Govt improving slums â€" Babu
Apr 28, 2003
THE State Minister for Housing, Capt. Francis Babu, has said the Government is implementing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to ensure that living conditions of slum dwellers improve by 2020, reports Jonathan Angura.
Babu said 60% of the urban population in Uganda lives in slum areas with insecure land tenure, flooding, poor sanitation and inadequate refuse collection.
This was in a speech read by the assistant commissioner for human settlement in the works, housing and communications ministry, William Walaga, at the opening of the City Community Challenge (C3) low cost housing scheme in Mpumudde Division, Jinja Municipality on Friday.
Babu said the Government had interventions to address slum problems by upgrading them. However, these were not enough and the Government had established a national Steering Committee on Urban Development to look into the matter, he said.
The C3 scheme started in February 2001 and was financed by the British Department for International Development. It has so far constructed 33 housing units at sh3m each in Mpumudde.
Babu said 60% of the urban population in Uganda lives in slum areas with insecure land tenure, flooding, poor sanitation and inadequate refuse collection.
This was in a speech read by the assistant commissioner for human settlement in the works, housing and communications ministry, William Walaga, at the opening of the City Community Challenge (C3) low cost housing scheme in Mpumudde Division, Jinja Municipality on Friday.
Babu said the Government had interventions to address slum problems by upgrading them. However, these were not enough and the Government had established a national Steering Committee on Urban Development to look into the matter, he said.
The C3 scheme started in February 2001 and was financed by the British Department for International Development. It has so far constructed 33 housing units at sh3m each in Mpumudde.