Agence française de développement (AFD) and GRET are continuing their work fostering promotion and support of citizen participation dynamics in the drinking water, sanitation, mobility and urban development sectors in Senegal, with the launch of two new projects: Diss’Eau and Dakar Urban Incubator (PUD).
The latter, generated by the Urban incubators programme facilitated by GRET, aims to support participative and inclusive urban development approaches, enabling users and inhabitants to better appropriate future collective transport infrastructures in the greater Dakar area. The project intends to foster greater consideration of uses, in particular soft mobility, by supporting innovative, participative urban micro-projects taking an action-research approach.
Also funded by AFD for four years, the Diss’Eau project (disso means dialogue in Wolof) aims to strengthen citizen participation in the development of public policies and local monitoring of water and sanitation services in Senegal. Generated in particular by the findings of the 2018 Contreauverses seminar, the project plans to test several innovative tools and methods, in particular digital, in order to stimulate citizen and user participation in public policies. It also intends to support the Water and sanitation civil society organisations platform in Senegal (POSCEAS) to strengthen its discussions and dialogues with public and private stakeholders in the sector. The project, which is also mobilising private stakeholders and the world of research, is taking place at a key time, just one year before the Dakar World Water Forum and at a time when several sectoral reforms are underway in Senegal.
The implementation of these two projects will enable GRET to strengthen its action in favour of inclusive citizen participation in the drinking water, sanitation and urban mobility sectors in Senegal.
