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Principais notícias sobre Terra, Habitação, Violência Baseada no Gênero e Microfinanças.Deste modo este documento é uma compilação dos extratos de imprensas mensais onde vem selecionado noticias relacionadas com a terra, habitação, meios de subsistencia, ambiente e violência do género.

O Extracto de imprensa é um produto do Centro de  Documentação da Development Workshop Angola que desde 2001 tem estado a trabalhar na recolha, no armazenamento e na disseminação de informação sobre desenvolvimento socioeconómico do País. Deste modo este documento é uma compilação dos extratos de imprensas mensais onde vem selecionado noticias relacionadas com a terra, habitação, meios de subsistência, ambiente e violência do género.

Este documento é uma compilação dos extratos de imprensas mensais onde vem selecionado noticias relacionadas com a terra, habitação, meios de subsistencia, ambiente e violência do género. Pretende-se com esta parte dos extratos de imprensa ser um veiculo de informações ligados as temáticas mencionadas para os diferentes interessados principalmente os distintos beneficiarios do projecto “Espaço Mulher” que está sendo implementado pelo sector de terras da DWA nos municipios do Huambo, Chicala Cholohanga e Cachiungo.

Este documento é uma compilação dos extratos de imprensas mensais onde vem selecionado noticias relacionadas com a terra, habitação, meios de subsistencia, ambiente e violência do género. Pretende-se com esta parte dos extratos de imprensa ser um veiculo de informações ligados as temáticas mencionadas para os diferentes interessados principalmente os distintos beneficiarios do projecto “Espaço Mulher” que está sendo implementado pelo sector de terras da DWA nos municipios do Huambo, Chicala Cholohanga e Cachiungo.

The need to make cities in Africa ‘more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, as encapsulated in the stand-alone urban goal 11 adopted as part of the 17 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, is undisputed as rapid urban growth rates are set to make the African region a key hub in the global transition to a predominantly urban world. This will not only require new and more transformative public policies that address the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, but also data to inform planning, implementation and reporting.

Since the end of the civil war in 2002, the government of Angola has used Chinese credit facilities backed by petroleum-based guarantees to build prestige urban projects on a scale that in sub-Saharan Africa is second only to post-apartheid South Africa. Decades of rural-urban migration have turned Angola into one of Africa’s most urbanized countries, with 62% of its population living in cities. State-delivered subsidized housing has satisfied an important segment of the middle-class and better-paid civil servants, but few of the urban poor benefited from Angola’s major budget allocations for housing that failed to deliver on commitments made to build sustainable and equitable cities. With the collapse of oil prices after 2014, the Angolan state budget has been drastically reduced, and it is unlikely that the government will be able to provide investment and subsidies to continue building new large-scale housing projects. While the private sector, both international and local, has to date, been a major beneficiary of construction contracts from the state. The private sector has been reluctant to provide its own financing and to invest in real estate itself, due to weak land tenure and the lack of legislative reforms to make a functional land market. Solving the problems around land may be a way to stimulate the engagement of private-sector participation in providing direct financing for the housing sector.

The Angolan State’s post-war center-piece reconstruction program, to provide the human right to ‘Water to All’, remains incomplete. The majority of Angola’s peri-urban communities still use the informal market to fill the gap. Water selling is the largest sub-sector of Luanda’s extensive informal economy, involving extractors, transporters and retailers. Negotiating for water at the local household level involves significant trading in social capital. Communities in Angola’s musseques have built on neighborhood solidarity to manage the supply of water themselves. The article is drawn from the authors’ experience in practice to examine the complexity of Angola’s informal
water economy and local-level innovative responses. The Government has drawn on these lessons and adopted the community management model MoGeCA (the Portuguese language acronym for Model of Community Water Management)to help address the shortfall. The article is written from a practitioner’s point of view, based on more than a decade of experimentation in practice and support from USAID and UNICEF in taking community management to the national scale.

The majority of Angola’s peri-urban population still rely on informal mechanisms for water supply. This water is expensive and of poor quality, representing a significant household expenditure for the urban poor. The article uses qualitative tools and tracking of the supply chain to analyze the scope of the informal water economy in Luanda. Marketing water at the local household level involves significant trading in social capital. A financially sustainable model of community water management that builds on this neighbourhood social capital has been adopted by the government for implementation across the country.

Africa has some of the world’s most unequal cities. Informal settlements in African cities, and the struggles that are fought in their defense, are evidence of deep-rooted exclusion. They have inherited colonial segregated planning laws that are socio-economically exclusive, resulting in cement cities and slums. In many African former colonial countries, a struggle for a right to the city formed an integral part of the fight against colonialism and apartheid. In the decades since independence, few African states have been able to develop and implement reforms governing urban development to effectively improve these characteristics of their cities.