Cities & Corridors - Policy Brief

The European Union’s Global Gateway (GG), launched in 2021, is a strategy to support global investment in sustainable infrastructure and services. A key component is the €150 billion Africa-Europe Investment Package, which focuses on supporting the development of 12 corridors in Africa through sustainable infrastructure and aligned regulatory frameworks. Urban areas along these corridors are crucial for maximising development potential but face challenges like housing, services, and climate resilience. 

The Cities and Corridors project, under the EU’s Urban Development Technical Facility, studies how cities interact with these corridors to optimise infrastructure investment returns. Uganda, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo were chosen as a case study, focusing on primary and secondary cities along some of the Global Gateway supported corridors, namely Corridor 6 (Douala / Kribi-Kampala), Corridor 8 (Mombasa-Kisangani) and Corridor 11 (Cairo-Khartoum-Juba-Kampala), Corridor 12 (Lobito-Kolwezi-Lubumbashi / Solwezi Ndola-Lusaka).