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Uganda's national urban policy

24 May 2013

As an explicitly pro-poor policy, the NUP has the potential to fill in gaps in existing national policy, which fail to The CIGI-Africa Initiative Policy Brief series presents analysis and adequately identify and respond to urban poverty, particularly in the overlapping commentary emerging from field- areas of gender and food security. [...] Findings and support from a variety of international, national and local partners and stakeholders, recommendations in this peer-reviewed who hold different priorities and levels of influence in producing, implementing series aim to inform policy making and to contribute to the overall African and monitoring the final document. [...] The urban campaign is also under direction of the SDI and ACTogether are both part of the NUF and are the Ministry for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, but lead partners in TSUPU, focussing primarily on urban in addition to the development of the NUP this campaign communities in five pilot cities (Aruja, Jinja, Mbale, Mbarara has also advanced four additional components: and Kabale). [...] In light • Transforming the Settlements for the Urban Poor in of growing concerns with urban sprawl — in particular Uganda (TSUPU) is a program targeting Uganda’s of slum settlements and the difficulties in managing land secondary cities “to align urban development efforts rights, service provision and security concerns — this was at the national government, local government and the initial impetu [...] Its assessment of gendered urban This focus is important for supporting goals of economic needs and grassroots strategies is not adequately open growth, which is clearly the central priority of the to new perspectives or the full multidimensionality of government, as well as a necessary correlate to poverty experiences of the poor.
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Authors

Brown, Andrea M

Pages
14
Published in
Canada

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