Project profile — Partners for Long-Term Urban Sustainability (PLUS) Program in Africa 2009-2012

• South Africa (14.00%)
• Senegal (42.00%)
• Tanzania (44.00%)

• Water sector policy and administrative management:
Water sector policy and administrative management (14010) (10.00%)
Waste management/disposal (14050) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Decentralisation and support to subnational government (15112) (6.00%)
• Energy Generation, Renewable Resources: Energy generation, renewable sources - multiple technologies (23210) (9.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (15.00%)
• Other Multisector: Urban development and management (43030) (50.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal objective)
• Climate change mitigation (significant objective)
• Urban issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disability (significant objective)

The Partners for Long-Term Urban Sustainability (PLUS) Program aims to catalyse action on urban sustainability through demonstration projects in selected cities around the world. This program works to reduce poverty in informal communities in Dakar, Dar es Salaam, and Durban by increasing the capacity of local governments to design and implement projects that reflect the priorities and interests of residents. It supports initiatives that address the environmental and social impacts of rapid urbanization. The demonstration projects deal with issues such as urban design, land-use planning, transportation, solid waste, urban greening, energy efficiency, disaster mitigation, and poverty reduction. The program is expected to reduce poverty levels for over 600 people and families involved in the demonstration projects. The program helps to upgrade informal settlements in Dakar, Dar es Salaam, and Durban through community mobilization and youth initiatives. It fosters the transfer of innovative solutions for urban sustainability between cities. As a result, demonstration projects are expanded to clusters of three to six cities working on similar issues. Successful innovations are further shared with peer learning networks of 30 to 45 cities that represent a wide range of different communities.

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Results achieved as of March 2012 include: design and implementation of 22 demonstration projects in food security, urban development, waste management and sustainable economic development; increased capacity of 3,350 women, 4,695 youth and marginalized groups including the unemployed, disabled and urban poor living in informal settlements, in developing and implementing programs that reflect their priorities; and increased sharing of learning on urban sustainability among three African cities of Durban, Dakar and Dar-es-Salaam. These have contributed to increased engagement and improved capacity of 42 partner institutions and 12 local government units in participatory processes that include the priorities and interests of women, youth and marginalized groups in local urban governance.

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