Sustainable housing and infrastructure finance expert, Oluwaseun Muraina, is advancing new possibilities for African cities.

Economic momentum continues to outpace the municipal frameworks needed to ensure equitable urban development.

Its response combines participatory mapping, infrastructure development, women-led governance, capacity building, social-enterprise financing and policy engagement.

The idea is simple but consequential: water infrastructure needs a financial and management system capable of keeping it working.

UN-Habitat increasingly treats housing, infrastructure and climate resilience as interconnected parts of urban development rather than separate agendas, for a good reason.

Muraina’s work starts with the reality that housing, infrastructure, climate, and finance are not separate conversations for the people living through them.