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Réseau d'Échanges Stratégiques pour une Afrique Urbaine Durable

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Crime Prevention Development Extreme poverty Governance Habitat Least Developed Countries Safety Social Development Sustainable Development Water Public Administration: Governance and Public Administration Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Sustainable Development: Capacity-building Indicators Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making Partnerships Poverty Sustainable development for Africa NEPAD: Crosscutting issues (Gender and Capacity Development) Human Development Regional Integration and Infrastructure
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Côte D'Ivoire Cameroon Burkina Faso Senegal
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Mission: Urban safety and security – Transforming Academic Knowledge to Action UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL and UN HABITAT signed in 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). RESAUD NETWORK was established in 2014 at School of Urban Planning of University of Montreal (Canada) to systematise local level prevention and urban policies (in land tenures, service access and environmental securities, and in public safety) for cities of French speaking Africa. RESAUD NETWORK joins forces of the universities and cities of French speaking Africa to build a network of knowledge to answer critical urban policy questions in the fight against insecure and unsafe urban conditions. RESAUD NETWORK is a platform to learn from each other and exchange tools, training, knowledge, as well as to promote approaches and to act, which do not rely on outside assistance. The creation of the RESAUD NETWORK project is aimed at reinforcing the capacity of four cities in French speaking Africa (Abidjan, Dakar, Ouagadougou and Yaoundé), to apply a governance model for a sustainable city, i.e. safer and inclusive city. It promotes the advocacy work and priorities of the World Urban Campaign initiated by UN-Habitat championed by a team of urban researchers and project managers in the University of Montreal (École d’Urbanisme and École de Criminologie) and Campus Montréal (École Polytechnique) (Canada). In association with urban experts/practitioners from universities both in the North and South, it envisions a menu of activities for the development and operationalization in conjunction with all the actors/agents of change on governance in cities in French speaking Africa. The state of progress of these activities will be presented and contribute to the Habitat III in 2016. RESAUD NETWORK provides an opportunity for dialogue between representatives of cities and universities in the four African cities on projects that are being implemented or should be implemented by the respective local governments, allowing them to learn from each others experiences on preventing crime and violence, insecurity in land tenures, environmental risks and lack of urban services. RESAUD NETWORK in the form of ‘city labs’ and ‘centres of excellence’ local governments and universities support teams enhance their on-going safer and inclusive cities project activities leveraging on local resources as well as partnerships. Each ‘city Lab’ and “centre of excellence’ work on one of the four challenges: 1) urban land tenure security; 2) urban public safety; 3) services access and mobility; 4) environmental risks. RESAUD NETWORK develops partnership arrangements between the local government and local university in the four cities, to establish and coordinate groups linking knowledge and practice comprising of key government, research and civil society actors. These partnerships will be promoted as ‘centres of excellence on safer and inclusive cities’, with the local working groups acting as ‘city labs’ providing hubs for knowledge exchange, learning, innovations and facilitating solutions. The end result will be to establish a “Municipal Institute of Learning’ within the respective local governments Activities: - Implementation of local working groups (city labs) in the four cities: partnership arrangements between the local government and the local university - Implementation of specific pilot interventions within policy plans in each city - Reinforcement of academic formation in theoretical knowledge and good practice - Maximisation of local knowledge by sharing with others cities through RESAUD NETWORK - Design and implementation of local and international advocacy plans for policy dissemination in the context of the Wold Urban Campaign – security and safety cluster, resilience cluster, city planning cluster and inclusive city cluster
Year established:	2014
Year of registration:	2014
