Publish Date : 26-Oct-2018
Desiring to improve the living conditions of the 5 million inhabitants of Abidjan, the competitiveness of urban economic activities, to promote industrial development, urban planning and management, hygiene, public sanitation and air quality, the Ivorian government has initiated a vast integrated urban development program, valued at 770 million euros, which focuses on transport infrastructure.
The African Development Bank has decided to provide financial assistance of 567 million euros for this first operation of the urban transport master plan of Greater Abidjan, which represents 74% of the total cost. It also mobilized co-financing from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (8%) and the Global Environment Facility (1%), to relieve the counterpart of the Ivorian government, which stands at 17%.
At a cost of 237.52 million euros, the first tranche of the Bank loan was approved in December 2016 to finance the work of the 4 th bridge Abidjan - Connecting Yopougon Plateau -, and related services support for project implementation. The work of this bridge is now launched, and their progress is satisfactory.
On 16 October 2018, the African Development Bank gave the green light to a new loan of 329.47 million euros, reiterating its support for the project.
This complementary loan will make it possible to transform 88 km of roads threatened with saturation into urban highways, thus doubling the flow capacity of the traffic. Are concerned, the roads of Dabou (section between Yopougon and the junction of Jacqueville) west of Abidjan, and Adzop (between Yopougon and Thomasset) to the north. The Abidjan ring road called "Y4 ring road" (north section) will also be laid out, the Latrille boulevard will be extended and split, the traffic lights of 90 intersections will be rehabilitated and an intelligent traffic control system will be installed.
To this will be added the construction of four multifunctional centers, the rehabilitation of commercial infrastructures and some 3,000 women will be equipped with equipment to develop an income-generating activity. Finally, 91 new jobs will be created every day for three years and 500 policewomen in the Traffic Control Unit will benefit from logistical means to improve traffic control.
"This project is an integrated project, which will enable the most disadvantaged populations of Yopougon, Songon in the west, Abobo and Anyama in the north, which have poverty rates of 40 to 70%, lower access to employment areas, "said Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, Executive Director of the Bank for West Africa.
While they are not insignificant, the negative impacts of the project have been fully assessed, and are all reversible. They have been the subject of an Environmental and Social Management Plan approved under the Bank's Integrated Safeguards System (ISS). The displacement of the people affected by the project is done in a coordinated and progressive way, even before the work starts on a given area, and the government of Cote d'Ivoire fully assumes the related costs.
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