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AFRICAN CITYFOOD CENTRE

Putting food firmly on the urban sustainability agenda: We exist to elevate the role of cities and local governments in solving Africa’s food system challenges. This means healthier, more prosperous cities backed by sustainable rural value chains.

 

We aim to be the leading convener of urban food systems action in Africa and the go-to team of urban food systems professionals in the region. We support ICLEI’s global City Food program by bringing African experience into the international arena.

ICLEI Africa’s Sustainable Finance Centre (SFC), with like-minded partners across the world, is charting a new era of increased funding for subnational projects, ensuring we move from policy to practice. By playing the crucial and often under-resourced knowledge broker role, needed to bridge divides between crucial stakeholders, the SFC is ensuring that all actors involved in the project development value chain work in an integrated manner – increasing the success of local projects reaching implementation.

ICLEI Africa’s Clean Cooking Centre improves the lives of those living in informality through clean cooking. We enable clean cooking solutions to reach and serve underserved urban communities across Africa by strengthening local action, championing inclusive multi-level governance, and creating an enabling environment for  partnerships between governments, communities, the private sector and development actors.

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