[{"bbox": [96, 153, 1163, 337], "category": "Text", "text": "towards Uganda and the northern corridor. Yet, it faces challenges like congestion and flooding, disrupting the transportation network. Addressing these issues at Nyabugogo is crucial to boost Kigali's efficiency, resilience, and inclusivity, making it a strategic choice for this action. This action aims to enhance the inclusivity and resilience of Rwandan cities, particularly focusing on Kigali. It will achieve this by facilitating the smoother movement of women, men, girls and boys in their diversity and goods within Kigali, improving overall connectivity, and relieving congestion in the capital city of Kigali. Through these efforts, the action seeks to create more accessible, sustainable, and efficient urban environments in Rwanda."}, {"bbox": [96, 368, 1163, 423], "category": "Text", "text": "The Overall Objective (Impact) of this action is to make Rwandan cities more inclusive, competitive, climate change resilient and with healthier air quality."}, {"bbox": [96, 450, 1163, 530], "category": "Text", "text": "The Specific Objective (Outcome) of this action is to improve the safe, accessible and climate resilient mobility of women, men, girls and boys in their diversity and goods within Kigali and with the rest of Rwanda and neighboring countries. It will do so by focusing on the following Outputs:"}, {"bbox": [134, 559, 1152, 586], "category": "List-item", "text": "1 Improved climate resilient infrastructures and facilities at the Nyabugogo multi-modal transit terminal."}, {"bbox": [134, 598, 860, 625], "category": "List-item", "text": "2 Improved non-motorised transport (NMT) infrastructures and facilities."}, {"bbox": [134, 637, 490, 664], "category": "List-item", "text": "3 Improved e-mobility facilities."}, {"bbox": [134, 676, 709, 703], "category": "List-item", "text": "4 Upgraded Transport and Traffic Management Systems"}, {"bbox": [134, 715, 1163, 769], "category": "List-item", "text": "5 Enhanced institutional capacity in MININFRA and the City of Kigali (CoK), including use of digital data (e.g.GPS.)."}, {"bbox": [96, 798, 1163, 931], "category": "Text", "text": "In the Joint Communication \"Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa¹\", regional and continental economic integration have been identified as a key element of the partnership for sustainable growth and jobs, especially in the context of the ongoing Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) process. Economic benefits can be wider and the efficiency of the transport and trade systems can be increased by enhancing the functionality of corridors covering different countries and regions."}, {"bbox": [96, 959, 1163, 1039], "category": "Text", "text": "The action contributes to the roll out of the Global Gateway strategy², and puts a particular emphasis on improving access to the Mombasa-Kisangani corridor (strategic corridor 8) through the Gatuna (Rwanda) / Katuna (Uganda) border, thus contributing to the EU-Africa: Global Gateway Investment Package on Strategic Corridors."}, {"bbox": [96, 1069, 1163, 1149], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is also aligned with the external dimension of the EU Green Deal and will contribute to SDG 11 (make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable), SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure) and SDG 13 (Climate action)"}, {"bbox": [96, 1177, 1163, 1230], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will also serve as the third building block of the national Team Europe Initiative (TEI) on \"Rwandan cities fit for the digital age.\""}, {"bbox": [85, 1259, 322, 1291], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 2 RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [85, 1325, 234, 1351], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [96, 1371, 1163, 1425], "category": "Text", "text": "The economic and population growth in Rwanda is stimulating rapid urbanisation and rising incomes that drive rapid motorization and increasing mobility needs, especially in Rwandan urban areas."}, {"bbox": [96, 1452, 1163, 1507], "category": "Text", "text": "The National Strategy for Transformation (NST-1) (2017-2024), as the high-level planning policy to achieve long-term goals, clearly defined the pivotal role of transport infrastructure development in delivering on the country's long-"}, {"bbox": [85, 1549, 1143, 1596], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹ JOIN/2020/4 final, Joint communication to the European Parliament and the Council - Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa"}, {"bbox": [85, 1597, 1143, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "² JOIN(2021)30 final, Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank - The Global Gateway"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 24"}]