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The New Urban Agenda,
Global Institutions and
Urban Policies in Africa
Prof Ivan Turok
November 28th 2014
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The conventional wisdom
“Few African countries have given attention to sustainable urban development … urban development has not been given a high priority in national development plans and poverty reduction strategies” (African Development Bank, 2011).
“Few countries have developed strategies to cope with the challenges posed by rapid urbanisation … most African decision makers have not yet grasped the importance of the proper functioning of cities for the proper functioning of national economies” (Cities Alliance, 2013).
Role of international agencies?
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Threats and risks of neglect
• Urbanisation of poverty – slum urbanism
• Congestion, overloaded infrastructure
• Health & environmental disasters – Ebola!
• Social instability and disorder
• Global capital’s urban fantasies
• Other enclaves – gated compounds
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Opportunities for NUP
• Positive arguments for accelerating economic development
• Concentration, proximity, density
• Shaping fantasy cities by harnessing private capital
• More cost-efficient public services
• Pathways out of poverty
• Energy and resource efficiency & ecosystem protection
• Prevention & preparation better than retrofitting
• Functional urban form is the foundation
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The relationship between urbanisation
and development
1. Urbanisation as an effect of industrialisation
• Population following jobs & incomes
2. Urbanisation enables development
• Once-off efficiency gain from scale economies:
labour pool, supply chains, public goods
3. Urbanisation fuels development
• Cumulative, self-reinforcing, dynamic effects –
learning, innovation (‘buzz’)
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Its simple! 15% efficiency gain with 2x size (USA)
(Bettencourt and West, 2010)
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Coordination imperative
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Urban economy
* Scale and composition of productive activity
• Tradable goods and services • Buildings and equipment • Enterprise, creativity and innovation
Business investment
Neighbourhoods
* Size and character of housing * Density and form of housing * Sense of place and physical safety
Household investment
Government
* Fixed infrastructure * Social infrastructure
* Regulatory framework
* Stable environment
Public investment
Development needs investment in a functional urban form
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Asia 1985-2011
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South America 1985-2011
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Africa 1985-2011
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Life expectancy, 1985-2011
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Nigeria
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Kenya
Ethiopia
Malawi Uganda
Zimbabwe
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In fact, lots of experience of urban
initiatives in Africa
50 years of projects
20-30 years of programmes (sectoral)
5-10 years of policies (cross-cutting)
Lack of cumulative learning, shared experience etc.
Integrated strategies could coordinate investment by
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A minimum agenda for a NUP?
1. Orchestration: coordination, mobilising wider support
2. Institutionalisation: legal procedures regarding land
3. Financing: instruments for investment in housing and
infrastructure; collecting taxes, capturing value
4. Capacity building: devolution to city institutions for
planning & project development, inc. civil society & private
5. Special measures: catalytic projects,
experimentation, demonstration schemes.
Process, not one-off. L-t perspective. Country-specific.
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Dilemmas and choices
1. Political versus technical
2. Legal versus practical action
3. Public versus private investment
4. National vs city institutions
5. Government vs partnership
6. Small projects vs large scale
7. Neighbourhood vs city-wide
8. Worst first vs demand driven
9. Biggest cities vs system of cities
10. Physical (urban form) vs human capital
11. Prevention vs retrofitting/upgrading 15
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International organisations
World Bank OECD Old UN-Habit New UN-Habit
Political or
technical
Technical Technical Technical Technical
Legal/practical Practical Practical Practical Mixed
Public v private Mixed Mixed Public Mixed
National v city National ? National ?
Projects Large ? Small ?
Scale City-wide City-wide Neighbourhood ?
Focus Demand-driven ? Worst-first ?
