African Cities Facing the Urban Mobility Crisis : The Challenge of National Mobility Policies in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Togo Confronted with the Proliferation of Motorized Two-Wheelers - Transnational Report
Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin are experiencing rapid urban growth, supported by strong demographic growth. Between 2018 and 2030, the cities in these four countries are expected to have an extra 17 million inhabitants. By 2030, the populations...
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Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099756201312219995/P153311034754e09f091660804daa67c6f8 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37084 |
| Summary: | Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin
are experiencing rapid urban growth, supported by strong
demographic growth. Between 2018 and 2030, the cities in
these four countries are expected to have an extra 17
million inhabitants. By 2030, the populations of Ouagadougou
and Bamako are expected to double: these two capitals will
reach 5.4 and 4.6 million inhabitants, respectively. Lomé
and Cotonou are forecast, with lower growth rates, to reach
roughly 3 million inhabitants. These metropolitan areas will
need to restructure to meet the challenges inherent to their
size. However, their growth-related challenges should not
overshadow those of the other, so called secondary cities.
Although urban migration and growth tend to center on the
capitals, the secondary cities, which are much smaller, will
by 2030 see increases in population exceeding the capacity
of their infrastructure systems. An extra 10 million
inhabitants will move to urban areas that often lack
infrastructure and basic urban services. This report focuses
on a cross analysis of the work conducted simultaneously in
2019 in the four West African countries. The methodology
adopted is described below. In each of the countries, under
the authority of the ministries in charge of urban mobility,
the Consultant produced a diagnostic report and organized a
national mobility forum involving all public and private
institutional players (at central and local level), civil
society and technical and financial partners. Conducted
under the supervision of the pertinent ministries and local
authorities, these national workshops provided the
opportunity to discuss the experts’ recommendations in more
depth and to define the elements of reform required to
enable implementation of a sustainable urban mobility
policy. This exercise made it possible to propose, for each
country, a draft urban mobility policy letter, a national
strategy document in line with the EASI concept
(Enable-Avoid-Shift-Improve), and a priority action plan for
implementation. A sub-regional workshop was organized in
Bamako on 6 and 7 February 2020 with a view to promoting the
sharing of experience and enabling a comparative analysis of
the methods and results. It was attended by delegations from
the four countries covered by this SSATP support program,
creating an opportunity to define a shared vision of urban
mobility, both for the capital cities and for the secondary
cities, and to identify areas of transnational cooperation.
This report is based on the work conducted in the four
countries and offers a common interpretation of the
situation in the four countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
and Togo), supported by an analysis of the specific local
contexts and national situations. |
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