TA to Promote Integrated Urban Planning in Addis Ababa to Foster Green Growth

Project Summary:

With a population of 3 million, and growing 4% per year, Addis Ababa faces rapid urbanization that strains its infrastructure and services, posing serious challenges to the city’s development and its decade-old Master Plan. The program is providing technical assistance to the city’s Urban Planning Institute (UPI) to help revise and implement the Master Plan of the city’s transport issues. The program supports an international conference that builds planners’ capacity by highlighting the experiences of similar cities, and which pays for local and international consultants to work on Master Plan revisions.

List of Activities:

• Facilitating the technical preparation of both the master plan revision and implementation modalities in Addis Ababa to ensure green growth outcome
• Engaging transport advisors for the transport chapter of the master plan update
• Providing strategic assistance in specific areas necessary to advance preparation of an investment project (development of traffic management and public transport units, ITS, strategic planning and TOD projects)
• Training and knowledge exchange, including a technical visit to Seoul for the Global Metropolitan Lab, amongst others

Outcomes:

Output 1:

• Revised development plan of the city that takes into account the requirements of green, efficient and sustainable urban development.

Output 2:

• Increased capacity and awareness of technical staff, city officials and the public at large about green, efficient, and sustainable urban growth

Outcomes:

Some of the expected outcomes of this project include greater awareness among policy-makers of the impact of the transport dimensions of green growth on economic development and national/metropolitan competitiveness; new or revised sustainable transport strategies and policies developed for cities/metropolitan regions, and countries at the national level, and submitted for adoption by the relevant authorities; knowledge-sharing and capacity improved for developing and implementing sustainable transport strategies, programs and demonstration projects; and increased funding available for sustainable transport strategies and investments in Africa.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

Bringing together the Addis Ababa and Seoul municipal administrations along with the UPI and the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, the program also facilitates KOTI training programs on public bus systems, transport strategies, and related issues for stakeholders, including the Addis Ababa Transport Branch, Roads Authority, Oromiya Roads Authority and the Federal Ministry of Transport. The program links to the World Bank transport sector support program and the urban local government development program.