The SCP Documentation Series: Nigeria - Building platforms for environmentally sustainable urbanization

Following the oil boom of the 1970s, Nigeria experienced a high growth rate in urban areas – resulting in progressively complicated and exacerbated problems of human settlements growth and development, particularly the provision of adequate housing and supporting services; environmental deterioration; as well as the growth of urban poverty. Seeking a new approach to address these problems, four cities participated in the Sustainable Cities Programme, namely, Ibadan, Kano, Enugu and Karu.

This publication is a review of the Sustainable Cities Programme’s experience and impact on Nigeria in the period 1993 to 2005.

Further information:
Report will be available on-line soon at http://www.unhabitat.org/scp

The State of African Cities Report

By 2030 the majority of Africans will be urban residents, and the majority of them will live in slums and informal settlements unless radical corrective measures are taken. To leverage Africa’s options in an environment that is simultaneously global and local, it is important for its leaders at all levels to develop forward-looking visions based on analyses of where Africa is now and where it wants to be in the future.

This publication aims to provide focus and encouragement to African governments at the central and local level as well as to other key actors in the broad area of sustainable human settlements development. More information: The report is available at
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/getpage.asp?page=download&alt=1&publicationID=2574