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Wednesday, May 31: Urban resilience – Tanzania’s programme

An introduction to the Tanzania Urban Resilience Programme and initiatives to improve resilience to climate risk in the country

08:00 – 09:00: Registration

09:00 – 10:00: Opening Remarks

Brigadier General Msuya, Prime Minister’s Office – Disaster MGMT Department

Programme launch video

Keynote: Edward Anderson, Senior ICT and Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank

10:00 – 10:30: Tea break

10:30 – 11:30: Session one: Understanding Risk: New Tools

How can we improve localized efforts to identify climate risk?  This session will comprise of presentations and discussion on innovation for risk identification being piloted in Tanzania and surrounding regions.

Facilitator: Edward Anderson, Senior ICT and Disaster Risk Management Specialist, World Bank

  • Vivien Deparday, GFDRR
  • Tara O’Shea, Planet Labs
  • Muhammad Juma, Commission of Lands – Zanzibar
  • Mark Hegnauer, Deltares

11:30 – 12:30: Session two: Reducing Urban Flood Risk

How do we ensure that risk does not translate into disaster? This plenary session will focus on methods for urban risk reduction that have inspired or are being implemented by the Tanzania Urban Resilience Programme.

Facilitator: Andre Bald, Program Leader, Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank

Primer: Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Programme Manager, ICLEI

Primer: Adri Verwey, Urban Specialist, FloodConsult, World Bank

Panel:

  • Fanuel O.S Kalugendo, Dar Rapid Transit
  • Lars Frederiksen, Specialist and Project Manager, COWI – Urban Water and Climate Adaption

12:30 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 15:00: Session three: Community Engagement for Urban Resilience

How can community engagement and public awareness campaigns improve success and sustainability of urban resilience efforts? This plenary session will surround lessons from community-driven projects and plans for future public participation.

Facilitator: Amy Faust, Urban Specialist, World Bank

Primer: Tania Hamilton, Mlalakua River Restoration – Nipe Fagio

Primer: Tim Ndezi, Director, Centre for Community Initiatives

Panel:

  • Osiligi Lossai, Ward Executive Officer, Kigogo Dar es Salaam
  • Jutta Carmago, BORDA Africa

15:00 – 16:00: Session four: Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management

How can we better prepare for climate related disaster? This plenary session will highlight efforts taken and required to improve emergency management in Tanzania’s rapidly growing urban centres.

Facilitator: Eric Dickson, Senior Urban Specialist, World Bank

Primer: Nyambiri Kimacha, Project Manager, Red Cross – Zuia Mafuriko

Primer: Frank Annor, Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory

Primer: Christopher Mnzava, Coordinator, DarMAERT

Panel:

  • Amini Mshana, DarMAERT
  • Mussa Natty, Regional Administrative Secretary Office

16:00 – 16:30: Tea break

16:30 – 17:30: Session five: Resilience Academy and Strengthening Knowledge

How can we equip students with the skills necessary to innovate for resilience? A plenary on the proposed Resilience Academy and additional efforts to improve education on methods for climate risk reduction.

Facilitator: Lorena Trejos, Disaster Management Consultant, World Bank

Primer: Dr. Buruhani Nyenzi, World Meteorological Organization

Primer: Jeroen Verplanke, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente

Panel:

  • COSTECH Representative – Dr. Hassan Mshinda
  • Ardhi Representative – Dr. Ally Namangaya
  • UDSM Representative – Dr. Herbert Hambati

17:30 – 18:00: Closing remarks – DfID

18:00 – 19:00: Cocktail reception at the Hyatt

Greening Africa’s Cities: Enhancing the relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

Thursday, June 1: Urbanization and Environment in African Cities

Understanding issues of urbanization, natural environment, and green urban development in Africa and learning about priorities and commitments cities are making to overcome these challenges

09:00 – 09:15: Opening remarks

Eng. Mussa Iyombe, Permanent Secretary, President’s Office – Regional Administration and Local Government

Bella Bird, Country Director, Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi and Somalia, World Bank

09:15 – 09:30: Keynote – Urbanization and the Natural Environment: Why it matters and what can African cities do to mitigate negative environmental externalities?

Urbanization in Africa is putting pressure on the natural environment and carries tangible economic, fiscal, and social costs. However, there are important opportunities to change the trajectory that African cities are on, and to move towards a more harmonious relationship between the natural and built environments if focused action is taken.

Jennifer Musisi, Executive Director, Kampala Capital City Authority

9:30 – 10:00: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Eng. Mussa Natty, Principal Engineer, Regional Administrative Secretariat, Dar es Salaam

10:00 – 10:30: Urbanization, the Environment, and Green Urban Development in Africa

This session provides an overall analysis of the impact of urbanization on the natural environment in African cities, identifies and assesses key challenges, and suggests an agenda for policy action.

Roland White, Global Lead: City Management, Governance and Financing, Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Global Practice, The World Bank

10:30 – 11:00: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Eng. Mussa Natty, Principal Engineer, Regional Administrative Secretariat, Dar es Salaam

11:00 – 11:15: Tea break/group photo

11:15 – 11:30: Environmental Challenges Facing Africa’s Cities: The case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

This session focuses on the key environmental challenges facing Dar es Salaam and measures it is taking to mitigate negative environmental challenges.

