A apresentação por Allan Cain no methode de DW de Monitoria Participativa da Pobreza Urbana. O Governo de Angola tem a responsibilidade de monitorar o progresso de determinados indicadores das Metas do Desenvolvimento do Milénio, através de métodos realistas, precisos e periódicos para mostrar mudanças ao longo do tempo. Daí surge o projecto do Sistema Nacional de Informacao  Terrritorial. Observatório Urbano Províncias piloto: Luanda e Huambo. Colaboração: MINUC – INOTU e DW com o co-financiamento de NORAD.

Para  Ministro do Urbanismo e Constução. Objectivos das nossas Acções: Contribuir para a efectividade dos programas e políticas públicas; Melhoria da qualidade de vida dos cidadãos; Contribuir para que as políticas e estratégias governamentais tenham em consideração as mudanças da realidade do contexto pós-conflito; Contribuir no processo de requalificação, criação de habitação social e prevenção de Musseques.

This presentation on the Luanda Urban Poverty Programme (LUPP) was given by DW Advocacy Team in Pretoria. LUPP was implemented in 1999 by a consortium partnership of NGOs: Development Workshop, CARE International, One World Action & Save the Children (UK) funded by DFID. LUPP works in 4 municipalitiesMUSSULO of 9 in Luanda, Sambizanga, Cacuaco, Cazenga, Kilamba Kiaxi and the project builds lessons from the experience of working with a large number of Luanda’s poorest communities, benefiting over 2,000,000 people.

Analysis and Urban Challenges, presented by Allan Cain: Forced migration during the war, flight to the safe haven of the capital city; Massive destruction of social and physical infrastructure; Rapid urban growth, largely due to the war continues even after conflict ended; Population growth today fuelled by high birth rate and movements from centre to periphery; 60% are under 18.

First Stakeholder’s Meeting presented by the World Bank and DW in Luanda, Angola. Objective of Research: This program aims at providing much needed information base on the way people gain access to urban land for autoconstrucao through formal and informal land markets; The project makes a contribution to the development of urban policy and land use management practice in urban and peri-urban areas of Angola; To assess the factors and agents that make informal urban land markets work in Luanda.