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Author:Mah, Solange Forewah
Title:The Potential of Public Private Partnerships in the Urban Development Challenge of Affordable Housing in Africa: The Case of the Social Housing Sector in Cameroon
Publication type:Master's thesis
Publication year:2011
Pages:vi + 61      Language:   eng
Department/School:Maanmittaustieteiden laitos
Main subject:Kiinteistöoppi   (Maa-20)
Supervisor:Viitanen, Kauko
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Location:P1 Ark Aalto  313   | Archive
Keywords:social housing
urban development
public-private partnerships
Abstract (eng): This Master's thesis explores how Cameroon, a sub-Saharan African state, has been trying to face-up to one of the most acute urban development challenges in the continent today: meeting the housing needs of its urban population in the midst of an urban housing crisis that arises from a population explosion and high rates of rural urban migration that have resulted in the proliferation of informal settlements and slums in her cities.
It does so by means of using the Global Strategy for Shelter (GSS) by the Year 2000 as an analytical framework that emphasizes private sector involvement in public infrastructural provision of housing, to make a critical review and analysis of both the historical trajectory that Cameroon's public housing efforts have taken and the current social housing programmes that are being developed and implemented by the government in the context of what it has described as a gigantic project to provide 10.000 housing units and 50.000 developed plots for residential buildings to be provided to Cameroonians by 2013, without the effective participation of the private sector as partner.

The study compares the government's project implementation on her ambition to provide these 10.000 housing units so far with that of a small public-private partnership (PPP) between a local government (the Douala Urban Council) and private investors in a company called the Societe d'Amenagement de Douala (SAD), even as the latter was confronted with several structural issues that could have been reduced with stronger government involvement.
The study situates these on-going efforts by the Cameroonian administration towards the provision of affordable housing in the backdrop of an urban housing deficit estimated at more than a million housing units, in the major cities of Yaoundé and Douala.
Pointing out the current financial and technical difficulties encountered by the government in the execution of its affordable housing policy ambitions, the study concludes that the exclusion of the private sector and public-private partnerships has so far proven to be a strategic mistake that grinds the government's ambitions.
On the basis of these assessments, the study recommends that the government should pursue more vigorously a strategic initiative that prioritises partnership with private sector actors in models of PPPs that can enable her to more effectively leverage the financial and technical expertise that these have to offer, as well as suggesting some institutional .reforms that the Cameroonian administration should consider her housing policy goal of promoting affordable housing for the majority of Cameroonians.
ED:2012-01-11
INSSI record number: 43786
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