Urbanization

Population growth

• High population densities
• Increased demand for infrastructure and service delivery
• Increase in informal settlements
• Inner City Decay

• Increase in levels of pollution
• Increase in environmental health related diseases
• Increase in inadequate infrastructure
• Increase in housing backlog
• Depletion of natural resources
• Impact on climate change
• Inner City Decay

• Member of the World Alliance of Cities against poverty
• Action plans for reduce poverty
• Population policy
• Linking environmental programmes to job creation

• Community empowerment and involvement towards improve neighbourhood conditions
• Demonstrations on improve housing and environmental conditions

• Increase in the demand for service delivery and infrastructure.
• Increase in the demand for housing

• Unsafe housing
• High rates of environmental health related diseases.

• Delivery of subsidized service sites close to work
• Consolidated municipal infrastructure for internal bulk and water provision
• Promote the payment of services

• Education of safe home environment
• Healthy homes programmes based on Healthy Cities programme
• Demonstrations on basic safe home environments

• Education
• Loss of low skilled employment

• Increase in crime rates
• Increase in environmental health related disease
• Inadequate basic needs
• Low life expectancy

• Job creation policies
• Local economic strategies
• Access to training to enhance job opportunities

• Environmental education that focus on job creation.
• Local Economic Development.

• Illiteracy
• Low wages for women
• Poor utilisation of health services

• Increase in fertility
• Increase in unemployment
• Inadequate utilisation of health services

• Education policies and empowerment strategies
• National qualification framework.

• Literacy classes
• Environmental education
• Environmental health education