Focus Biggest cities ? System of cities
Scope Physical form ? Household
services
Comprehensive
Focus Retrofitting Prevention
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Nigeria
• Government recognises arguments for NUP
• Launched in 1992, revised in 2012
• Very ambitious & wide-ranging objectives
• Poor implementation
• Federal system complicates delivery
• Shortages of technical capacity
• Positive transport initiatives: low cost BRT, light rail
• Worrying urban fantasies – Eko-Atlantic
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Nigeria – ‘paper policy’
“Successive governments in Nigeria have shown little
concern for solving urban problems. Rather, they have
directed more efforts towards promoting agriculture and
rural development … Despite the fact that Nigeria adopted
a robust National Urban Development Policy and enacted a
comprehensive Urban and Regional Planning Act, both in
1992, there has been generally little achievement to show
in terms of their implementation. Today, the general apathy
towards urban planning still persists in the country”
(Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2012)
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Kenya – tentative policy
• Traditional neglect of urban areas
• Weak local government
• Work on a NUDP began 2008, draft issued in 2013
• Very wide scope
• Coincidental restructuring of local government may
play down the urban agenda
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Uganda - embryonic
• Government recognises the case for a NUP
• The process started in 2010
• Draft policy discussed in stakeholder forums
• Aim to build institutional support and buy-in
• Complicated situation in Kampala
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Malawi - embryonic
• Traditional neglect of urban areas
• Weak local planning and service delivery
• Work on a national Urban Policy Framework is
underway
• Positive local initiatives on slum upgrading, e.g. in
Blantyre
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Rwanda - emerging
• Rapid urbanisation, positive government attitude
• Commitment to extend service delivery, support
house-building and devolve responsibilities to
local government
• Currently formulating a NUP
• Lack of technical and financial capacity
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Ghana - provisional
• Government recognises positive arguments for NUP
• Launched in 2013 after 4 year preparation
• Very ambitious objectives, including informality
• Lack of an institution to implement it
• National and local forums to put urban issues on
other agendas, including shack dwellers
• Major World Bank water and sanitation programme
• Complex land ownership/development rights issues 23
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Morocco – progressive human settlements
• More sustained support for NUP (since 2001)
• More centralised government
• Major slum improvement programmes
• Affordable housing, serviced land, streamlined
planning, contracts with city authorities
• Major impact on slum populations
• But insufficient in situ upgrading and development
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South Africa
• Ambivalent attitude towards urbanisation since
1994
• Reflects damaging history of urban controls and
rural destitution
• Result is divided and dysfunctional cities
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Urban density (pop/sq km) {Demographia}
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China S&C
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Proportion of household budget spent on
transport (World Bank, 2007)
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Fragmented, dispersed Gauteng
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Distance of RDP housing from economic centres
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2008 data
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RDP housing on the periphery: poverty traps?
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South Africa
• Post-1994
• Separate sectoral programmes in silos – housing,
transport, water, sanitation, electricity …
• Post 2009 decentralisation of built environment
• National Development Plan 2012
• Increasing talk about the importance of cities (MTBPS)
• ‘Integrated urban development framework’ approved by
cabinet in 2014 – out for consultation
• Long-term growth/development strategy for every city 32
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Ethiopia – concerted, far-sighted
• Sustained support for NUP (since around 2000)
• Federal Urban Development Policy (2005)
• Revised planning laws
• Strengthened technical capacity of govt officials
• Improved financial arrangements
• SME development, job creation, supply chains
• Federal system is a complication; weak munis
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Ethiopia’s planned urban extensions
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• Very poor, 17% urbanised
• Preparing for 38m more urban
• Urban pop growth 3.6% p.a.
• Systematic approach
• Project population 25 years
• Map topography
• Exclude unsuitable areas
• Prioritise segments
• Grid plan; infrastructure plan
• Compensation; servicing; sale
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Building for density in Ethiopia
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Conclusions
• Very mixed, uneven picture. Positive trajectory
• At least 9 countries have elements of a NUP
• Ethiopia closest to an integrated NUP
• Also positive experiences in Morocco, South Africa,
Ghana and Rwanda
• Increasing role of international agencies
• But different agendas and focus areas
• Priority is a functional urban form: economic
density, connectivity, mixed land-uses
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