Social Political City Project in Dakar Created by Women
Author Madjiguene Cisse
Senegal, Dakar
Authors Madjiguène Cissé, REFDAF
Social Political City Project in Dakar Created by Women
Strengths: The goal of cité des femmes is to build an alternative city where people really like to live, to make the project be an experimental project in terms of a planned and participative project,to build an "ecological" city with renewelable ernergy, to offer women collective equipments and spaces for income generating activities like vegetable gardens.
Difficulties: The women are very poor and have to buy the ground themselves, they have to find money for building. Thus, the project takes time.
Extra information: On december, 2006, REFDAF women obtained about 100 of the 337 plots trough the REFDAF housing Project. The other women continue to save money in order to get a plot. The National Housing Society is ending the viabilization of the site. In 2009,REFDAF will begin to built the common space and if possible other houses.
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