This publication is the result of the project ‘Support to Regional Benadir Administration’s Central Department of Urban Planning’ implemented in technical cooperation between the UN-Habitat Somalia Programme and the Mogadishu Department of Urban Planning (DUP). The data contained in the urban analysis was collected during GPS surveys by UN-Habitat Somalia during 2010-2012 and by the Mogadishu Department of Urban Planning (DUP) during 2013.

The last several decades have seen a change in the legal landscape relating to land in Puntland and Somaliland. Traditionally, both regions have consisted primarily of large swaths of rural and agricultural land, owned in common by clans and subclans in accordance with customary law. While the customary system is also capable of recognizing individual rights and grievances of members of the community in question, it remains primarily accessible to male members of the majority clan.

Dayactrika iyo horumarinta Kaabayasha dhaqaalaha dagaalada kadib

This planning manual, which is targeted at planners and technicians in Somaliland (north-west Somalia) explains basic urban planning and details six crucial steps in the urban planning cycle.

UN-HABITAT has played a central and very active role in the recent debate on the future of urban planning.

The publication documents the steps undertaken by the Bossaso Municipality in collaboration with UN-HABITAT towards a sustainable urban management.

The publication draws on the results of participative workshops such as the Burao City Profile and the Burao City Consultation and offers local and international agencies, donors and in particular local communities and civil society stakeholders the opportunity to identify critical problems and strategic objectives in the area of sustainable and post-conflict city planning.

For more than 25 years, UN-HABITAT has been working with partners in the Somali region to promote sustainable, participatory urban development.

This booklet outlines the basic steps taken towards effective and integrated urban development in the city of Berbera in the northern Somali region (Somaliland).