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Any pictures or transparencies supplied are at the owner’s risk. 3 AFRICAN CITIES #02 African cities and local governments: this magazine is important JEAN PIERRE Elong MBASSI Secretary GENERAL, UCLG-A The global agendas negotiated by the no choice but to innovate, exchange practices; and to voice concerns should international community in the course notes, and engage in order to build implementation processes be delayed of 2015 and 2016 have confirmed a better life for all on the continent. or derailed from expected trajectories. the obvious: cities and territories are the places where the fight against At this historical juncture, a number The African cities magazine is intended to poverty and inequality will be won or of agendas have been, or are being, put African local and regional authorities lost; where the fight against global adopted by the international community: on the map so that their positions count warming and for low carbon societies the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable in the definition of development and will be won or lost; and where the fight Development Goals (SDGs); the Paris cooperation policies and strategies in for sustainable and resilient cities and Agreement on Climate Change; Africa and worldwide. It provides a human settlements will be won or lost. and the forthcoming New Urban comprehensive base for those who wish Agenda that will be signed in Quito, to work and partner with African local This centrality of cities and territories in Ecuador at the Habitat III conference. and regional governments. It is intended shaping the future of humanity puts a to be the rallying space for those who huge responsibility on local and regional These are agendas that will shape care about leaving no one behind. authorities that are compelled to adopt international relations in the field of innovative approaches to governance, development and cooperation for the next African cities magazine also provides a service delivery, and technologies. It is three decades. For these agendas to have conduit for those interested in reinventing such innovation that will enable them a meaningful and tangible impact on a world of solidarity, and in providing to cope with the requirements of the people on the ground, local and regional a better life for all; a world of viable, emerging new world, in which, for the authorities roles should be prominent sustainable and resilient cities and first time in history and from now on, the and recognised, as they are the ones best territories where all can contribute share of urban dwellers will surpass that placed given their closeness to citizens, and participate, as well as be able to of the populations living in rural areas. to ensure the implementation of such monitor and evaluate public policies. agendas within populations at grassroots. This global trend is even more African cities magazine empowers challenging in Africa where cities It is timely therefore that the UCLG-A local Africa to mark its presence, will have to accommodate, in the leadership is ensuring that African local own and build its future. next 20/30 years, the equivalent of and regional authorities are provided today’s entire continental population with an appropriate communication This magazine is the responsibility of its at 1.2-billion people. This is almost platform, the African cities magazine, prime target audience, those being the the entire 2015 population of China, in order to demonstrate the activities local and regional authorities of Africa and three times the population of the USA, they are undertaking pertaining to their partners. It is they that will keep this and four times the population of the the implementation of these global magazine alive and motivate its constant European Union. African local and agendas; to share lessons learnt from improvement. Their presence, inputs, regional authorities therefore have their experiences be those poor or best and contributions are highly welcome. • 5 Celebrating and honouring our african cities MAPUTO 6 MOZAMBIQUE AFRICAN CITIES #01 62 AFRICAN CITIES #02 BY: MARIAM LADY YUNUSA Recently RETIRED FROM UN Habitat AS Director OF PARNERSHIPS AND Manager OF THE AFRICAN URBAN Agenda Africa is ready for Quito – not in 54 disparate entities, but as one block, with a common position, with one voice. It is indeed cause for celebration and expectant jubilation. Africa's road to quito The mail came in from one of the two African Members of the Habitat III Bureau who was coordinating Africa’s position at the negotiations on the New with one voice. It is indeed cause for focus but they set the stage for global Urban Agenda. “We have a document celebration and expectant jubilation. awareness and regional policy debates. on which we are all agreed.” The relief The urbanisation phenomenon was not that followed was palpable among all the Why is this such a milestone? Although associated with Africa and some parts of African diplomats, professionals, experts, a new mandate for the United Nations Asia, which were considered rural. government focal points, and partner Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) networks who have toiled for over two was derived to support and monitor the During the Habitat I and Habitat II years to build up Africa’s position on implementation of the Habitat Agenda Conferences, Africa’s participation was Habitat III. Their joy was infectious even adopted at the Istanbul Conference, hardly relevant. The continent was still across the airwaves. Africa is ready for and approved by all regions of the basically rural and participated as a Quito – not in 54 disparate entities, but world, both the Vancouver and Istanbul continent that neither accepted that it as one block, with a common position, conferences had no regional or sectoral needed to worry about human settlements 8 The last two decades have seen a marked increase in Africa’s economic growth and productivity and with it a rise in the multiple challenges of rapid urbanisation and the growth of cities and human settlements. The consequent growing appreciation that it is impossible to deal with Africa’s growth and poverty challenges without managing urbanisation has provoked the establishment of the African Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD). Over a period of 10 years (2005-2015) they met in different cities of Africa bi-annually, discussing a wide range of themes on urbanisation. At its 4th meeting in Nairobi in 2012, the Ministers took a decision to “maximise the urban advantage”. This decision stood on four pillars: develop a transformative national urban policy; create a more compact city at human scale; undertake institutional and legal reforms and learning to do things together. At its session in Ndjamena, the AMCHUD took a decision to advance partnership (learning to do things together) as the mechanism for preparing Africa for the upcoming Habitat III. In appreciation of the daunting challenge of building a consensus on urbanisation to reach a broad understanding of the common issues that confront the African continent, and as a response to the need for an early preparation and to have a unified voice for Africa at Habitat III, a group of African Member States took up the challenge and provided financial and technical support to facilitate country level preparations as well as support consultations required for forging a common position that has been achieved as a product of the national Africa's road to quito reports.