Unlocking Urban Mobility in Four East African Cities

Project Summary:

Urban mobility in East Africa faces significant challenges due to rapid urbanization, poor public transport infrastructure, traffic congestion, androad safety issues. Many cities in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda lack integrated transport strategies and sufficient institutional capacity for transport planning and development. 

The KGGTF grant aims to provide technical assistance and knowledge-sharing opportunities to address these barriers and accelerate the adoption of sustainable urban mobility solutions.

List of Activities:

Twinning Program Objective: To leverage South Korea’s experience in all key aspects of urban transportation reform by twining the East African future mega cities with the Seoul experience with a special emphasis on institutional architecture and modernization of public transport reform.

• Activities: - A study tour to Korea will be organized for a select group of participants who are high-level decision makers in the development of urban mobility (approximately 8 officials with 2 from each of the four East African cities) to expose them to some of Korea's most cutting-edge urban planning. The study tour could combine the trips to South Korea and Japan by collaborating with the LUTP and GFDRR-funded initiatives.

 

East African Urban Mobility Institutional Assessment Objective: To establish a diagnosis and recommendations for improving the institutional arrangements for planning and implementation of urban mobility solutions for the four East African cities.

• Activities: - Substantial original in-country research, preferably by local research teams involving the key stakeholder to collect information on existing institutional arrangements, plans for future development, and opportunities to improve. The analysis will have two main parts: the first part is a “menu” type of analysis that summarizes what has worked and what has not worked for urban mobility institutions set up in these four cities. The second part is four case studies with one for each city, which will include an in-depth analysis of urban mobility institutional setup, capacity, coordination, etc.

 

To provide demand-driven targeted support of the four cities in terms of urban mobility project development and implementation.

• Activities: - Selected strategic technical assistant support for international experts to unlock bottlenecks that participant cities are facing in short term based on the recommendations that emanate from activities #1-3 above

Outcomes:

• Enhanced knowledge on urban mobility development of selected government officials from these four cities; enabling an durable learning network to support future endeavors
• Exposure of officials to good practice in transportation reform, and localized insights for their cities.
• Greater understanding of transport institutional arrangements, challenges, and opportunities in each city.
• Increased stakeholder understanding and ability to deal with targeted challenges.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

• Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)