The goals of the structure plans are towards achieving environmental sustainability in the context of achieving State and Local Economic Development Strategies, Millennium Development Goals and Habitat Agenda, orderly and healthy development, the contributions of cities to sustained economic growth, poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods, good governance and gender empowerment. This Report, which is the structure plan for Onitsha, is a tangible outcome of this cooperative effort. For the next 20 years, the Structure Plan envisions that Onitsha will be planned and developed as ‘the foremost commercial nerve center of Anambra State, the nation and the West African Sub-region for achieving faster socio-economic growth and sustainable human settlements development and management’.