Total cost
$120,000
Partners
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Ministry of Local Government, Regional
and Urban Development
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(Department of Regional and Town Planning)
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North West District Council
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Chobe District Land Board
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United Nations Developmet Programme (UNDP)
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat)
Background and objectives
This project was follow-up to the
national settlement strategy prepared by the Government. Its goal
was to prepare district settlement development strategies based on the
National Settlement Strategy. UN-Habitat was invited to provide
technical assistance to prepare the district strategies and in so doing
to build the capacity of the Department of Town and Regional Planning (DTRP)
to undertake similar programmes. DTRP provided staff from its regional
offices in Maun in the Northwest District Council Francis Town and Kasane
to work with the two international and two national consultants.
The activity took three months.
Activities
Activities included field work to
gather data on development issues, meetings with the communities to obtain
consensus on the data collected, analysis of the data and preparation of
draft proposals to address identified development issues. Specific
attention was paid to tourism in the Chobe District and to the Kasane-Kazungura
commercial and planning area. A settlement strategy was prepared
for endorsement.
Results
The team spent 35 days in the field
and worked in the district offices in Maun and Kasane and at the DTRP offices
in Gaborone. The final document of the Chobe District settlement
development strategy was completed in Nairobi by the two international
consultants.
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