AGP Executive Report

Water and Sanitation: A Zambia utility partnership offers practical lessons for water-stressed communities: improved treatment and more reliable supply were accompanied by a 35% drop in non-bloody diarrhoea in one district. The experience highlights how stronger water services can protect public health. Urban Planning: A new World Bank report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities need better infrastructure, financing and planning to turn urban expansion into improved living conditions. The pressures are relevant to Somaliland’s towns as they grow.

Urban Growth: A World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities need better infrastructure and planning to create jobs and improve living standards. It projects 748 million more urban residents by 2050, a challenge with growing relevance for Somaliland’s cities.

Urban Planning: A World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s rapidly growing cities need better infrastructure and smarter planning to turn urban growth into opportunity. The findings offer wider context for managing Somaliland’s expanding towns, though the report does not address the country specifically.

Urban Sustainability: A World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities could face worsening infrastructure and jobs pressures without better planning and investment. It projects 1.7 billion urban residents by 2050, but offers no Somaliland-specific findings.

Urban Planning: A new World Bank report says Africa’s urban population could reach 1.7 billion by 2050, while weak planning and infrastructure threaten to deepen poverty and informal work. Berbera Corridor: Ethiopia still sends 96.7% of its maritime cargo through Djibouti; Berbera accounts for 2.74%, despite years of efforts to diversify routes.

Urban Planning: A World Bank report warns that Sub-Saharan Africa’s fast-growing cities risk falling behind on infrastructure and jobs without stronger planning and investment. It projects 748 million more urban residents by 2050, a trend with implications for Somaliland’s own growing cities.

Urban Planning: A new World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities risk deepening infrastructure and jobs crises without better planning and investment. With the continent’s urban population projected to reach 1.7 billion by 2050, the findings highlight the importance of planning for growth in Somaliland’s cities.

Urban Planning: A World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities risk deepening job and infrastructure pressures without better planning and investment. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to add 748 million urban residents by 2050 and needs about 15 million jobs each year—an urgent challenge for Somaliland’s expanding towns, too.

Urban Growth: A World Bank-backed report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities need better infrastructure and smarter planning to avoid deepening poverty. It projects 748 million additional urban residents by 2050—a development challenge with clear implications for sustainable city planning.

Coastal Access and Regional Tensions: Ethiopia’s push for Red Sea access, including its proposed Somaliland coastal deal, keeps sovereignty and regional stability in focus. Urban Planning: A World Bank report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities need better infrastructure, financing and planning to create jobs and improve living standards—a challenge facing Somaliland’s urban centres too. Port Dependence: Ethiopia still routes 96.71% of its maritime cargo through Djibouti, while Berbera handles 2.74%, leaving trade concentrated despite years of diversification efforts.

Urban Planning: A World Bank report warns that rapid African urban growth is outpacing infrastructure, job creation and effective planning. With the continent’s urban population projected to reach 1.7 billion by 2050, the findings underline the need for Somaliland’s cities to plan for growth and livelihoods. Soil and Food Resilience: An Ethiopia farming project shows how composting and earthworms can help restore degraded soil: one farmer’s maize yield rose 67% after using vermicompost. The program, supported by IGAD and World Bank financing, offers a regional example of practical ways to strengthen food systems.

Urban Planning: A World Bank report warns that Africa’s fast-growing cities need better infrastructure, planning and job creation to prevent deeper poverty—challenges with direct relevance to Hargeisa’s expansion. Land and Food Systems: IGAD’s regional resilience program is helping farmers restore degraded soil through composting and other practical methods, with one Ethiopian farmer reporting a 67% rise in maize yields after adopting the approach.

Land and Food Resilience: IGAD’s World Bank-backed Food Systems Resilience Program is promoting soil restoration and stronger livelihoods across the region. In Ethiopia, one farmer says vermicompost training helped lift his maize yield by 67% after years of soil degradation—an approach that could offer lessons for climate-resilient farming in Somaliland.

Land and Food Resilience: IGAD’s World Bank-backed food systems program is promoting soil restoration across the Horn. In Ethiopia, a farmer using worm-made compost and reduced fertilizer saw maize yields rise 67%, offering a practical approach to soil degradation and food insecurity.

Food-System Resilience: IGAD’s regional program is backing soil restoration and composting to improve harvests and livelihoods; one Ethiopian farmer reported a 67% maize-yield increase after adopting vermicompost. Flood Adaptation: Somaliland farmers are exploring ways to capture increasingly intense floods and use grasses to re-green degraded land, as erratic rains and erosion deepen pressure on crops, rangelands and food security.

Climate Adaptation: Somaliland farmers face worsening drought and intense downpours that erode cropland and rangelands. A new approach aims to capture floodwater and use it to regrow grasses, helping restore degraded land. Food Resilience: IGAD’s regional food-systems program is promoting practical ways to rebuild soil and livelihoods, including composting that helped an Ethiopian farmer raise maize yields.