Lagos Resilience Strategy
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LAGOS RESILIENCE STRATEGY LAGOS LAGOS RESILIENCE STRATEGY LAGOS YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Goal 2: Improve Access to Clean Goal 2: Position Lagos as an CHAPTER FIVE: IMPLEMENTING RESILIENCE Water and Sanitation ....................59 Attractive and Open City Valuing Letter from the Governor of Cultural and Environmental Mainstreaming Resilience ............ 116 Lagos State ......................................... 6 Provide Public Toilets and Assets ................................................88 Collaborative Engagement ...........117 Letter from the Lagos State Head of Bathrooms to Each Local Monitoring and Evaluation ...........117 Service ..................................................7 Governments and LCDAs’ .............60 Strengthen the Creative Sector Letter from the Lagos State Construct Community Wastewater in Lagos by Establishing a Film Resilience Office ............................... 8 Treatment Plants ...............................61 Village.................................................90 CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSION Letter from 100RC ............................ 9 Develop an Integrated Waste Promote Sustainable Waterfront Executive Summary ........................10 Management System .....................63 Tourism to Improve Livelihood in Final Words from the Deputy Chief Expand and Protect Water Coastal Communities ......................91 Resilience Officer .......................... 119 Sources to Improve Lagos’ Regenerate Farm Centers and Acknowledgements ..................... 120 CHAPTER TWO: LAGOS HISTORY AND CONTEXT Water Supply ....................................65 Explore Urban Agriculture Opportunities to Strengthen Food References ...................................... 123 Introduction ........................................14 Summary Table of Pillars, Goals, Goal 3: Enhance the Provision Security ..............................................94 Lagos City Context ..........................16 and Initiatives ................................. 124 of Affordable and Reliable Geographical and Spatial Administrative Facts of Nigeria.. 126 Energy ................................................66 Goal 3: Prepare Youth for a Context ................................................18 Acronyms ..........................................127 Changing Economy .......................95 Political Structure.............................20 Conduct an Energy Audit to Plans and Policies Governing Determine Infrastructure and Broaden the scope of ICT in the International Case Study Boxes Urban Development .......................21 Supply Gaps ..................................... 67 School Curriculum ...........................96 1. River Thames, Uk .........................56 Lagos: A Journey through Time ..24 Delivery of Clean and Safe Scale Up the Code Lagos 2. e-Platform for Transit, Digital Lagos: Genesis .................................24 Energy for Cooking .........................68 Programme ....................................... 97 Transit Information Sharing, Lagos: Metamorphosis .................25 Develop a Campaign to Promote Barcelona ..........................................58 Lagos: Evolution ..............................25 3. Collaborative Wastewater Efficient Energy Use .......................69 Pillar 3: Inclusive City A Lagos History of Shocks ............26 Management, Kenya Water Services Trust Fund ........................62 Goal 4: Enhance the City’s Goal 1: Create an Inclusive 4. Waste-To-Energy (Biogas) Resilience through Land-Use Environment for All City CHAPTER THREE: THE RESILIENT LAGOS Johannesburg, South Africa .........64 JOURNEY Planning ............................................. 71 Residents ..........................................99 5. Campaign on Efficient Use Of Activating City Resilience ..............30 Strengthen the Implementation Scale up Implementation of the Energy, Cairo ....................................70 100RC City Resilience of Operative Physical Development Lagos State Special People’s 6.Informality: Baan Makong, Framework .........................................31 Plans ................................................... 72 Law .................................................... 100 Thailand ............................................. 77 100RC Network Connections .......32 Increase Access to Affordable 7. Atal Incubation Centres, India ..84 8. Waterfront Tourism to Resilience Lens ...............................34 Housing .............................................. 74 Goal 2: Strengthen Information Improve Livelihood in Coastal Shocks and Stresses ......................36 Strengthen the Lagos Urban Management and Disaster Communities in Ada, Ghana .........93 The Lagos Resilience Timeline ....38 Renewal Programme ...................... 