Sessions on the Transition

SOU-82 | METROPOLISES AS A DRIVING FORCE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

19 May

19 May

9:00 to 12:30

Venue: Room 3

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United Cities and Local Governments of Africa

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PRESENTATION OF THE SESSION

FNAU/MTPA Metropolises are a driving force for national development. They have a specific role as they absorb a large area both urban and rural structured in several urban centralities. They contribute to networking different areas in a wider territory, also impulse the dynamism of regions and contribute to the development of intermediary cities and rural area that are placed in their living areas. Urban planning agencies lean on local actors to elaborate local policies and strategies based on a strong knowledge of local dynamics and a strong capacity of pluri-disciplinary expertise. The African network of the Metropolitan and Territorial Planning Agency global network support metropolis and regions to develop their capacities in local engineering, essential to support civil society and local decision makers to better manage their territories. Rationale of the session: why the session is organized, why now in the framework of the Africities Summit? This event, through several thematic, aims to highlight and to define recommendations on the part of the metropolis and urban engineering for the construction of a balanced relationship between urban center and greater territories. What are the main issues to be addressed and the debates surrounding these issues at local, national, continental and international levels (as appropriate)? Several themes and challenges will be addressed as planning big metropolises, metropolitan heritage, urban agencies, role of urban planners, metropolises and intermediary relationships, metropolises, and climate change.   Goals of the session The event aims to over cross the debate that opposes small and big cities, the urban and rural areas, in order to show interrelationships and co-profits that we can have from a territorial approach at the metropolitan scale. How will the session be meeting the aforementioned goals ? This event tackles big African challenges and international networks that focus on urban and territorial challenges to underline positive relationships between metropolises and intermediary cities.

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Summary

Speakers

  • Amine Idrissi Belkasmi

    Amine Idrissi Belkasmi

    director of MAJAL

  • Koffi Attahi

    Koffi Attahi

    Director General of the Urban Planning Agency of the Greater Abidjan

  • Luc Gnacadja

    Luc Gnacadja

    president of the GPS-Dev tink-tank, former Minister of Benin General delegate of Metropolis

  • Luc Setondji Atrokpo

    Luc Setondji Atrokpo

    President National Association of Municipalities of Benin (ANCB)

  • Mahamoudou Wadidie

    General Director, Regional Development Agency of Bamako

    Mahamoudou Wadidie

    General Director, Regional Development Agency of Bamako

    is General Director of the Bamako District Regional Development Agency. ADR, created in 2015, is in charge of planning, preparation, programming and implementation of local authority development operations as well as the management of local authority services and the mobilization of resources for the financing of regional and local development. For nearly 10 years, Mahamoudou WADIDIE has devoted his entire professional activity to the challenges of developing cities and municipalities in developing countries. Thanks to his wide experience in the management of major projects and programs, he is involved in all stages of the project cycle (identification, feasibility, support-advice, evaluation, training). He advises the national contracting authorities in structuring structuring projects. He leads trainings and seminars, assumes missions of support to project management. He also has expertise in the diagnosis of works with a perfect knowledge of building materials and a solid experience of building systems in local materials, active activist for the promotion and popularization of local materials. He is an accredited expert with courts and tribunals of Mali; Founding member and President of the Association BATISSEURS SANS FRONTIERE of Mali and Member of the National Evaluation Committee for experimental buildings in the Republic of Mali.

  • Robert Luzolanu

    Robert Luzolanu

    Director of Urban Development Unit of Kinshasa, Congo

  • Romain Crouzet

    Romain Crouzet

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