{"id":5788,"date":"2019-10-07T10:28:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T07:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"fast-track-efforts-to-ensure-healthy-urban-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/07\/fast-track-efforts-to-ensure-healthy-urban-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast-Track Efforts To Ensure Healthy Urban Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\u00a0The New Times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is World Habitat Day.\nThe day, which falls on the first Monday of October, serves as an opportunity\nto draw attention to the state of cities and towns and recommit to sustainable\nurbanization that leaves no one behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, the day will be\nobserved under the theme, \u201cFrontier Technologies as an innovative tool to\ntransform waste into wealth\u201d. This is a theme that particularly resonates with\nRwanda\u2019s development ambition, with the country seeking to increasingly\nleverage technology and innovation to address some of the traditional and\nemerging challenges that undermine sustainable urbanization and adequate\nshelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there are issues that\ncontinue to dog the country\u2019s sustainable urbanization efforts, such as the\nchallenges associated with management of solid waste and lack of a central\nsewerage system for major cities, especially the City of Kigali. There are also\nchallenges related to residents who continue to live in disaster-prone areas,\nwhile there are also limited public green spaces in urban centers that are key\nto healthy urban living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Generally, there is a\nconsensus on the challenges that affect our cities and towns, as well as what\nneeds to be done to address them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nonetheless, sometimes those\nin charge don\u2019t show the necessary urgency to reverse the trend. For instance,\nit\u2019s been years since authorities set out the fix the issue of lack of a\ncentral sewerage system in the City of Kigali \u2013 a problem that constitutes a\nticking time bomb \u2013 but the effort remains shrouded in bureaucracy and red\ntape\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/opinions\/editorial-fast-track-efforts-ensure-healthy-urban-living\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0The New Times Today is World Habitat Day. The day, which falls on the first Monday of October, serves as an opportunity to draw attention to the state of cities&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}