Transcript Climate change and Urban Vulnerability in Africa

Climate change and Urban
Vulnerability in Africa
District council as important stakeholders
in adaptation in Saint-Louis:
Possibilities and challenges
Presented by Souleymane GUEYE
PhD
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Introduction
• The exacerbation of risks related to climate change makes
the city of St. Louis more vulnerable.
• Flooding, erosion and salinization are probably the major
risks that threaten repeatedly the old city.
• Despite the multiplicity of actors in the field and the
numerous initiatives, the problem remains faced with a
lack of coordination of actions.
• The organization of community actors seems to be a
fundamental deal that the municipality intends to rely for a
more effective involvement of people in the management
of climate risks
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Context of emergence of district councils
in Saint-Louis
• In the context of decentralization, three local authorities
were created:
– The region, the town and the rural community
• The neighborhood (district) is absent in the process
– Lack of accountability of local stakholders;
– Insufficient support neighborhood problems;
– Lack of social legitimacy of representative district with populations
• Proliferation of formal and informal structures in all sectors
• Need for coordinated action at the local level by a
federative structure, apolitical and non-denominational =
district council
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process of implementation of district
council
Implementation of district council
Stage 1 :
mounting of the initiative committee
ADC: return of ressources persons in the district
Return of young people to execute
surveys :
Information and awareness
Exploratory Focus group
Elaboration of PDQ
Stage 1
: Installation of district council
Diagnosis, Restitutions/validations
Stage 2: development priority action plan
Parteners Forum
Stage 1: Presentation of the PDQ to all
stakholders
Presence of sponsors and parteners for the
developement
stage 2: Steady evaluation and coordination with projects
across the city
inventory: CBO listing,
problèms, division of the disctrict
in 5 zones
Survey diagnostics and census
Problems listing
Problèms analysis in terms of causes and consequences
Stage 2:
District council implementation
Information and awareness
Exploratory Focus group
inventory
Officialization of district council
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PDQ implementation
problèms hierarchical organization among priority order
in the district
transformation of problèms in operational goals
, in action and project idea
détermination of stratégical orientation of development
Niang, 2007, modified
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The district council: composition and
structuration
• Composition
– Sporting and Cultural Associations (ASC),
– Promotion female group (‘’mbotaay’’ and
youth girls organization (OJF),
– Associations theme :
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The disabled committee,
Health committee,
Associations of scholar parents,
Religious associations
Cell-school environment,
Etc.
– GIE community base
– Neighborhood development associations
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The district council: composition and
structuration
Président
Vice président
Treasurer
Secretary- general
Treasurer associate
Secretary-general
associate
Président of
commissions
Commission 1
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Commission 2
Commission 3
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Commission 4
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Organization et Functioning
• The Neighborhood Council holds various meetings in
different time periods, namely:
– Monthly: Board Meeting;
– Every 3 months: Steering Committee Meeting, it is the condition
grant by the City of St. Louis to give them 114 € / year;
– Every 6 months: General Assembly information also involving
representatives of various associations;
– Every 2 years: General Assembly renewal during which the
officers are elected democratically under the supervision of the
ADC ..
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Different levels of urban governance in St. Louis
Place of district council
régional
Niveau déconcentré
Niveau communautaire
Gouverneur
Comité Régional
de développement
Préfet
Niveau municipal
Niveau décentralisé
Services techniques
Maire
Services techn
municip
Agence de développement
communale
Conseil Municipal
Délégué
Président Conseil
Niveau quartier
Conseil de quartiers
Association sportives et culturelles
Comité,
commission
Organisation communautaire de
base
Source, COLY A., NDOUR M., GUEYE S., under press
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District councils as important stakholders
in adaptation in Saint-Louis
• The district council’s role is:
– "Create and / or support initiatives developed self-promotion in the
district in connection with the municipal authorities residing in the
district (town councilors and delegates District);
– Contribute to the realization of projects and actions identified in the
Development Plan Area (PDQ). "
– Play the role of intermediation as a privileged interlocutor for
external partners.
– It acts as a local government in support of neighborhood problems
and in resolving internal conflicts
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District councils as important stakholders
in adaptation in Saint-Louis
• The district council is:
– an excellent means of promoting projects to the people;
– A gateway mandatory for the success of any project to be
implemented in the district,
– A shortcut in the implementation of projects through its ability to
rapidly target populations and vulnerable areas;
– An excellent tool for mobilizing people in the occurrence of risk
– A partner of the municipality for governance of climate risks.
– A significant opportunity in the involvement of local actors (district
level) in decision making on issues concerning them.
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Some achievements of district council
the example of Goxu Mbacc district
• The district council of Goxu Mbacc has to its credit several
achievements:
• the construction of a highway by the state, which was donated
to the town;
• conducting survey on fertility, which revealed a number of 400
births per year;
• achieving censuses residents in the district in 2000 and 2012;
• organizing awareness sessions on a variety of topics;
• the organization of training sessions for teachers on climate
change so that they can relay information to students;
• design projects on the risks of climate change;
• The organization of young people in an association.
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Some problems related to local governance
• Institutional two headed: delegate district – district council
president;
• Lack of legality of the district council;
• Lack of financial resources to implement projects identified
in the district development plan (PDQ);
• Lack of updating PDQ which become obsolete over time
against rapidly changing risk.
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Conclusion
• Urban governance in the city of St. Louis has experienced
notable changes;
• The extension of decentralization to the local level through
the creation of neighborhood councils is a major
opportunity in the management of climate risks;
• To play their role, they must be institutional strengthening
and coaching largest in terms of financial resources;
• Social legitimacy makes it an important tool in the local
governance of climate risks.
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Thank you for your attention
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