In the 1990s, urban areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country divided by conflict, were in particular crisis as a result of rapid growth and poor management of public services. The severity of the urban crisis led USAID/DRC toward a focus on urban environmental health programming. Work began in October 2000, with the collaboration between USAID/DRC, the Environmental Health Project (EHP) and the Regional Urban Development Office (RUDO) at USAID/South Africa, to develop and implement an Urban Environmental Health Strategy. Subsequently, three short-term, resultsoriented pilot projects were implemented that were consistent with the strategy. The work ended in January 2002.
Resource collections
- Climate emergency
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
