Gandon se prépare à gérer son patrimoine communal : une formation stratégique pour pérenniser les acquis du SERRP
As part of the Emergency Recovery and Resilience Project in Saint-Louis (SERRP), led by the Municipal Development Agency (ADM), the municipality of Gandon is preparing to take a decisive step: moving from the status of beneficiary to that of autonomous manager of the public infrastructure built on its territory.
The SERRP project has transformed Gandon's communal landscape, providing the town with local infrastructure, structuring community facilities, and shared economic services. But these achievements are not just project deliverables: they now represent an essential public asset serving the people of Diougop and a key instrument for restoring the livelihoods of displaced populations from Langue Barbarie and strengthening their economic resilience.
Faced with this legacy, the municipality of Gandon finds itself at a turning point. How can we ensure the sustainable management of these facilities? How can we guarantee their maintenance and renewal? How can we make them effective tools for territorial development? These questions are at the heart of a strategic training session scheduled from September 30 to October 3, 2025.
Tailor-made training for real empowerment
Under the leadership of the Ministry of Urban Planning, Local Authorities and Regional Development, the Municipal Development Agency (ADM) organized this fourth specific training session. The objective is to strengthen the institutional, organizational, and technical capacities of the municipality so that it can fully assume the management of its public assets.
Far from a theoretical approach, the training aims to produce outlines of concrete and immediately operational deliverables: a municipal heritage management master plan defining a shared vision and clear governance principles, an exhaustive inventory of the transferred infrastructures with mapping and classification, economic simulation models to anticipate operating revenues and maintenance costs. The legal texts of the municipal technical system including standard organization charts, mission sheets and job profiles have also been revisited.
This pragmatic approach aims to better align with field realities. The four-day session was devoted to the appropriation, validation, and enrichment of pre-designed tools, allowing participants to focus on operationalization rather than conceptualization.
Transparency and accountability at the heart of the system
Beyond the technical aspects, the training incorporates a key governance dimension. A monitoring and evaluation system will be implemented, with performance indicators for each infrastructure. A mechanism for managing user complaints and requests will also be structured, ensuring traceability and continuous improvement.
This emphasis on accountability is not insignificant. It reflects the desire to make the Commune a legitimate and responsible actor, capable of reporting on its management to the populations it serves.
A transition model for other communities
Gandon's experience could set a precedent. Transferring the management of collective assets to local authorities is a major challenge for many Senegalese municipalities. How can we move from a welfare-based approach to a sustainable public service approach? How can we ensure the continuity of investments beyond external financing cycles?
The training involved a multidisciplinary team including a socio-economist specializing in territorial capacity building, a training engineering expert, and a logistics management specialist. Elected officials, technical staff, equipment managers, and community representatives will all be involved in the process.
Towards assumed empowerment
This session represents an important moment in the SERRP project's journey. It marks the shift from a beneficiary municipality to a managing municipality, from a logic of assistance to one of empowerment. For the people of Diougop, the stakes are high: the sustainability of local public services that improve their daily lives depends directly on the ability of their elected officials to embrace these new territorial development tools.
Beyond documents and procedures, a new culture of local public management is being built, based on transparency, efficiency and accountability to citizens.
Commentaires (4)
IL y a que des delincants fonciers á la mairie de Gandon. L'Etat doit AUDITER la commune de Gandon. IL ya trop de problemes fonciers dans la commune de Gandon en complicité avec leur faut geometre Bousso, le chef de Diougop Babacar BA et l'adjoint au maire. Le Maire n'est jamais present et travaillé en Mauritanie. Les terres se vendent comme des ognons en complicité avec les families ba et sow.
Que des voyous dans cette commune et Bousso, ancien de la SAED et éternel escroc, a rejoint cette commune à la retraite. Il y avait aussi un certain Ndour du bureau du Foncier sous Khoudia Mbaye. C’est un autre voyou. J’ai parlé au Maire Alpha Diop de mon problème de terres qui ont été léguées à Serigne Kafour Mbacké de Mpal grâce à Bousso et malgré mes réclamations rien ne fut fait. Le maire m’a conseillé de m’adresser à Bousso alors que je venais de lui dire que ce dernier était à la base de tous mes problèmes.
Nous réclamons un audit et une vaste concertation avec tous les détenteurs de délibération ou de quelque titre de propriété afin de faire toute la lumière sur une situation qui dure depuis trop longtemps.
Cette a que des caiman. Un certain geometre du nom de Bousso avec les members du bureau foncier qui sont tous des voleurs de terre. L'adjoint au maire est le plus grand corrupteur. On te demandé L'argent oubien ton dossier est bloqué. L'audite sera obligatoir dans cette commune avec ce Bousso de voleur foncier en complicité avec les chefs de villages et de quartier. Beaucoup de terrain ont été vendu sans leur proprietaire ne soit au courant.
La commune de Gandon doit être audité. Tout le foncier a été dilapidé.
Haha moi depuis le premier jour que j'ai vuce Boussou, je me disais que c'est un grand truand.
A travers les commentaries je constate que c 'est un escro du SAED qui est a la mairie. En complicité avec le maire.
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