Partners
Ministry of Housing and Urbanization
Ministry of Twons affaires
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)
Background and objectives
Following the Habitat II conference,
the Government requested the support from UNDP and Habitat to assist the
City Authorities in elaborating a city development strategy to combat poverty
in low-income settlements.
A project proposal was prepared on
two thematics: City Development Strategy through consultation and
participatory process, and the Safer Cities component.
The project focus on complementary
and inter-related activities, namely a city development strategy formulated
through a city consultation and participatory process, and an upgrading
program of some existing informal settlements, respectively in Limbe, Bertoua,
Yaoundé 6.
In addition, the Safer Cities component
aims at the development of a local appraisal of the crime situation in
the city of Yaoundé, the establishment of a local crime prevention
coalition and the development of initial lines of a crime prevention strategy.
Highlights and Challenges:
Twelve consultants were recruited,
introduced to the local authorities and trained on Safer Cities and City
Consultation methodologies in April 2001.
A mission was carried out in June
2001 in order to finalize assessments on urban poverty undertaken in Limbe,
Bertoua, Yaoundé 6 and to prepare the city consultations which are
planned to be held in September 2001.
The activities with regard to the Safer
Cities component are carried out by a local team and have started in May
2001. The appraisal is ongoing and is being conducted through collection
of Police data, interviews with resource persons, collection of data among
the population through questionnaire and the development of a profile of
the delinquents in the city. Its findings will be discussed at a city seminar
in October 2001. The objective is to achieve a collective understanding
of crime in the city, identify the present responses by the justice system,
the other authorities and the civil society and to reach a consensus on
priorities for preventive interventions involving all local and governmental
actors. These related activities were officially launched in July 2001.
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