The initiative “Cities Without Slums in Eastern and Southern Africa1”, promoted by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT), seeks to contribute to the accomplishment of the Target 11 of the Objectives of the Millennium Declaration: “ to improve the life conditions of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020”; by working with the member states, with the objective of improving the lives and conditions of people living or working in informal settlements, in the selected cities of the sub-area. Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Lesotho are the first nine chosen countries for the pilot initiative.