Improving The Living Conditions Of Roça Sundy Community, Príncipe Island, Through Sustainable Resettlement

The main purpose of the project is to improve the living conditions of the Roça Sundy community through sustainable resettlement. In order to achieve it, the community will participate in the design, decision-making and physical implementation of the project. The design of the future resettlement will incorporate eco-friendly materials with the minimum CO2 footprint and will be in line with the Right to Adequate Housing minimum standards. This will guarantee the access of the community of Roça Sundy to adequate, resilient and sustainable housing with tenure security, infrastructure, basic services and public facilities. Also, the project has a component on livelihoods and capacity-building to guarantee the social sustainability of the resettlement process. For that reason, the project was carefully designed in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, incorporating 17 SDG indicators as its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This has enabled UN-Habitat to engage with other UN agencies and development partners in the initiative; the UN Resident Coordinator for São Tomé and Príncipe proposed to UN-Habitat to develop a UN Joint Programme on Sustainable Development in Principe Island around this initiative, which will be led by UN-Habitat, with immediate engagement of ILO and UNDP and possibly UNICEF and FAO as well (discussion already started). In this sense, the project will also work as a monitoring platform of the SDGs in Principe Island.

In this sense, the target population will not only benefit from the outputs of the 5.5 million Euros granted by HBD (of which 4.7 million Euros will be implemented through UN-Habitat), but also from resources to be mobilized by development partners and in-kind contributions such as the land for housing by HBD, the land for agriculture and land titling by the RGP, among others.

The identified partners to this project area: the RGP (the Regional Secretariats of Economy, Infrastructure and Social Affairs) MIRNA, UNRCU, UNDP, ILO, UNICEF, FAO and ALISEI, a local NGO that will act as an implementing partner.

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UN-Habitat is providing both knowledge services and high-level policy advisory throughout this project. The agency is providing knowledge services to the RGP on land conflict management, basic service provision and social housing implementation and to the community on the use of local building materials and local sanitation solutions. It is also providing the RGP and MIRNA high-level policy advisory on land management and community development.

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Country:
Sao Tome & Principe
Region: Africa
Donors: Here be Dragons
Theme: Multisector aid for basic social services, Urban development and management, Housing policy and administrative management
Project Timeline
End Date: 18th November 2021
Start Date: 1st June 2017
Budget Utilisation
Budget: $5,141,694
Expenditure: $3,085,016

Outputs List