Jinja

Jinja’s 2022–2032 Integrated Physical Development Plan provides the city with a framework for directing growth, land use and infrastructure as it assumes a larger role in Uganda’s urban system. National planning identifies Jinja as a strategic industrial city, making the coordination of employment areas, housing, transport and public services particularly important.

The city’s own planning department also identifies unplanned growth, fragmented transport, environmental pressures and inadequate market, water and housing infrastructure as risks to orderly development. Uganda’s new urban infrastructure programme adds a delivery mechanism for climate-smart roads, drainage, lighting and public facilities. Together, these measures place Jinja’s current development on two linked tracks: a long-term spatial plan and the infrastructure investment needed to make that plan operational.