Just City

Despite many urban development challenges, evidence suggests that cities in Zambia are “engines” of economic growth, and job creation. Cities, if well managed, can catalyse industrialization by taking advantage of agglomeration economies and their relatively good infrastructure and services, high population density and diversity.The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the United Nations Programme for Human Settlements and Sustainable Urban Development, UNHabitat, signed an agreement to collaborate occasionally to host joint events, dialogue programmes and workshops on variety of topics with objective of contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, SDG No. 11, through an initiative titled Just City in Zambia.

The two (2) parties have agreed to increase dialogue and engagement in the policy making process with the objective to accelerate the realisation of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Further, the project aims to strengthen coordination among local authorities and other stakeholders such as trade unions, civil society organisations and those living in informal settlements in public goods delivery. The Just City project in Zambia, is a project that aims to enhance dialogue and policy engagement with policy makers and other key stakeholders in an effort to accelerate the realization of making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.