Bridging Inequalities through greener municipal services

About this project

The underlying intervention logic for this action is to contribute to South Africa¿s efforts to tackle inequality and SA¿s energy transition through improved delivery of service that have an impact on climate, environmental and gender targets. The action aims to do this by providing direct support and capacity building to municipalities, districts, and institutions that support local authorities, including on energy and water efficiency, waste management and transport, gender responsive service delivery and gender budgeting. The action will support selected South African cities to address some of these key service delivery challenges while focusing on smart and green solutions, enabled by digitalisation and the use of technologies. It will help build adaptive capacity and capabilities in the face of climate change, resource depletion, financial shocks, growing inequality and poverty, in particular inequality in sustainable access to (greener) water, energy or waste management services. By choosing the municipal level as the intersection, this action will combine addressing the strategic objectives of the MIP 2021-2027 that relate to innovative solutions for improved service delivery under priority area 2, and to the support to cities and hubs of green and sustainable transformation under priority area 1. SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities will be interlinked with other significant SDGs including clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), affordable and clean energ…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 5Gender Equality
• 6Clean Water and Sanitation
• 7Affordable and Clean Energy
• 9Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 11Sustainable Cities and Communities

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Countries

South Africa

Sectors

Decentralisation and support to subnational governmentDemocratic participation and civil societyUrban development and management

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributesDisability inclusion · Also contributes

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2021-ACT-61408.

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