Organizational structure:	MINISTÈRE DES RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES DU QUÉBEC (CANADA) UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL (CANADA) ONU HABITAT UNIVERSITÉ DE OUAGADOUGOU (BURKINA FASO) UNIVERSITÉ YAOUNDÉ 1 (CAMEROUN) UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT-BOIGNY (COTE D’IVOIRE) UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP (SÉNÉGAL) Direction Comity Education Authority of University of Montreal President of University of Ouagadougou Education authority of University Yaoundé 1 Education authority of University Félix Houphouët-Boigny Education authority of University Cheikh Anta Diop Dean of ‘Faculté de l’aménagement’ of University of Montreal President of ‘Conseil des Collectivités Territoriales’ de l’UEMOA Director of Programme Division United Nations Human Settlements Programme Director of RESAUD NETWORK Coordination Comity Director of RESAUD NETWORK Director Programme Division United Nations Human Settlements Programme Leader, Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit Urban Planning and Design Branch Director of RESAUD NETWORK BURKINA FASO Directors of RESAUD NETWORK CAMEROUN Directors of RESAUD NETWORK COTE D’IVOIRE Director of RESAUD NETWORK SENEGAL Professor and Director of “Centre International de Criminologie Comparée’ (CICC) University of Montréal Professor and Director of ‘Centre Risque et Performance’ (CR&P) École Polytechnique, Campus Montréal Professor and Canadian Representative in Task Force ‘Renforcement des capacités’ of IPBES (UN led process) Professor and Director of Project Management for the built Environment (MGPA) Université de Montréal Consultative Experts Representative of Metropolitan Community of Montréal (CMM) - Canada Co-director of ‘Institut de la Francophonie pour le Développement Durable’ (IFDD - OIF) - Canada Director of International centre for the Prevention of Crime (CIPC) - Canada Director of ‘Agence d’Assistance à la Sécurité de Proximité’ (AASP) Ministry of the Interior - Senegal Director of Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FMC) – Canada Director of ‘Centre de Recherche en Urbanisme’ (CRU) – France Co-director of ‘International Association of Technical Experts and Researchers’ (AITEC) - France
Number and type of members:	Membres de la direction : François Albert AMICHIA Maire de la Commune de Treichville (Abidjan). Président Conseil des Collectivités Territoriales de l’espace UEMOA (Cote d’Ivoire) Alioune BADIANE Directeur du Bureau des Projets et Programmes, ONU‐Habitat, Nairobi (Kenya) Guy LEFEBVRE Vice-recteur des relations Internationales de l’Université de Montréal (Canada) Paul LEWIS Doyen de la Faculté de l’aménagement Université de Montréal (Canada) Michel Max RAYNAUD Professeur Institut d’Urbanisme et en Montage et Gestion de Projets d’Aménagement (MGPA) à l’Université de Montréal, Directeur de l’Observatoire Ivanhoé Cambridge du Développement urbain et immobilier – Directeur de RESAUD (Canada) Thomas Thamos TATIETSE Professeur et Directeur adjoint de l’École Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique Campus Yaoundé 1 (Cameroun) Membres actifs RESAUD : Joseph COMBY Directeur d’étude au Centre de Recherche en Urbanisme (CRU), Fondateur de la revue ‘Études Foncières’ (France) Maurice CUSSON Professeur à l’école de Criminologie de l’Université de Montréal et Chercheur au Centre International de Criminologie Comparée (CICC) (Canada) Ousmane DEMBÉLÉ Maitre assistant et chercheur, Département de Géographie, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Cote d’Ivoire) Clément DEMERS Professeur à l’école d’architecture Directeur du programme de Montage et Gestion de Projets d’Aménagement (MGPA) à l’Université de Montréal, Directeur général du Quartier International de Montréal (QIM) (Canada) Djibril DIOP Chargé de cours à la faculté de l’aménagement de l’Université de Montréal (Canada) Nabi Youla DOUMBIA Doctorant et Chargé de cours à l’École de Criminologie de l’Université de Montréal (Canada) Agnès GNAMMON-ADIKO Enseignante et Chercheure, Département de géographie de l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Cote d’ivoire) Robert KASISI Professeur École d’Urbanisme et d’Architecture de Paysage de l’Université de Montréal (Canada) Benoit MOUGOUÉ Professeur, Département de Géographie, Université de Yaoundé 1 (Cameroun) Benoit ROBERT Professeur, Département de Mathématiques et de Génie Industriel, École Polytechnique, Campus Montréal (Canada) Rémy SIETCHIPING Chef d’Unité Planification Régionale et Métropolitaine ONU-Habitat Nairobi (Kenya) Claire SOMONNEAU Doctorante et Chercheure, l’Université de Montréal (Canada) et Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique) Aly Sada TIMERA Professeur et Chef du Département Aménagement du territoire, Environnement et Gestion urbaine, École Supérieure d’Économie Appliquée, Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Sénégal) Jean-François TRIBILLON Professeur à l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette, Consultant à ATC Consultant (France) Lassane YAMEOGO Maitre-assistant au Département de Géographie, Université de Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Gestion et coordination technique : Louise GUERNON-GAUTHIER, consultante Maryse HAMELIN-RAYNAUD, consultante
Funding structure:	Other sources Grants from Governments
Funding structure other:	Observatoire Ivanhoé Cambridge du développement urbain et immobilier

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