UN-Habitat seeks €10 million EU grant for city renewal tasks in Northern Nigeria 

The United Nations Habitat (UN-Habitat) has introduced that it’s in talks with the European Union to safe a €10 million grant for city renewal tasks in Northern Nigeria, geared toward addressing infrastructure, housing, and repair gaps.

The initiative is a part of UN-Habitat’s broader effort to help sustainable urbanization within the area.

The UN-Habitat’s Government Director Ms. Anaclaudia Rossbach shared the replace on the 2024 UN-Habitat Government Board Assembly in Nairobi, as disclosed in an announcement on the official web site of the Ministry of Housing and City Improvement on Friday.

She additionally highlighted ongoing collaborations with the World Bank and Ekiti State to reinforce city planning and entice funding.

“She introduced that UN-Habitat is negotiating a €10 million grant with the European Union for city integration tasks in Northern Nigeria, alongside different partnerships with the World Bank and Ekiti State for city planning and funding,” the assertion learn partly.

Moreover, Ms. Rossbach introduced that UN-Habitat is planning a high-level go to to Nigeria in 2025 to coincide with the launch of a significant city intervention programme, aiming to strengthen collaboration with native stakeholders and oversee the implementation of transformative city growth tasks.

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The assertion additionally highlighted the Federal Authorities’s efforts to deal with Nigeria’s extreme housing deficit.

Arc. Musa Dangiwa, Minister of Housing and City Improvement, talking on the 2nd Session of the 2024 UN-Habitat Government Board Assembly in Nairobi, revealed that over 75% of the nation’s 42 million housing models are substandard, with almost half of the inhabitants residing in casual settlements.

• To deal with these challenges, Dangiwa outlined the Federal Authorities’s Nationwide City Renewal and Slum Improve Programme (NURSUP), which has already accomplished tasks at 54 websites throughout the nation, with 56 extra tasks at the moment in progress.

• These initiatives deal with bettering crucial infrastructure, together with water provide, solar-powered streetlights, entry roads, drainage programs, and waste administration options.

• The Minister emphasised the significance of robust partnerships with worldwide organizations like UN-Habitat to scale up these efforts and guarantee sustainable city growth.

To help these partnerships, President Bola Tinubu not too long ago accepted a $500,000 contribution to settle Nigeria’s excellent obligations to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) for the 2022–2023 interval.

This cost kinds a part of Nigeria’s monetary dedication below the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UN-Habitat and can assist fund the operations of the UN-Habitat Nation Workplace in Nigeria.