Theresia Mbando, Regional Administrative Secretary

11:30 – 11:45: Role of natural systems in the mitigation of flooding in Dar es Salaam

This session presents key findings from the analysis of green engineering and environmental restoration options for addressing the issue of flooding in Dar es Salaam.

Jane Turpie, Director, Anchor Environmental & University of Cape Town

11:45 – 12:15: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Eng. Mussa Natty, Principal Engineer, Regional Administrative Secretariat, Dar es Salaam

12:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:15: Environmental Challenges Facing Africa’s Cities: Kampala, Uganda

This session focuses on the key environmental challenges facing Kampala and measures it is taking to mitigate negative environmental challenges.

Najib Bateganya, Environmental Management and Water and Sanitation Specialist, Kampala Capital City Authority

14:15 – 14:30: Costs and benefits of restoring the Nakivubo Wetland in Kampala

This session presents key findings from the assessment of the current state of Kampala’s Nakivubo wetland, the interventions that would be required to restore its functioning and suitability for recreation, and the benefits and viability of doing so.

Jane Turpie, Director, Anchor Environmental & University of Cape Town

14:30 – 15:00: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Eng. Mussa Natty, Principal Engineer, Regional Administrative Secretariat, Dar es Salaam

15:00 – 15:15: Environmental challenges facing Africa’s cities: The case of Durban, South Africa

This session focuses on the key environmental challenges facing Durban and some measures it is taking in terms of open space planning, protection, and management to mitigate negative environmental challenges.

Musa Mbhele, Head, Development Planning Environment and Management, EThekwini Municipality, Durban

15:15 – 15:30: The value of Durban’s natural capital and its role in green urban development

This session presents key findings from the valuation of urban natural capital assets and ecosystem services and the identification, quantification, and valuation of the costs and benefits associated with specific development interventions.

Jane Turpie, Director, Anchor Environmental & University of Cape Town

15:30 – 16:00: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Eng. Mussa Natty, Principal Engineer, Regional Administrative Secretariat, Dar es Salaam

16:00 – 17:00: Green Urban Development in Africa: Lessons for African cities

A moderated discussion with key city leaders to reflect on how they have balanced the trade offs between natural capital conservation and other land uses, and how African cities can move towards a more harmonious relationship between the natural and built environment.

Moderator: Eric Chinje, Africa Media Initiative

  • His Worship Desmond Bikoko, Mayor of Lilongwe, Malawi
  • Daviz Simango, Mayor of Beira, Mozambique
  • Mayor Wilson Kalumba, Mayor of Lusaka, Zambia

17:00 – 18:00: Cocktail Reception at the Hyatt

 

Friday, June 2: Green Urban Development – Strategies and Implementation

Discussions on urban planning and infrastructural development toward implementing green urban development principles in an African city context. 

09:00 – 9:15: Welcome, recap and outline

09:15 – 09:30: Promoting ecosystems-based solutions in Africa

This session reflects on challenges and lessons from ICLEI’s experiences in rapidly urbanizing African cities in promoting the value of ecosystem services as assets to enhance human survival and well-being, and as a means to promote vibrancy in growing urban spaces in Africa.

Ernita van Wyk, Senior Professional Officer: Social-Ecological Systems, ICLEI

09:30-10:00: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Program Manager, Cities Biodiversity Center, ICLEI

10:00-10:15: Green Urban Development and Sustainable Cities in Africa

This session presents Conservation International’s work in supporting cities around the world to overcome their sustainability challenges. It draws from ongoing work in Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, and Mexico City and proposes steps African cities can take and adopt moving forward.

Michael O’Brien-Onyeka, Senior Vice President, Africa Field Division, Conservation International

10:15-10:45: Discussion and  Q&A

Facilitator: Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Program Manager, Cities Biodiversity Center, ICLEI

10:45 – 11:00: Tea break

11:00-11:15: Green Urban Development Toolkit.

This session presents a compilation of a toolkit of concrete policy instruments that can be adapted and utilized by African city and national governments to address environmental externalities and ecosystem services impacts.

Petrica Rowcroft, Lead Investigator and Technical Director, AECOM

11:15-11:45: Discussion and  Q&A

Facilitator: Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Program Manager, Cities Biodiversity Center, ICLEI

12:00 – 14:00: Lunch

14:00-14:45: Water funds and science for cities for green urban development

This session will discuss watershed management through water funds (Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes) in Africa and through non-payment types of schemes. It will also discuss the urban water blueprint of cities and the global report on urban reforestation and air quality.

  • Lucy Magembe, Sr. Policy Representative, Tanzania, The Nature Conservancy
  • Fred Kihara, Africa Water Fund Manager, The Nature Conservancy
  • Louise Stafford, South Africa Water Fund Director, The Nature Conservancy
  • Timm Kroeger, Resource Economist and Lead Science Council Associate, Office of the Chief Scientist, The Nature Conservancy

14:45-15:15: Discussion and Q&A

Facilitator: Ingrid Coetzee, Senior Program Manager, Cities Biodiversity Center, ICLEI

15:15 – 16:00: Panel with donors and other partners

Discussion with donors to explore ways to implement green urban development

  • Bella Bird, Country Director, Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi and Somalia, World Bank

  • Clara Makenya, National Coordination Officer and Focal Point for Tanzania, UNEP

  • Charle Prosper, Economist, African Development Bank

  • Hyonjong Lee, Chief Representative, Korea Export Import Bank

16:00 – 16:15: Closing remarks