DW Angola

Development Workshop Angola

Adaptation to climate change in African coastal cities

 

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

 

Angola tem uma Visão Sustentável de Longo Prazo – Allan Cain

Um verdadeiro amigo de Angola. A afirmação reflecte o percurso de Allan Cain, um arquitecto urbanista canadiano, que, quando tinha 29 anos, em 1980, largou projectos profissionais no seu país para se dedicar a tempo inteiro a Angola, onde se estabeleceu, até hoje, com a organização não governamental Development Workshop, com larga experiência na área de assentamentos humanos

A sua ligação a Angola começou quatro anos antes, em Junho de 1976, quando manteve contactos com a delegação angolana que participou, em Vancouver, no Canadá, na primeira conferência da ONU sobre Habitação e Desenvolvimento Urbano Sustentável, um evento realizado a cada período de vinte anos. O responsável pela sua vinda ao país foi o já falecido José Luís Guerra Marques, que integrou, na qualidade de director-geral do Laboratório de Engenharia de Angola (LEA,) a delegação angolana a Vancouver, chefiada pelo primeiro ministro da Construção da Angola independente,Manuel Resende de Oliveira, que ficou no cargo até 1978.

Rent Strike narrowly averted in Kilamba City – DW Angola – Published version

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.

Mercado De Capitais – Economia & Mercado Maio-Junho De 2004

O economista António Cruz Lima, coordenador do grupo de trabalho que vai implantar o mercado de capitais em Angola, anunciou recentemente que este será uma realidade em 2006. “Angola só ganha com o mercado de capitais”, reiterou o especialista do Ministériodas Finanças. O imperativo maior pós-conflito em Angola é, sem dúvida, o combate à fome e pobreza”, afirma António Cruz Lima, para quem a forma mais pragmática de o fazer não deverá ser exclusivamente através do Programa Alimentar Mundial (PAM), mas pela criação de novos empregos, reenquadramento das pessoas na vida social, não através da função pública, mas nas áreas mais carentes, como a saúde e educação. Os requisitos fundamentais para novos empregos têm que ser obtidosatravés de novos investimentos enquadrados numa política monetária favorável que envolvam investidores nacionais e estrangeiros”, sublinhou o economista quando falava sobre a “Importância do Mercado de Capital

UNICEF Briefing Note no 3 Economic framework in Angola during 1994

Economic development in 1993 was a disaster due to the renewed war and the economic strategy irnplernented’. Macro economic indicators have never been as bad as they were in 1993. The inflation rate for Luanda reached 1,838%, economic growth dropped 23%, monetary quantity increased 780%, the budget deficit reached 33% of total expenditures, and the foreign exchange gap2 grew. Behind this drastic drop in economic growth is the accelerated and almost total breakdown of economic functions and a paralysis of internal production.

The sectors worst affected were agriculture, where overaU production was reduced by half, and the diarnond industry, where output dropped by 75%, compared to 1992.