2023 Award "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"

On July 8, 2009, the Department of Yvelines and the Saint-Louis Region signed a framework agreement for decentralized cooperation for a period of 5 years to carry out actions limited to the Department of Podor. A central cooperation theme was then chosen: the management and recovery of all types of waste. 

Following the implementation in Senegal of Law III on decentralization adopted in December 2013, which entailed the abolition of the Regions and the creation of the Departments as local entities, the Departmental Council of Podor became the institutional partner of the Department of Yvelines. In June 2015, a framework cooperation agreement was signed between the two Departments for a period of five (05) years.

In the environment sector (a responsibility transferred to local authorities by the Senegalese government), the Department is responsible for local planning, while the Communes are in charge of waste management, the fight against unhealthiness and planning at the communal level. Therefore, the Department plays a role of harmonization of development policies and coordination of actions vis-à-vis the Communes. 

For this reason, the Department of Yvelines and the Department of Podor submitted to the French Development Agency (AFD) the project "Generalization and sustainability of household waste management systems in the Department of Podor" (GP-GOM), as a continuation of the actions undertaken within the framework of cooperation.

The implementation of the project has contributed to improving the living conditions of the local population, providing a regular waste collection service, involving the local population in waste management under the supervision of the municipalities and giving them a sense of responsibility, as well as creating jobs.

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