Fostering Africa's Urban Future: Innovation, Sustainability, and Unity
Cairo International Convention Center
December 1-5, 2025
About The Summit
The Africities Summit is the flagship pan-African event of United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLGA Africa), held every three years in one of Africa's five regions.
Urban Development
Local Governance
Sustainable Development Goals
Climate Change Action
Regional Integration
The summit focuses on strengthening Sub-national and local government's contribution to Following Agendas :
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Bringing together over 10,000 participants from across Africa and the world for transformative urban development.
Urban Development
Local Governance
Sustainable Development Goals
Climate Change Action
Regional Integration
The summit focuses on strengthening Sub-national and local government's contribution to Following Agendas :
Summit Routes
Youth leadership, especially women, is key. Digital tools improve cities. Security needs addressing discrimination and crime. Cooperation between cities promotes peace and economic growth.
Implementing inclusive economic growth strategies within environmental safeguards, creating resilient settlements and regenerative ecosystems.
Focusing on urban development in a digitizing world, attracting talent, clustering businesses, and providing skills for a green, digital economy.
Addressing urban poverty and inequality through cultural practices and institutions, fostering social cohesion, innovation, and peace.
Exhibition Space
Experience Africa's premier showcase of urban innovation and sustainable solutions, featuring interactive sessions and collaborative spaces for local development.
Innovative approaches for adapting African cities to environmental challenges and building resilient communities.
Smart solutions for sustainable urban development and affordable housing initiatives.
Positive real world solutions
Digital tool boxes and practical solutions
Connect and collaborate
Join Africa's key decision-makers in shaping the future of local governance during the final two days of Africities 10 Summit.
High-level assembly of African Ministers discussing urban development and local governance.
Gathering of sub-national representatives to discuss regional development strategies.
International cooperation meeting focusing on sustainable urban development funding.
Bringing together Ministers, Subnational and Local Leaders, and Financial & Development Partners for collaborative urban development solutions.
Key governance assemblies shaping Africa's local development agenda
General Assembly of Local Governments
Network of Local Elected Women
Young Elected Local Officials
Forum of African Regional Governments
Our Partners
Official Sponsors
"The Africites Summit is a must for all those who believe, as we do, that the territorial level is the relevant level at which sustainable development in Africa is proven and tested. It's a unique platform for dialogue and meetings with stakeholders in territorial governance, to discuss how to contribute concretely to the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals Agenda and the African Union's Agenda 2063."
"For me, the Africities Summit is the place to be for any leader or elected official looking for solutions to develop their community. I can testify to this, as hosting the Africities Summit in Kisumu in April 2022 has literally changed the course of development in Kisumu County and the Lake Victoria Region Hub for the better. Kisumu is now on the map as sub-supplier governments the very first intermediary city to have hosted the Africities Summit."
"For the Women Local Elected Officials of Africa, the Africities Summit offers an opportunity to demonstrate the importance of women's leadership in the management of subnational and local governments, and to take greater account of women's concerns and perspectives in the management of our cities, confronting them with those of other players, with the goal of developing inclusive and fairer cities. "
"Like most African countries, our country Rwanda, would like to root its development first and foremost at territorial level. That's why we're focusing on localizing national sectoral policies, to give them greater coherence in their implementation at territorial level. This echoes the international call to localize the sustainable development goals promoted by the United Nations Agenda 2030. RALGA was one of the very first national associations of local authorities to have prepared a voluntary subnational voluntary review (VSR) of the implementation of Agenda 2030."
"The Africites summit is the matrix that gave life to the African local government movement. This is why the leaders and elected representatives of local authorities are so attached to it. Over the years, the Africites Summit, which was originally conceived as a way of introducing local and regional authorities to the institutional landscape of the African continent, has gradually become the preferred meeting place for central government authorities, sub-national and local government decision-makers, operators from the world of finance and the private sector, and organizations from civil society, professional circles, academia and philanthropy.
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