TITLE:
Financing Local Development Projects through Decentralized Cooperation in Yopougon (Cote d’Ivoire)
AUTHORS:
Abodou Athanase Adomon
KEYWORDS:
Decentralized Cooperation, Côte d’Ivoire, Local Development, Financing, Investments, Yopougon
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.10 No.3,
September
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: Between 2000 and 2011, the military-political and civil crises undermined
the implementation of various local development projects in C?te d’Ivoire.
After crises, funding difficulties became even more acute. Decentralized
communities, which have already been faced with shrinking budgets since 1980,
are struggling to meet the needs expressed by local people. Faced with such a
reality, decentralized cooperation would seem to be an effective and
appropriate approach. However, this approach remains unknown and unexplored by
the majority of elected officials in C?te d’Ivoire. The objective of the article
is to show that in the Abidjan District Municipality of Yopougon, decentralized cooperation has made it possible to finance
and implement development projects at the local level.