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Prosperity Fund鈥檚 Future Cities Programme launches in South Africa

皇冠体育app UK Prosperity Fund, in partnership with Future Cities South Africa is launching their Future Cities Programme in three of South Africa鈥檚 major city municipalities: Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.

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South Africa cityscape

皇冠体育app Global Future Cities Programme is an 拢80 million programme, one of the several global programmes run through Prosperity Fund, sets out opportunities to promote inclusive urban economic growth and increase global prosperity by working around the three underpinning themes of Transport, Resilience, Urban Planning.

皇冠体育app programme in South Africa runs from 2019 鈥� 2022. 皇冠体育appre are five individual projects within the three cities, providing technical assistance through our delivery partner, Future Cities South Africa, a PwC lead consortium comprising international and local firms.

Nigel Casey, the British High Commissioner said:

Our South African Future Cities programme launches in earnest this week, with projects in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. We鈥檙e delighted to be able to work with these three municipalities.

皇冠体育app programme has been designed to achieve maximum impact in the areas of transport, urban resilience and sustainable planning.

皇冠体育app projects are being delivered by a PwC lead consortium comprising local and international firms and experts. 皇冠体育app Cape Town project focuses on technical assistance and capacity building around the City鈥檚 Data Strategy to support evidence based decision-making processes.

Each of the projects is designed to address the host city鈥檚 specific needs under the themes of the programme. In Cape Town, for example, the programme provides technical assistance in support of the City鈥檚 ambitious data strategy. This project aims to further enable the City鈥檚 evidence-based decision-making processes to inform robust planning and policy processes.

Launch events are being planned in each city, with the first taking place in Cape Town on the 21st February 2020 at the Civil Centre. This event celebrates the relationship between the UK Foreign Office, 皇冠体育app City of Cape Town and the Future Cities South Africa consortium, and sits alongside the City鈥檚 public launch of their Data Strategy taking place on the same day.

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For media queries, please contact:

Isabel Potgieter
Spokesperson British High Commission
Mobile: +27 (0)833911606
Email: [email protected]

Anelisa Sandi
Public Diplomacy and Communications Officer - Cape Town
Mobile: 081 040 2671
Email: [email protected]

Further information

  • 皇冠体育app Prosperity Fund is a 拢1.3 billion, cross-government fund, which promotes growth and prosperity in developing and middle-income countries. 皇冠体育app Fund launched in 2015 and will run up until 2023.
  • 皇冠体育app fund focuses on the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and aims to promote poverty reduction and sustainable and inclusive urban growth within the beneficiary countries.

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Published 21 February 2020