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To complement the objectives and achievements of UN-HABITAT's Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation (LV-WATSAN) initiative, a broader programme of development activities to revitalize economies in and around the fifteen selected secondary cities under the LV-WATSAN Initiative will be jointly implemented by several organizations of the UN system, namely, FAO, IFAD, ILO, UN-HABITAT, UNIDO and WFP, with financial support from the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), among other funding agencies. |
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Location: Lake Victoria region of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda |
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Partner: Government: Ministries of Trade, Industries, Marketing, Agriculture and Fisheries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
Local authorities: Local authorities in project implementation regions
United Nations:UN-HABITAT, FAO, UNIDO, IFAD, WFP, ILO
Research Institute:Univeristy of Dar es Salaam, University of Makerere, Maruku Agricultural Research Institute (ARI-Maruku), Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Inter-Governmental Organization:CFC |
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Background
To complement the objectives and achievements of UN-HABITAT's Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation (LV-WATSAN) initiative, a broader programme of development activities to revitalize economies in and around the fifteen selected secondary cities under the LV-WATSAN Initiative will be jointly implemented by several organizations of the UN system, namely, FAO, IFAD, ILO, UN-HABITAT, UNIDO and WFP, with financial support from the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), among other funding agencies.
Objectives
The major developmental objectives of LV-LED are - promote balanced territorial development in the Lake Victoria basin through enhanced rural-urban linkages,
- alleviate poverty through the promotion of employment and other income-generating activities, notably through joint pilot projects,
- reduce the rate of rural-to-urban migration in the region and
- improve basic urban infrastructure, including in secondary towns, also as a means to contribute to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals.
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