The Initiative for Housing & Development in Africa
a. Target:
To initiate a means of housing delivery that allows the unit cost per square metre of residential building to be accurately predicted and controlled by scientific means and yet gives a finished product that is technologically appropriate to Nigeria with near 100% locally available raw materials and reduces the current cost of production by 50%, i.e from the current well over $300/Sqm to just under $100.0/Sqm of built space. Two pilot schemes are to be built – one in the FCT and the other in any nearby state.
Performance:
As far back as 1987, studies have been done by a university undergraduate towards partial satisfaction of a professional degree programme. These studies on Settlements and African Housing design informed the basis of this initiative to ‘deliver’ a ‘model’ prototype community for Africa.
To conclude this above study, further academic research into the feasibility of sustainable housing systems in the sub-region were done at the Salford University department of civil engineering and building as partial fulfilment of a research Masters course for the award of the MRes postgraduate degree, during the academic year 2001- 2002. Further work into this subject has been undertaken at the doctoral level at Loughborough University Centre for Innovation in Construction Education [CICE] The research background work has all been pulled together and freely accessed by the IFHDA sponsors, in putting together a viable feasibility study for a property & housing development to be carried out that will pursue the establishment of 100% locally sourced dwelling units.
These dwelling units (d.u.’s) will be configured within the establishment of the proposed estates and communities, for palm or cashew produce and possibly including/extending to fish farms or market garden vegetables. £8.7m (eight point seven million pounds) is required to complete the Home Leone Destiny Village, in Freetown. £21,000,000 (twenty one million pounds sterling) is required for the Ghana project and £5,000,000 each, (five million pounds, sterling each) being the initial tranche of funding for the agro-allied farm community estates totalling 500 housing units, each with solar power and wells for water. A further £4,000,000 is required for the supported housing village project, in Sierra Leone.
b. Target: The 1st tranche projects for the Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria Projects.
Performance: Implementation time table here-in-below labelled, Schedule 2 is being proposed.
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| Short description | Start of activity | Completion date |
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| Appointment of managing agents IFHDA, pflp - UK) for the IFHDA | September 2021 | February 2022 |
2. | CARSHD “Research Centre in a Container” piloted in The Gambia. | May 2022 | December 2022
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3. | Share capital call up and domiciliation. | September 2022 | October 2022
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4. | [MILESTONE 1.] 1st Tranche of - externally funded seed capital release - The Destiny Village completion project,Freetown, Sierra Leone. | October 2022 | October 2022
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5. | Lead In time Project 01_2021 (The 125 bed Beach Resort Hotel and workers village project.) Hotel in Ghana, constructed from rammed earth to a Hilton Hotel (or similar ) 5-star rating standard | December 2022 | February 2023 |
6. | [ ROLLED UP MILESTONE 2.] First Annual General Meeting of The IFHDA | December 2022 | December 2022
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7. | Formalisation of land grant from respective family for No.2 River Supported Housing Village, in Sierra Leone. | November 2022 | December 2022 |
8. | Construction period (18 months) for the No.2 River Supported Housing Village. | January 2023 | July 2024 |
9. | [Rolled up MILESTONE 3] Construction period for the 125 bed 5-Star Beach Resort Hotel, in Ghana along with its rammed earth workers village. | March 2023 | July 2024 |
10. | [Rolled up MILESTONE 4] Construction period for the 500 unit Agro-Allied Farm Communities, in Anambra State, and Edo State, Nigeria. | December 2024 | September 2025 |
c. Target: A mobile assembly plant capable of fabricating 30,000 units of housing a year is to be assembled in each state of Nigeria. (Affordable housing “pilot” to be financed and delivered in Anambra and Edo States.)
Performance: The optimum technology has been resolved as the ‘Rammed Earth’ system of building with earth/mud. N7.5m (circa 125,000 Chinese Yuan – which will be the accounting unit of IFHDA electronic money) has been established as the benchmark unit cost to include the basic community facilities of a primary school, health centre and community centre. The assembly plants will provide local jobs for the owner occupiers and many others besides.
d. Target: To establish a web site for dissemination to all stakeholders and subscribers to the housing initiative, both individual and corporate of appropriate information. This news magazine will keep subscribers to the initiative abreast of current developments, trends news events within the housing and development front in the country. It will also provide a forum for the dissemination of ideas and discussion about on-going community development, alternate dispute resolution strategies and community engagement initiatives, piloted by the IFHDA. The web site ‘e magazine; will also be disseminated in print format, via the worldwide Internet.
Performance: A mechanism for facilitating publication of this web site has been set-up within the premises of IFHDA Freetown, Sierra Leone office.
e. Target: For subsequent years, we expect that the IFHDA will be able to organise at least 30,000 houses/per state/per year of Nigerian Unity villages every year, at a capital cost of N1,500,000,000 per state, annually. Same to be achieved at a 20% capacity though 90% capacity over the course of 3 years, starting in the FCT Abuja and Kaduna States.
Performance: A cash flow projection for the first year’s of operation, has been outlined and it indicates that the Federal Nigerian Government has not got the slightest clue about the amount of money that is involved in delivering on the ruling APC parties election manifesto with regard to promisesabout housing. It was all just hype. It is the expectation that eventually, with serious minded sincere leaders, (there is hope for 2023) through the primary mortgage institutions in Nigeria, the Federal Government will re-finance the third and the Target e. projects.