Harare Sustainable City Initiative: Promotion of Carbon-Neutral Urban Basic Services And Energy Efficient Built Environment.

About this project

The project aims at enhancing the overall wellbeing, health and security conditions of Zimbabwe citizens and particularly those living in informal settlements, through access to better urban basic services from sustainable solid waste management and the use of renewable energy systems; the project will also create systems for access to affordable carbon-neutral building materials. This will be achieved through improved operations of municipal solid waste management, energy and resource recovery, renewable energy generation and promotion of climate responsive building material production. The project will enhance energy access of targeted communities by providing reliable and renewable energy supply generated from locally available resources. According to UN-Habitat’s SDG indicator 11.6.1 survey in 2021, 40 only 25% of total municipal solid waste generated in Harare are collected and 2% is managed in controlled facilities 27% is much lower than average of Sub-Saharan Africa. Lack of service coverage and low efficiency of waste collection services is due to ageing, dilapidated and overused equipment + infrastructure, frequent breakdowns of collection vehicles due to lack of maintenance (O & M), overreliance on hired equipment and contracting, operating environment characterized by hyperinflation, political interference, and weak public financial management system. Zimbabwe has less than 50% of electricity access, and urban and peri-urban poor have limited access to reliable en…

Published by

UN-Habitat · Multilateral

Countries

Zimbabwe

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative management

Funded by

Sweden-Permanent Mission

Accountable

UN-Habitat

Published by UN-Habitat to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 13 Nov 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 41120-147490.

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