This Regional Representation Strategy for Africa shows a paradigm shift towards sustainable urbanisation as an engine for growth by proactively tackling urban challenges while simultaneously leveraging the opportunities presented by the phenomenon itself.

Desde o fim do conflito armado, em 2002, a habitação e o desenvolvimento urbano têm sido elementos centrais na agenda de desenvolvimento da República de Angola.

Ainda nesse âmbito, em 2011, o Governo de Angola, por intermédio do Ministério das Relações Exteriores, assinou um Acordo de Cooperação com o Programa das Nações Unidas para os Assentamentos Humanos (UN-Habitat) para o estabelecimento de um escritório nacional do UNHabitat em Luanda. No dia 30 de outubro de 2015, véspera…

The HABITAT-MINOTH Country Program Document for Sustainable Urban Development of Angola (HCPD) aims to create a strategic framework for the implementation of the New Urban Agenda in Angola during the 2018-2022 cycle.
The HCPD reflects the seven programmatic areas of intervention that resulted from PNOTU and its recommendations in order to give coherence to the Agency’s work in the country. The National Urban Policy (PNOTU), and the National Housing Policy (PNH) are the two fundamental…

The farmers of Fátima were sceptical t first: what did the provincial government want to do with their land? Fátima is a bairro (neighbourhood) on the southeastern edge of Huambo, the second-largest city in Angola, close to the airport. The provincial government wanted to make the land available for the city’s expansion. The area was still mostly farmland, but it was divided up into lots of irregular plots: too small and higgledy-piggledy to plan in a rational way. Each plot by itself was not…

This report is the result of an analysis of two land readjustment projects that were implemented in Huambo, central Angola, between 2006 and 2008.
Land readjustment is the concept of assembling land with the general objective of facilitating the development or redevelopment of land. It has been used, for example,
to redraw boundaries of rural land to make farms more efficient, to pool developed properties in brownfield redevelopment schemes, to assemble land for new developments…