African Cities Program Methodology

The Bank has launched its African Cities Program in 2021 to work intensively with selected investment focused cities across Africa, providing capacity development, planning and governance support to systematically prepare cities for investments that the Bank can finance.

The present methodology provides the guiding framework for the African Cities Program, and strives to be a useful resource for city leaders and practitioners, Bank staff and external partners and stakeholders to systematically profile the cities’ current situation, develop a City Action Plan that provides concrete path for the identification and preparation of transformative investments for more climate-resilient, liveable and productive cities.

The rapidly developing cities across our continent need massive investments to provide infrastructure and essential services, and with the African Cities Program we aim to demonstrate a way to close this investment gap.