In African cities, housing, transport, services, urban spaces and productive activities are the result of initiatives, investments and actions carried out by a wide range of institutional, formal and informal, public and private players. Yet these dynamics represent a way of making the city that the public authorities often struggle to follow, or even to (re)understand in the case of informal activities.

In July, the UFI Dakar inaugurated its fourth site at the Lycée des Parcelles Assainies (LPA). The new pedestrian areas, pavements and public benches will enable people to wait for the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in complete safety and peace.

The time has come to celebrate the completion of the latest initiatives of the Pépinière urbaine de Tunisie! The official inauguration of urban initiatives in the towns of Béja and Amdoun took place from 26 to 30 September 2023.

The UFI Tunisia organised a day of exchanges to identify best practice in the sustainability of urban initiatives. The aim : to transform the experiences of the Tunisian team into knowledge that can be shared within the UFI network and beyond.

Since the project was launched in March 2023, the PUA team has identified around forty public spaces in the Malagasy capital. In recent months, it has begun a more in-depth analysis of nine of them, located in the Lalankely 3 project neighbourhoods.