Full Name (abbr.): First Steps towards Strategic Urban Planning
URL: Report published on Scribd by UN-HABITAT, http://www.scribd.com/doc/31710555

Owners: Hargeisa , with the support of UN-HABITAT

Target Groups: The city of Hargeisa, including all local stakeholders

Baseline: During the Hargeisa City Consultation that was held 27 February - 2 March 2005, a broad spectrum of local development actors agreed a common vision for the future of the city:

Peaceful, clean, and modern capital city, centre of trade and quality services

Priority needs for city development were identified in these five areas: basic services, economic development, city growth, environment and city strategic planning.

Basic Services

These problems must be overcome urgently:

  • Poor sanitation and hygiene
  • Water scarcity
  • Inequitable distribution of health services

Economic Development

  • Insufficient and unorganized markets
  • Unemployment
  • Poor condition of slaughterhouse and meat market

City Growth

Internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and returneeds live in unserviced and unhygienic settlements.

Environment

  • Environmental degradation
  • Lack of greenery and attractive open spaces for recreation and entertainment

City Strategic Planning

  • Lack of city planning

Blueprint: These are the objectives for the various urgent problems.

Basic Services

  • Clean city with good hygienic conditions
  • Sufficient clean water for everybody
  • Full health care for the community

Economic Development

  • Increasing trade opportunities
  • Creating job opportunities
  • Improving the condition of the slaughterhouse and meat market

City Growth

  • Integrating IDPs, refugees, and returnees into the city, and giving them access to adequate housing, services and job opportunities.

Environment

  • Clean and healthy environment
  • Open and welcoming city. Green urban environment.

City Strategic Planning

  • Well-planned city, with appropriate services.

Actions and Resources:
In the Hargeisa City Consultation also appropriate strategies and actions to overcome the most urgent problems were agreed (source: report, page 12). They are here listed per identified problem.

Poor sanitation and hygiene

Strategy

  • Privatization of sanitation facilities
  • Joint interventions by community and municipality

Key actions

  • Planning and management of sanitation systems.
  • Extension and maintenance of Hargeisa drainage systems.

Water scarcity

Strategy

  • Water supply progamme involving all actors

Key actions

  • Finding new water sources and broadening water distribution.
  • Registration and regularization of existing water sources and water vendors.
  • Improvement of Hargeisa water management system.

Inequitable distribution of health services

Strategy

  • Effective community health care programme
  • Cooperation with the local council and the Ministry of Health

Key actions

  • Survey of existing health services and community health needs.
  • Moving mental and Tuberculosis Hospital to appropriate sites.
  • Registration and evaluation of available health services, and provision of licences or certificates to private health clinics.
  • Better control of imported food, drinks and drugs.

Increasing trade opportunities

Strategy

  • Extending and improving existing markets; building new trade facilities.

Key actions

  • Identification and allocation of land.
  • Fund raising.
  • Building five markets in the five districts of the capital.

Creating job opportunities

Strategy

  • Establishing social and economic development programmes.

Key actions

  • Opening new vocational training centres.
  • Encouraging and improving the quality of existing vocational centres.
  • Raising awareness in the community on the importance of learning new skills.
  • Creating programmes for economic development with local and international stakeholders.

Improving the condition of the slaughterhouse and meat market

Strategy

  • Cooperation among the local council, vendors, and the other stakeholders.

Key actions

  • Completing the slaughterhouse under construction.
  • Allocating areas to build additional meat markets.
  • Organizing a communication network among all markets.
  • Creating an effective communication system between the slaughterhouse and the markets.

Integrating IDPs, refugees, and returnees

(..into the city, and giving them access to adequate housing, services and job opportunities.)
Strategy

  • Cooperative action

Key actions

  • Assessment and registration of the numbers of IDPs, returnees and refugees.
  • Identification of proper resettlement areas for IDPs, returnees and refugees within the city.
  • Establishing necessary basic public services for all.
  • Removing illegal settlements from unsuitable sites.

Clean and healthy environment

Strategy

  • Environmental protection programme involving the City council, the Ministry of Environment and the community.

Key actions

  • Assess garbage volume and types.
  • Establish an effective systems of garbage disposal.
  • Organize dump sites, involve the community in collecting and controlling solid waste.
  • Regulate the use of plastic bags.
  • Ban the incineration of garbage in water gullies and the riverbed.
  • Stop deforestation catalysts such as charcoal production.
  • Ban the cutting and burning of living trees.
  • Maintain the rivulets made by rainwater.

Open and welcoming city. Green urban environment.

Strategy

  • Involvement of communities, local authorities, local and international non-governmental rorganisations, UN agencies, and private investors

Key actions

  • City flowering, tree planting and the creation of green open spaces.
  • Rehabilitation of the Hargeisa Museum.
  • Establishment of recreational and tourist facilities.

Well-planned city, with appropriate services.

Strategy

  • Cooperation among all stakeholders.

Key actions

  • Setting up sustainable land use management, identifying suitable location for business and commerce, industry, residential housing, social services, schools, hospitals, playgrounds, markets, police stations, and recreation centres.
  • Reorganising the infrastructure systems: roads, bridges, river crossings, and water and electricity supplies.

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