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Shelter Afrique urges African Governments to prioritize housing to achieve SDGs

MSME Africa by MSME Africa
October 13, 2021
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Shelter Afrique urges African Governments to prioritize housing to achieve SDGs

Shelter Afrique CEO Andrew Chimphondah with Shelter Afrique AGM Bureau Chairperson Hon. Célestine Ketcha Courtes

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African governments cannot talk of achieving Sustainable Development Goals without thinking about proper housing for their growing populations – Ms. Courtes.

Pan-African housing development financier, Shelter Afrique has urged African governments to prioritize provision of affordable housing to their citizens as a key step towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Speaking in Nairobi after paying a courtesy call to Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development James Macharia, The President of Shelter Afrique General Assembly and Cameroon’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development Hon. Célestine Ketcha Courtes said housing is at the heart of Sustainable Development Goals, adding that little could be achieved if the housing sector is ignored.

“African governments cannot talk of achieving Sustainable Development Goals without thinking about proper housing for their growing populations,” Ms. Courtes said, adding that no one should be left behind.

“Leaving no one behind means governments should be able to provide decent housing to the lady selling vegetables at an open air market in Yaoundé, to a taxi-man in Nairobi – basically being able to provide housing to those who cannot walk into a commercial bank and obtain a mortgage. This is what Shelter Afrique is striving to help African governments achieve.”

According to Shelter Afrique research arm, Centre of Excellence, the overall shortage of housing in Africa is estimated to be 56 million housing units. Out of this, more than 90 per cent or 50 million units are in the affordable housing bracket.

Ms. Courtes noted that as a response, Cameroon had joined hands with Shelter Afrique to establish a Construction Company that will produce construction materials such as polystyrene block production plant, panel production plan and other associated equipment at affordable cost.

“To reduce the construction cost, Africa needs to go through industrialization and this is the choice we have made in Cameroon when we partnered with Shelter Afrique to establish this factory. Shelter Afrique will then be able to duplicate these projects in other member States,” Ms. Courtes said.

Positive moves

Ms. Courtes said the endorsement of the Yaoundé Declarations adopted at Shelter Afrique 40th General Assembly held in Yaoundé – Cameroon, by various stakeholders was a positive step.  The Declaration seeks to enhance mechanisms for the mass production of decent and affordable housing in the continent to achieve social and economic development.

“Member countries responded well to the Declarations with 25 members endorsing it at the onset – more Member States continue to endorse it.  We believe it’s the silver bullet that we need to address the housing crisis across the continent,” she said.

She also lauded Member States for their positive responses to calls for recapitalization, which she says, has boosted Shelter Afrique’s capital base and its ability to deliver housing and support urban development across the continent.

Several countries have ramped up capital subscription in Shelter Afrique in 2021 including Kenya (US$9.3million), Cameroon (US$3.53million), Mali (US$2.06million), Rwanda (US$1.1million), Uganda (US$0.1million), Togo (US$0.58million, Tanzania (US$2.67million), Swaziland (US$0.3million), Ivory Coast (US$0.57million), and DRC (US$2.67million).

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