Triple Line is carring out a pre-feasibility study to inform the design of a technical assistance programme as part of the larger Team Europe Initiative (TEI) and is supporting sustainable urban development in intermediary cities in Tanzania. The focus will be on the cities of Mwanza and Tanga; and sustainable urban development in this context is stated as ‘improving the conditions for greening cities and job creation’. Both cities are predominantly reliant on agriculture to support employment, yet the ability to build higher added value economic activities is constrained by weak trading systems and supply chain infrastructure and increasing threat level from climatic and natural hazards.
As such the project will look to highlight opportunities for supply chain enhancements to improve market function for key food-related value chains. These opportunities would be based around a list of investments identified in the strategic development/ master plans of Mwanza and Tanga. Further, strong emphasis is to be placed on how these urban food systems can be steered towards climate resilient development pathways i.e., identifying and mitigating the contributions activities along the supply and value-chains make to climate change (emissions) and the identifying and managing risks to people, infrastructure and other assets along these chains that arise from climate-related hazards. Early identification of these opportunities can then be embedded in future programme design.