76 Preparedness ................................. 101 9. Community Participatory Flood Mapping, Ramani Huria, Pillar 2: Enterprise City Community Participatory Flood CHAPTER FOUR : ENVISIONING A RESILIENT Management .................................. 102 Tanzania ........................................... 103 LAGOS 10. Improved Digital Surveillance Goal 1: Support Individual and Strengthen the State’s Emergency for Punjab – Safe Cities Collective Entrepreneurship as a Response System .......................... 104 Vision ..................................................42 Authority, Pakistan......................... 108 Strategy Principles and Driving Force for Innovation and Expand Use of the Lagos State Development ................................... 79 Citizens Gate Platform For Effective Hierarchy ...........................................46 Lagos Resilience In Action: Case How to Read the Initiatives ...........48 e-Governance................................. 106 Strengthen Lagos State Strengthen the State’s Capacity Study Boxes 1. Lagos BRT Lite..............................54 Pillar 1: Efficient City Employment Trust Fund to for Collection, Analysis, and Support Job Creation .....................80 Dissemination 2. Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme .......................... 75 Goal 1: Develop a Robust, Establish at Least One Innovation of Data ...............................................107 and Incubation Hub in Each of 3.Lagos State Employment Multimodal, and Integrated Trust Fund (LSETF) ...........................81 The 57 LGA/LCDA ...........................82 Goal 3: Improve the Health Transportation System .................51 4. Lagos Innovates Programme ...83 Upgrade Market Infrastructure ....85 System to Support Lagos 5. Lagos Creative Economy ..........89 Establish an Information and Residents in Times of Shock .... 109 Implement the Lagos State Strategic 6. Lekki Conservation Centre Transport Master Plan (LSTMP) ....52 Communication Technology (ICT) Village that will Incorporate the Implement the Lagos State Health (LCC) ...................................................92 Expand the Water Transportation 7. Lagos State Emergency Network with Increased Private Current Computer Village .............86 Scheme ............................................. 110 Expand the Master Craftsman Upgrade Public Healthcare Management Agency Sector Participation .........................55 (LASEMA) ......................................... 105 Develop an e-platform that Project ................................................ 87 Facilities ..............................................111 Coordinates and Integrates Public Develop an e-Health System Transport Services .......................... 57 that Incorporates Disease Surveillance ..................................... 112 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 4 Pupils at Adekunle Primary School Makoko 5 LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE LETTER FROM THE LAGOS STATE HEAD OF SERVICE I am delighted to share with you the Lagos Resilience Strategy, the first of its kind in our Country, The Lagos Resilience Strategy represents an excellent opportunity for Lagos State to put Nigeria. As Nigeria transits to an urban majority, the Lagos Resilience Strategy demonstrates building blocks in place for our future city. The strategy eloquently outlines a framework to build our visionary role as the pioneer city that addresses the challenges of population growth, rapid an efficient, enterprising and inclusive Lagos for residents today and the predicted population urbanization and environmental changes in an integrated manner. of the future. The strategy is anchored on an inclusive approach in which the city’s stakeholders across The Lagos State Resilience Office will essentially work with Ministries, Departments and sectors including Academia, Business, Government, Non-governmental, Local communities, Agencies in the State Public Service including Local Authorities, Communities, Non- Traditional institutions and Citizens were mobilized to identify the city’s main challenges and co- Governmental Organizations, Academia and Private Sector Institutions towards the delivery of create dynamic initiatives to address them. It offers a clear pathway towards achieving our vision its mandate. It is therefore critical that everyone is on the same page and the implementation of of becoming Africa’s model megacity. It outlines tangible this strategy provides a platform for that harmonization. actions for anticipating, mitigating and responding to the most critical challenges that we are confronted with The envisaged success in implementing the Lagos Re- as a city. It positions us towards becoming a city that silience Strategy rests on