Projects

Lkuli Community Playground, attracts hundreds of people (young and old, men and women) from 12 parishes in Makindye Division in Kampala City. The playground is part of the numerous informal playgrounds in the greater Kampala Capital City area used by mostly low-income slum dwellers for recreation of many kinds, including active and non-active uses. The facility has a playground area, sports field, green space, paths, and a children’s play area.

This project achieved many important results including increased awareness about the importance of public spaces, increased park usage, increased trust among the community and KCCA, increased community engagement, and increased ownership by the community of their public space.

Lukuli playground is used as a case study for future community-led projects and engagements and provides the foundation for our evidence based advocacy campaign for public space policy improvement in Kampala city and other urban areas in Uganda.

Our program supported the development of the pilot NMT infrastructure, along the Namirembe Road (Bakuli Junction) to Luwum Street (Entebbe Road) which accommodates cyclists and pedestrians, with no or restricted vehicular access permitted. Our focus is to work with government and civil society organizations engaged in transportation, to advocate for safe, accessible and inclusive transportation. We do pilot place making activities in order to increase awareness among the public about the importance of place making as a public space, and walking and cycling.

In corroboration with partners APS participates in place making and open street campaigns to celebrate car free days as well sensitize the public on the benefits of walking and cycling, open green spaces among others.

Namuwongo 8th Street Open Space is about one kilometer from the city center and is owned by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). Factories and offices surround the space and it is close to Kibuli, which is an old neighborhood inhabited mostly by low-income residents. The open space is in a prime location where hundreds of people who cannot afford public transport start to walk back to their homes after work. It also provides recreation space for parents and their children from the nearby crowded poor neighborhoods to play and talk. In addition, the space is particularly important to the youth who cherish socialization. The space provides a venue where they meet for recreation of all sorts. The redevelopment exercises involved APS® collaboration with KCCA, partnering with local contractors and the adoption of community engagement processes that ensure a people-centered approach to the design of the space. Through this effort, APS® was able to.

• Construct a foot path (walkway)

• Erect concrete seats (benches)

• Green the area through replanting of grass, flowers and shrubs.

• Beautified area through wall painting.

The 8th Street Min-park project achieved among others the organized use of the open green.

space. Because it is majorly a transit space, provision was made for people to walk freely in all directions, a number of seats were installed, creating more room for relaxation and recreation. The project further improved the beautification drive in Kampala.

The Kasubi Market improvement project was implemented as an intervention which would improve the working environment for the vendors and the shopping experience among customers. In total 24 vendors registered to have their stalls improved with new wooden worktops, that would give them better storage space, organization, uniformity, hygiene and easy accessibility for the shoppers among others.

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