Agatare project to upgrade informal settlements in Biryogo, Agatare, Kiyovu and Rwampara
Kigali, 6 April 2021: The upgrading of Biryogo, Agatare, Kiyovu and Rwampara informal settlements in Nyarugenge District is progressing well and efforts seek to ensure that the upgrading of informal settlements be replicated in other districts of City of Kigali under Rwanda Urban Development Project II, a World Bank funded project.
The approach seeks to upgrade such slums while ‘minimizing recurrent eviction of dwellers’ and thus enables the city to deal with the high housing demand in the city as the residents are facilitated to refurbish their houses.
After the pilot phase, the project is going to be replicated in ten cells of Nyarugenge District, three cells of Kicukiro District and two cells of Gasabo District.
Most of these unplanned settlements do not have basic infrastructure such as roads, pedestrian ways, drainages, street lights, electricity, water and others that are needed to facilitate people’s daily businesses.
Agatare Upgrading Project which started in 2018 has overhauled informal settlements in Biryogo, Agatare, Kiyovu, and Rwampala areas that are said to host more than 83 per cent of the over 26,000 residents of Nyarugenge Sector in Nyarugenge District.
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