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World Habitat Day Bold action. Proven impact. Inclusive change. This World Habitat Day, and throughout Urban October, we’re highlighting how ICLEI Africa is making an impact across the continent, celebrating 30 years of supporting African cities and regions to create a more resilient, sustainable urban Africa.  The immense, interconnected urban sustainability challenges our world, and … Continued

UNA Resilience opens “Preserve, Conserve & Tinker” Exhibition launched in Cape Coast and online

As urbanisation accelerates across Africa, the challenges posed by climate change become increasingly urgent, highlighting the valuable role that urban natural assets and nature-based solutions (NbS) can play in fostering sustainable urban environments. As we celebrate International Youth Day, it is important to recognise that youth in African cities have inherited compounding crises that they … Continued

In response, ICLEI Africa’s Sustainable Finance Centre (SFC), with like-minded partners across the world, is charting a new era of increased funding for local action, ensuring we move from policy to practice. By playing crucial and often under-resourced intermediary roles, bridging divides between crucial stakeholders, the SFC is joining the dots and improving engagement between … Continued

In a time when our cities are bursting at the seams, we need deep, systemic change to build climate resilient cities through preserving our urban nature – laws and policies that embed nature in city planning. Changing policy is a slow, uphill journey, which makes our recent influence in Malawi all the more significant. Lilongwe … Continued

Is language creating a barrier to showcasing Africa’s best efforts?

A resilient society depends on climate action and gender equality. But where does a society begin to untangle the inequalities embedded in its own foundations?

COP30 in Belém (Brazil) has reinforced a clear message: all attention and focus must now be on implementation, and that begins at the local level. Marking a decade since the landmark Paris Agreement, COP30 unfolded against a sobering backdrop: global climate action remains far off track, with the world heading toward a 1.5 °C overshoot, … Continued

The National Government of Tanzania is moving towards taking formal steps to protect and enhance nature in cities as they expand to accommodate their mushrooming populations. ICLEI Africa is assisting to facilitate the process to ensure nature is prioritised and effectively integrated in the country’s planning processes. Rising floods in Dar es Salaam Dar es … Continued

Uganda’s cities are growing rapidly, at about 5% a year. Today, 35% of the country’s population lives in urban areas, and 70% of these residents live in informal settlements. In the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA), this means more than 4 million people live in hard-to-reach communities where energy access remains out of reach (UBOS, … Continued