🇬🇭 Groupe Huit (Stephane Milhaud, Anastasia Tikhmyanova) and Keran Afrique de l'Ouest (Jaurès DJAMADJIBAYE) are back in #Ghana to continue working on the #FeasibilityStudy to Prepare the Upgrading Urban Resilience Project in Tamale Metropolitan Area, Ghana supported by the Agence Française de Développement.
👥 This time, we invited the citizen panel from the two project focus areas, Lamakara and Tutingli, to co-construct the projects together with our team. The projects include four main components: Green Corridors (street network), Drainage, Pocket Gardens, and Bilpela Dam. During the two #codesign workshops that took place last week, the citizen panel worked together to decide on the layout for streets and public spaces and propose the equipment for their development.
📌 The discussion about the layout followed the main principles that we have agreed on together:
🏘️ Minimising #resettlement: the layout is adapted to the existing urban fabric to the greatest extent possible.
🚲 #Equitable distribution: proposing a street and public spaces’ network that will benefit all community members.
🏃🏾♂️ Building on existing practices: using the spaces and #mobility axes that are already familiar to and used by the community.
✍️ As a result, the residents proposed several types of roads (two-way, one-way, active mobility, pedestrian) and public spaces (children playground, gathering/resting place, festivity venue, urban agriculture plots). A separate discussion was dedicated to the equipment to install on these places. The residents of Lamakara and Tutingli were highly interested in having ☀️ sun shelters and benches installed all around their communities so that everyone had access to a resting place during hot hours. As for the youth and children, the most requested equipment was a ⚽️ football pitch!
⛹🏾 The co-design will be continued in-depth by the Urban Fabric Initiative (UFI) mission (Naïk Lashermes, Olivier Bedu). The UFI will select one or several identifies spots and propose a temporary project to test the uses and the layout. The UFI project will also ensure the engagement of the residents during the feasibility study and implementation of the initiatives proposed under the current project. An exciting innovative approach pioneered by the Agence Française de Développement that allows the residents to build their communities the way they really want them to be! 🙌
Agence Française de Développement Groupe Huit Keran Afrique de l'Ouest GRET Cabanon Vertical Célina Carrier Clementine Dardy Lawrence Martey Commodore Stephane Milhaud Loeiz THETIOT Léa GILLOT Anastasia Tikhmyanova Jaurès DJAMADJIBAYE Naïk Lashermes Olivier Bedu Fidèle Gautier AHOUNAN Daniel Kabe Joshua Etse Wemegah Hermann KEMEKONG