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The intersection of natural assets, municipal planning and resilience building

Reflections from UNA

Africa Secretariat

CITIES

By 2050, just over 30 years from now, we will have to build once more the same urban capacity as we

have built over the last 4000 years

URBANISATION = MANY CHALLENGES

City councils will need to meet basic service needs as well as support development which is built on equity, sustainable resource

consumption & rich biodiversity

African Cities…

Urban Natural Assets for Africa

(UNA) Programme

Participating Cities

Nacala & Quelimane, Mozambique

Objectives

•Increased understanding of the socio-economic importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services

•Mainstreaming of biodiversity and ecosystem services into local land use and development policy and planning systems

• Enhanced coordination and engagement within the project cities

•Alignment of project related activities and outputs with international policy processes

• Locally appropriate, scalable project implementation

Put simply….

Protecting natural assets in African cities through various means…….ONE and the MOST important is through embedding

them in PLANNING SYSTEMS AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES

Waste management at the Lilongwe river

Recommendations and opportunities to harness public-

private engagement for the implementation of nature based

solutions

Planning for and planning with biodiversity

Working with communities

The value of urban natural assets

when planning for resilient

African cities:

Considerations and decision-making processes

COMING SOON…

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