Coastal cities in Africa, which comprise some of the continent’s most important hubs of industry and commerce, are also experiencing rapid population growth. As these cities grow, problems with inadequate housing, water and sanitation infrastructure are worsening. Lack of effective planning is also increasing the vulnerability of poor urban people, which is often made worse by impacts of climate change, such as flooding (storm surges and rainstorms), sea level rise, and ground water salinization. Many African countries do not have the capacity and financial resources to tackle these issues effectively. Disaster preparedness and risk management plans are vital components required for effective climate change adaptation.
IDRC’s Climate Change and Water program has supported research on urban adaptation processes in various coastal areas around the developing world. This brief synthesizes the lessons

A Development Workshop Angola, em parceria com a Rede de Luta Contra Pobreza Urbana ,apresentou o workshop sobre O Direito a Cidade, que se  realizou na  Sexta-feira, dia 14 de Outubro, às 14:00 no Anfiteatro da Faculdade de Arquitectura, Av. Ho Chi Minh. O Workshop teve como objectivo Promover uma reflexão com actores chaves e comunidades para partilhar conhecimentos e experiências e identificar consensos que permitam uma convivência mais inclusiva e com iguais oportunidades de desenvolvimento. Pretende-se também que seja uma oportunidade de estreitamento de relações entre diversos actores da sociedade civil, academia, governo e sector privado que actuam nesta área.

A Development Workshop Angola, em parceria com a Rede de Luta Contra Pobreza Urbana ,apresentou o workshop sobre O Direito a Cidade, que se  realizou na  Sexta-feira, dia 14 de Outubro, às 14:00 no Anfiteatro da Faculdade de Arquitectura, Av. Ho Chi Minh. O Workshop teve como objectivo Promover uma reflexão com actores chaves e comunidades para partilhar conhecimentos e experiências e identificar consensos que permitam uma convivência mais inclusiva e com iguais oportunidades de desenvolvimento. Pretende-se também que seja uma oportunidade de estreitamento de relações entre diversos actores da sociedade civil, academia, governo e sector privado que actuam nesta área.

The Kilamba project became the show-piece of Angola’s Housing and Urban Development Program announced by the President in 2008. With US$ 3.5 billion financing from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, purportedly backed by oil-revenues, the project was built in a record 18 months by CITIC a major Chinese consortium and completed in 2012. The Kilamba City project, includes 750 apartment buildings, schools, and more than 100 retail units. The new city was built to accommodate 160,000 people in 20,000 flats, each with a floor area of between 110 and 150 m2 and costing from US$120,000 to US$200,000. SONIP Housing had been created in 2013 as a real-estate arm of the Angolan state petroleum company SONANGOL. It was given the mandate to commercialize, manage and distribute 33,255 housing units of which 20,000 of them were in the recently completed Kilamba City. Kilamba has gained fame as being the largest Chinese built housing complex in Africa and the show-case of Angola’s post-war National Urban Housing Program. During the first year of SONIP’s management of Kilamba, it only distributed 12,425 units and acquired a substantial waiting list of impatient aspirant clients. Smaller, most affordable, three bedroom T3 units were in great demand but the larger expensive five-bedroom

units remained empty. By September 2013 the three and four bedroom units were exhausted2, and clients reluctantly accepted the larger units, but often expressed concerns about their capacity to make the payments of US$ 12,000 per year.