City accountability
Every city is judged on the same thing: is money actually moving into fixing and building? Filter by country, sector or stage to see who is delivering and who is stalling.
16 countries
33% of the pipeline
Bids close within 10 days
48 projects across 27 cities match your filters
Leaderboard
Ranked from live tenders and works packages. Values are converted to USD so cities in different currencies can be compared fairly.
Water & sanitation
$853m across 12 tenders
Transport
$686m across 7 tenders
Roads
$490m across 8 tenders
Energy & lighting
$467m across 10 tenders
Housing
$327m across 4 tenders
Waste
$195m across 7 tenders
| # | City | Investment | Tenders | Breaking ground | Sector mix |
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| 1 | Dar es Salaam Tanzania | $407m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 2 | Lagos Nigeria | $274m | 3 | 1/ 3 |
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| 3 | Luanda Angola | $240m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 4 | Gaborone Botswana | $232m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 5 | Maputo Mozambique | $225m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 6 | Addis Ababa Ethiopia | $190m | 2 | 0/ 2 |
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| 7 | Lusaka Zambia | $183m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 8 | Abuja Nigeria | $155m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 9 | Kigali Rwanda | $129m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 10 | Dakar Senegal | $121m | 1 | 1/ 1 |
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| 11 | Nairobi Kenya | $109m | 3 | 2/ 3 |
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| 12 | Cape Town South Africa | $101m | 4 | 1/ 4 |
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| 13 | Windhoek Namibia | $100m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 14 | Accra Ghana | $96m | 2 | 0/ 2 |
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| 15 | Harare Zimbabwe | $86m | 2 | 0/ 2 |
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| 16 | Johannesburg South Africa | $82m | 4 | 1/ 4 |
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| 17 | Mombasa Kenya | $72m | 2 | 1/ 2 |
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| 18 | Polokwane South Africa | $61m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 19 | Bloemfontein South Africa | $43m | 1 | 1/ 1 |
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| 20 | Bulawayo Zimbabwe | $33m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 21 | Kumasi Ghana | $20m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 22 | Kampala Uganda | $17m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 23 | Nakuru Kenya | $15m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 24 | Port Elizabeth South Africa | $13m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 25 | Durban South Africa | $5m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 26 | Maseru Lesotho | $5m | 1 | 0/ 1 |
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| 27 | Pretoria South Africa | $4m | 1 | 1/ 1 |
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Behind the numbers
Each city's score is built from real works packages — the buyer, the value and the stage it has reached.
Pothole rehabilitation and full resurfacing on routes with the highest resident report volumes over the last two quarters.
Replaces the ageing fleet behind repeated late dustbin collection complaints in Umbilo, Berea and Glenwood.
Replaces 18 km of failing mains responsible for the burst-pipe cluster reported across Eastlands.
Solar-assisted LED replacement programme targeting dark corridors flagged by residents after dusk.
New channels and grid cleaning contracts for areas with recurring blocked-drain and flooding reports.
Nine new stations and pedestrian crossings along the Ikorodu corridor, with signal upgrades at four junctions.
Method
Capital committed
Every live tender value is converted to USD and summed per city, so a big pipeline in local currency does not distort the ranking.
Breaking ground
Awarded and in-construction packages count as delivery. Cities with plenty out to market but nothing on site rank lower.
Sector mix
A city investing across roads, water, waste and energy scores as a broader fixer than one betting on a single mega-project.
Resident pressure
Report volumes from residents flag which corridors need work — the pipeline is checked against those hotspots.
Momentum bar
Each city is shown relative to the leader, so you can see the gap between the top performer and the rest.
Refresh cadence
Tender notices, awards and site progress are reviewed continuously, with news monitoring filling the gaps.
