Background and objectives:

The goal of the project was to support the Government of Nasarawa State to define and implement Master plans for Lafia, Doma, Karu and Keffi implementing capacity-building activities towards achieving the goals of Nasarawa State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategies for poverty eradication. 
In this framework, the Government of Nasarawa State appealed to UN-HABITAT to facilitate access to global knowledge-base and technical expertise on resources for urban environmental management to its state agencies, urban authorities and capacity-building institutions.

Detailed objectives are to:

• Assist the state to promote and implement capacity-building activities at state and cities levels with the use of rapid urban profiling, in organizing and carrying out socio-economic studies and analysis.
• Support key stakeholders in organizing and conducting city-wide consultations.
• Assist the relevant office and agencies in formulating the master (structure) plans for the four urban areas.
• Assist the state government in setting up the framework for plan implementation and in documenting the project as a best practice.

Activities:
The main activities include:   

• Training of consultants and staff of the State Office of Lands, Survey and Urban Planning.
• Conducting baseline socio-economic and land use studies to identify critical environmental and socio economic issues of development in the three cities.
• Preparing socio-economic and land use reports for the four urban areas.
• Organizing city consultations, agreement on priority issues for the four urban areas and prepare reports.
• Prepare Master Plans for the four urban areas.
• Publish, adopt and disseminate the Master Plans.

Results:
The main results achieved so far are:

• Key staff trained in the use of rapid urban profiling techniques
• Socio-economic and land use reports achieved for the four urban areas
• Master Plans completed.