How Africa urban planning can fix problems?

For African cities to prosper, they first need to make plans that address congestion and urban sprawl. When an urban population spreads out, this compounds the challenge of weak infrastructure. It makes it harder to provide good services such as water and sanitation. Education and health care are harder to deliver over a larger area, especially if roads and infrastructure are deficient. It’s harder for workers to commute to quality jobs or afford the transport costs. Land areas of cities could increase four- to eight-fold in Africa by 2050. With urban poverty rates higher than on any other continent, many of Africa’s cities could see their slum populations triple by 2050.

The European Investment Bank’s projects address the rising population, as well as global economic troubles and climate change. The Bank is working directly in more than 20 African countries to improve transport, expand renewable energy, increase access to clean water and sanitation, create jobs and offer better education, especially to youth and women. These projects are contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which aim to eliminate poverty and hunger, ensure good health and education as well as clean water, good jobs and, on the top of that, sustainable cities.

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