On 5-7 December, FSDO/ UN DESA, in collaboration with UNCDF and UNOPS, implemented a workshop training on designing an enabling policy environment for infrastructure asset management in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The workshop included highly interactive and peer-learning exercises in which participants identified opportunities and concrete actions for enhancing the resilience, sustainability, and inclusiveness of their infrastructure asset management practices, including through building compatible asset management information systems. The 21 officials from central ministries, departments, and public agencies from Zanzibar participating in the training practices also provided inputs to key policy updates to Zanzibar’s Asset Management Policy to ensure its compliance with relevant global and national asset management’s standards and policy objectives. Next steps of the IAM programme in Zanzibar include UN expert technical assistance to conduct IAM gap assessments, on-site training on Asset Management Action Plans (AMAPs), and further support to building a comprehensive national asset management information system.
