Smart City: KCCA to focus on infrastructure, technology

Kisaka said the authority wants to promote a conducive business and healthy environment for the city residents.

She noted that Government and development partners have provided funds to rehabilitate over 30 city roads in the five Kampala city divisions. Additionally, the authority seeks to decongest the city of illegal vendors and hawkers.

“Our goal is to promote a smart city through focusing on infrastructure, technology and promotion of people’s well-being. We have received some funding from development partners which will help us rehabilitate 30 city roads,” she said.

Kisaka revealed that Government has already provided a ten-acre piece of land in the city where the chased vendors and hawkers will be settled, adding that this year, no one will be allowed to operate on city streets.

Meanwhile, she warned that no illegal developer will be tolerated as all illegal structures will be destroyed to protect city dwellers from poor quality structures which have claimed lives in the recent past.

In 2021, KCCA launched the Kampala City Roads Rehabilitation Project. The project is aimed at increasing the stock and quality of strategic infrastructure to accelerate Uganda’s competitiveness.

Kampala requires significant infrastructural investments to shore up its productivity and ease of doing business.

This 48-months project is worth US$ 288 Million and this loan was effective July 2021.

The project is funded by the African Development Bank and African Development Fund, and is being implemented by KCCA.

Some of the specific objectives of the proposed project include: To enhance transport efficiency thereby enabling the City of Kampala to maximise agglomerative benefits of access and improved attractiveness resulting from reduced traffic congestion through upgrade and expansion of road network and to improve air quality in the city through implementation of Scheduled Eco-Bus transit Services and broadening travel choices for non-vehicular movements within Kampala by expanding networks of walkways and cycling tracks