Lusaka

Lusaka’s rapid urbanisation has expanded the capital across a wide metropolitan area, increasing pressure on roads, water, sanitation, housing and land administration. Informal and poorly serviced settlements make infrastructure delivery more difficult, while regional transport corridors add another scale of movement to the city’s daily network.

The Lusaka Integrated Development Plan 2024–2034 and the Greater Lusaka Regional Plan 2025–2045 are intended to guide this growth through coordinated investment in roads, utilities, housing and land management. Their significance lies in treating the capital as a regional system rather than a collection of separate projects. For Lusaka, the central task is to connect new development to infrastructure early enough that metropolitan expansion does not deepen congestion, service deficits and the cost of retrofitting basic networks.