buy-in at a national level.