Title: Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS) for Improved Urban Environment and Poverty Reduction
1Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS)
for Improved Urban Environment and Poverty
Reduction
2Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS)
- Socioeconomic future of nations increasingly
determined in urban areas - Global process of decentralization shifting power
resources to cities and citizens - Quality of urban governance differentiates
declining cities from prosperous ones - CDS is an initiative of UN-HABITAT with support
from SIDA - Support for urban development and environment is
priority area for Sida - Bukoba, Entebbe, Homa Bay, Kampala, Kisumu, and
Musoma councils are implementers - UN-HABITAT working in partnership with cities to
improve opportunities for all citizens in an
inclusive manner esp. urban poor and women - CDS goal - collective city vision and action plan
to improve urban governance and management,
increase investment to expand employment and
services, and systematic and sustained reductions
in urban poverty - CDS applied in Asia, Africa, Europe and
L.America(160 cities worldwide
3Lake Victoria City Development Strategies (CDS)
- CDS aim is to mobilize city authorities and
stakeholders in Lake region to develop a
programme for laying out City Development
Strategies. - The strategies uphold popular, private and public
participation and decision-making in efforts to
improve the living conditions and environment for
urban dwellers. - Lake Victoria is 2nd largest fresh water body
shared by Kenya (6), Tanzania (49) and Uganda
(45) - 1/3 of combined population of Kenya, Tanzania and
Uganda derive livelihood from the lake through
fishing and agriculture. - Lake represents important economic resource for
the region which can only be sustained if the
lake's rich and diverse ecosystem is well managed.
4Lake Victoria CDS Project Sites
5Project Sites Profile
6Project Sites Selection Criteria
- Cities selected in consultation with LVRLAC
- Phase II secondary cities selected i.e.
population lt100,000 - Secondary cities can influence larger cities
- Larger cities have many other ongoing initiatives
7 General framework for participatory CDS process
comprises Phase 1 Preparing for the CDS Phase
3 Action Plan Phase 2 Identification of Key
Areas Phase 4 Implementation
8Capacity Building Issues - Kampala Workshop
- Key issue emerging related to human resources
specifically ability to relate and professionally
prepare and implement CDS - Assessed training needed to effectively practice
participatory planning during life of the CDS - Councils encouraged to building capacity in
financial resources and capital mobilization - Key challenge for Phase I CDS cities was
inadequate capacity to undertake CDS preparation - Focal point staff reported that councils do not
have enough qualified staff to do the task - Furthermore, stakeholders representatives
nominated as working group members did not
easily assimilate to task. - Challenge was posed by councillors, who took a
bit longer to buy into the idea of CDS - CDS process seen as building another layer of
power - Process requires council to share a lot of
information with public, which is not the usual
practice - explains why cities took longer to
complete CDS
9Bukoba Capacity Building Action Plan
10Entebbe Capacity Building Action Plan
11Homa Bay Capacity Building Action Plan
12Capacity Building Issues - Entebbe
- Entebbe ToT Capacity Building Workshop covered
- City Development Strategy (CDS) Process
- Preparing a City Profile
- Participatory Planning
- Communication and Information Sharing
- Teamwork and Team Building
- Resource Mobilization
- Project Management
- Negotiation Skills
13Capacity Building Achievements
- Cities understand better how to practice
participatory planning during the CDS process - Participants better placed to perfect art of
communication and negotiation skills - Council officials and stakeholders can better
negotiate successfully among themselves - CDS working group members synergies and teamwork
improved - LAs improve on own revenue sources and skills to
seek external funding - Participants better understand how to implement
manage action plans - Participants well equipped to form a training of
trainers resource pool
14Capacity Building Outputs
- Financing Toolkit - LAs equipped with integrated
tools for resource mobilization - Training course on Municipal Planning and Service
Delivery - MASHAV, Jerusalem, Oct - Nov 2006 - Kampala 2nd Generation Induction Workshop - May
2005 - Capacity Building Action Plan
- Entebbe ToT Capacity Building Workshop - July
2005 - Lake Victoria CDS Cities Websites and Training
Manual produced - Lake Victoria Cleanup Week - annual event
- Lake Victoria Environmental Management Award
recognizes achievers in environmental management
15Recommendations and Way Forward
- Training to strengthen stakeholders capacities
- Councils utilize financing toolkit to guide them
on raising resource - HIV/AIDS Action Plans to be part of the CDS
activity for the lake region - Phase I CDS cities to act as resource cities for
consolidating the CDS which is an ongoing process - Develop a mechanism for working with and building
capacity of CBOs/NGOs at the city level -
partnership with ECOVIC and LVRLAC. - Setting up of the Mayors Advisory Council.
- Expand the programme to other municipalities
- Institutionalization of the CDS process
- Pioneer CDS cities is to apply their acquired
skills and share information with the Second
Generation cities. He called for the bringing
onboard of new stakeholders and up-scaling of
information about the region - Second Generation cities - strive to have true
stakeholder participation by having strong,
active, successful, productive and honest
interactions with various stakeholders