As part of the library and nursery school project led by the Kigali UFI, residents, associations and local stakeholders came together for a co-design session. This participatory approach follows on from a needs assessment and enables the collective imagination of spaces that are adapted, accessible and conducive to social cohesion.

Around sixty residents of Nyakabanda and Rwezamenyo neighbourhood took part in a three-day capacity-building and gender equity workshop organised by the Rwanda Women’s Network (RWN). The aim was to ensure that everyone – particularly women and people with disabilities – had a voice and a role in designing their neighbourhood.

Antananarivo, 23 July 2025: the Mandroseza neighbourhood celebrates the official inauguration of Kianja Échelle Mandroseza, the second site to be redeveloped as part of the Antananarivo Urban Fabric Initiative (PUA) project.

On the 8th and 9th May 2025, the Antananarivo Urban Fabric Initiatives (PUA) team, in collaboration with the CUA, organised a training and awareness-raising session on women's leadership and gender issues. The session brought together around thirty community players from the Mandroseza and Andraisoro neighbourhoods, who had been successful in the PUA's calls for community development projects, at the Espace Le Jardin de Masha.

In Monrovia, the Urban Fabric Initiative is supporting the transformation of public spaces in three districts in the east of the capital : Lakpazee, Shoe Factory and Woodcamp.