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SNF (Sustainable Neighborhoods in Focus)-Kampala
Project
Background and Description
As a rapidly expanding city, Kampala is beset
by growing social, economic and environmental challenges
that largely affect the urban poor population.
The urban poor live in the most risk-prone areas of the city - the valley bottom. They face flooding, poor
sanitation, waterborne diseases and accumulation
of solid wastes among other hazards. To ease the environmental
burdens several structural improvement initiatives
have been implemented. However, these still fall short of an integrated
urban management approach. The SNF project responds
to this knowledge and policy gap. Focusing on Kasubi-Kawaala,
Makerere II and Bwaise III neighborhood the project
seeks to turn some of the burdens into livelihood
benefits, through alternative agro-enterprises,
urban agriculture technologies, nutrient reuse,
sustainable and profitable solid waste management,
and contributing to pro-poor policy reforms that
promote a shared vision for sustainable urban development.
The project is implemented by a multi-disciplinary
research and policy analysis team, utilizing community-led
participatory approaches.
Objectives:
The project is expected to address three key objectives
including:
- Develop gender responsive innovative options
for management of solid and liquid wastes for enhanced nutrient reuse and
reduced contamination risk.
- Establish improved gender responsive and community-led
food and income security through sustainable
agro-enterprises.
- Strengthen policy and decision making frameworks
that are gender sensitive, to integrate poverty
reduction within urban natural resource management
and planning, through stakeholder participation
and communication.
Activities and Timeline
Using participatory and gender responsive approaches,
the project will conduct analytical research on
environmental burdens and from the knowledge generated,
pilot test development activities that will build
on community-initiated solutions for environmental
mitigation.
The project also targets to influence policy change
for sustainable urban development. The project
duration is 42 months and will consist of the following
phases but overlapping activities:
- Diagnostic studies which include sensitazation,
team building, baseline studies and participatory
analysis of opportunities and constraints; 6-9
months.
- Experimentation involving working with community
groups to pilot technologies in the fields of
waste management, flood control, and agro-enterprise
development for scaling out / up; 12-36 months.
- Policy review, formulation and change through
multi-stakeholder activities and policy dialogue
platforms for alternative strategies of urban
poverty reduction; 12-36 months.
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