Urban planning was traditionally seen as a means to control and regulate the development of towns and cities. In the cities of the developing world, however, traditional planning approaches have failed to address the challenges of rapid urbanisation and the poverty, exclusion, informality and vulnerability it brings in its wake.
This intervention contributes towards sustainable human settlements development in general, as well as prevention, upgrading and integration of unplanned settlements, and the management of post-conflict and post-disaster situations, in particular.
In these projects, Africa 70 dealt with the lack of an efficient management at urban level and tackled the problems related to the rapid increase of the population due to the consistent influx of internally displaced people (IDPs).
It enhanced the development of the town of Bosaso as holistic entity and contributing therefore to local and national economic and social development, through the support of the adoption and the enforcement of a strategy for its urban management.
In particular, its intervention aimed at promoting the restoration of post civil war normalcy in North East Somalia, by strengthening the capacity of service delivery of competent authorities
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