Decentralization: Ministry of housing launches World Bank-backed program to modernize Togolese municipalities

Economic governance
Tuesday, 18 January 2022 18:51
Decentralization: Ministry of housing launches World Bank-backed program to modernize Togolese municipalities

(Togo First) - Togolese authorities are working on a project to make municipalities, especially in the outskirts of Grand Lomé, more attractive and modern. The project, Local Urbanism Plan (PLU), was launched last Friday in Noépé, the chief town of the Avé 2 municipality. 

Backed by the World Bank and steered by the ministry of urban planning, housing, and land reform, the project specifically aims to help local communities better regulate the use of their lands, in addition to bolstering their housing stock to meet the growing demand. Land reserves will be mobilized to this end. 

"The launch of this Local Urbanism Plan (PLU) project reflects the paradigm shift that we usually adopt in the development of urban and spatial planning tools," said the minister of urban planning, Koffi Tsolenyanu, who presided the launch.

The PLU, the ministry believes, will ease the development of public investment projects, make the two pilot municipalities (Avé 2 and Zio 2) it will cover more attractive, but also improve the living standards of people concerned and people living in the Greater Lomé area. 

"Indeed, the goal of the initial urban development program was always to provide all towns with more than 5,000 inhabitants with a Master Plan for Urban Development and Planning (SDAU). But, in the era of full decentralization of our country, we need to change our approach, to cover all of our municipalities leveraging local urbanism plans,” Tsolenyanu added. 

The project’s launching ceremony was an opportunity to present expected results to actors of the urban planning and land sector, as well as to people who will benefit from it. 

In the long run, the PLU should expand to all 117 municipalities of Togo.

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