Total cost
$2,862,723
Partners
Urban Planning Agency, Secretariat of
Housing and Utilities
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
(UN-Habitat)
Background and objectives
The Libyan population is projected to
increase to 6 million by the year 2010 and to 8 million ten years later.
Over 90 per cent of the population increase is in urban centres. This project
is completely funded by the Libyan Government through a UN-Habitat
trust fund. Under the joint management of the Urban Planning Agency
(UPA) and the project, Libyan planners and technicians are engaged, trained
and guided to carry out numerous activities. The project aims to
technically reinforce the UPA to implement a large scale regional and settlements
planning programme, produce the final 1996-2020 draft national physical
perspective, setup automated settlements development planning decision-making
and land use development control support systems (GIS) in the main UPA
offices and to provide support to the housing and utilities departments
and organize and directly support training of officials from the planning,
housing and utilities departments of the secretariat and government consulting
companies.
Activities
To achieve these objectives, the project
carries out activities based on outputs from the earlier project LIB/91/X01
through the use of national and international expertise. Activities include
evaluation of the 1996-2020 draft National Physical Perspective Plan (NPPP),
and production final 2000-2020 NPPP. Furthermore, activities include
the setting-up of operational geographic information management systems
(GIS) in the UPA main office and familiarizing the staff with the operation
of the equipment.
Results
The project has prepared digital mapping
proposals and has evaluated offers received; as costing was too high, it
was decided to include this activity in a separate project (the Third Generation
Planning). The project has procured equipment and computer programmes
and submitted the draft 1996-2020 NPPP for comments and finalization. The
NPPP will be discussed and disseminated during the spring of 2001.
The training and fellowships programme Libyan officials from the UPA is
continuing with one staff member undertaking doctoral studies and two others
studying for one year in ITC (2000-2001). Study tours are also ongoing
to various places of interest and similar context. The Secretariat
of Housing and Utilities has requested further support from UN-Habitat
and UNOPS for management of the large-scale third- generation planning
(2000-2020) on the modalities of implementation. The new project
will provide support to the Urban Planning Agency on the technical management
of this large-scale regional and urban planning programme, the establishment
of urban information systems in the main cities and continuation of institutional
capacity building and staff training.
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