www.pep-net.org ISSN:1908-6989 Vol. V No. 2, March 2008 Mayor of Cotonou, Benin bares 6-point agenda in light of CBMS results 4. Facilitation of an Anti-Malaria Left and bottom right: Typical source Campaign of drinking water A joint action between the town council and the Ministry of Health aimed at protecting the population from Malaria will be facilitated. 5. Building of Water Kiosks The town council will build water kiosks for households that do not have the means to Typical dwelling unit subscribe to the Benin National Water Mayor Nicéphore Diéudonné Soglo Company. 6. Building of a Technical Learning School in Gbedegbe There are already two colleges of general education in the 13th District but these are located very far from the area of Gbedegbe which is in need of either a college of < next page Inside he city council of Cotonou, following priorities in Cotonou’s 6-Point T Benin, through its Mayor, the Agenda: Honorable Nicéphore Dieudonné CBMS Research Grants Program Soglo, has outlined several priority 1. Building of Public Latrines attracts 18 applications from programs, projects and activities (PPAs) The town council proposed to build public research institutions for the city, which are expected to uplift latrines in the areas of Agla, Ahogbohoué, the living conditions of households, Aibatin and Houénoussou. worldwide 3 particularly those located in the 13th District of Cotonou. 2. Building of a Public Health Center The only public health center which caters 5th National CBMS Conference This developed after the CBMS Team in to the healthcare needs of the entire Highlights Immense Progress Benin unveiled its report in 2006 population in the 13th district is located in in Use of the CBMS 4 - 5 highlighting the substantial deficiencies Houénoussou. Owing to its distance to the in the provision of basic infrastructure, other areas, it is convenient to build utilities and social services in the district another public health center in Agla. composed of the areas of Agla, Updates on CBMS Country Ahogbohoué, Aibatin, Gbedegbé, 3. Strengthening of Electricity and Projects 6 - 7 Houénoussou and Missité. Water Supply Networks The town council proposed to strengthen 6-point agenda for Cotonou the electricity and water supply networks 7th PEP Meeting to be held in Mayor Soglo, who served as Prime Minister in order to allow the households in the 13th the Philippines 12 of Benin from 1990 to 1991 and President district to have access to electricity and from 1991 to 1996, has defined the water. Project Updates Benin Mayor of...from page 1 * Installation of public latrines to reduce Patterned after a national survey known defecation in nature. This is especially as Integrated Modular Survey on the Living prevalent in Azéhounholi and Voli where Conditions of Households, the CBMS general education or a technical college. 44.3 percent and 40.4 percent, initiative in the country aims to provide Hence, the inclusion of this item in the respectively, of their population do not disaggregated data at the local level to agenda. have access to sanitary toilets. support the decentralization process which started in December 2004. To accomplish the above, the town council * Construction of school buildings for both will collaborate with the district head, the primary and secondary levels. The country’s Observatory of Social Change area leaders and the development at that time only monitored poverty and committees in the following tasks: * Establishment of a public transport measured its impact at the national level determination of the construction sites, system to serve the district of Adogbé. and could not provide disaggregated estimation of the cost of the projects and information at the commune, district and cost-sharing arrangements, exploration * Construction of a public health center in area levels. of the possibility of seeking Azéhounholi where the inhabitants still complementary financing from have to travel for 60 minutes in order to During the development phase of the development partners, and identification reach a health center. project, the CBMS Team in Benin was able of arrangements pertaining to the to identify a core set of indicators that management of the infrastructures after CBMS in Benin were collected for each commune (see their construction. Two years after the CBMS was pilot tested table below). in the country, the CBMS Project Team in The City of Cotonou where the 13th District Benin has successfully installed the The initial development of CBMS work in is located is the economic capital of Benin system in three communes in the country, the country was administered by the as well as its largest city. It houses many collected information from a total of Cellule d’Analyse de Politique Economique of the country’s government and 16,300 households composed of a total (CAPE), in cooperation with the CBMS- diplomatic services and is considered as population of 57,850, and drafted profiles Benin Project Team headed by Dr. Marie Benin’s de facto capital even if the official of these communes based on the CBMS Odile Attanasso. ❋ capital is Porto-Novo. data gathered from these sites. Strategic recommendations Meanwhile, the CBMS Team in Benin has also made the following recommendations to the local authorities in the District of CBMS Core Indicators, Benin Adogbé in light of the CBMS survey results Dimensions Indicators in the area: Demography and Social Population by age and sex, population structure, Characteristics sex of household head, etc. * Provision of access to electricity to Illiterates by age and sex households especially because only less Health and Nutrition Distance between health centers and dwelling than a third of the population of the units, prevalence of common diseases, district of Adogbé use electricity. classification by order of importance of common diseases * Construction of a stand-pipe fountain for Conditions of Dwelling Units Proportion of households according to type of the households that use water from dwelling, proportion of households according to unprotected wells (24.4 % for the entire the construction materials of the roof of district). dwelling units, proportion of households according to number of rooms * Installation of a facility that will recycle Access to Water and Proportion of inhabitants who use different types of water household waste (82.6 % of the total Sanitation supply sources and toilets number of households in the district still Access to Energy Proportion of individuals according to the mode dispose of their wastes in nature). of lighting, proportion of individuals according to the mode of energy used in the * Provision of access to an improved kitchen hearth for all the households of the Possession of Inheritance Proportion of individuals according to the type Adogbé district where the majority use of inheritance firewood (71.3 %) in order to reduce Socio-community data Distribution of education, health, boutique consumption and to slow down market and transport service infrastructures desertification. Migration Proportion of individuals who have migrated 2 CBMS Network Updates March 2008 Project Updates CBMS Research Grants Program attracts 18 applications from research institutions worldwide he CBMS Network Research given opportunities to participate in the CBMS network’s database as well as access Grants Program, which provides CBMS and PEP network’s training to technical support from the network’s funding to support new CBMS initiatives in T workshops and conferences, access to the pool of technical advisors. ❋ developing countries, has recently attracted a total of 18 applications from CBMS Network: Project Proposals 2007-2008 research institutions worldwide. Eleven of Title Country Project Proponent these proposals came from Africa, five from Asia, one from South America and AFRICA another from Europe. The titles and 1 CBPMS in the Communes of So-ava Benin SSCP/BENIN and Parakou proponents are summarized in the table 2 MDG CBMS in Malawi Malawi African Institute for below. Development Research 3 Development and Pilot test of a Child South Africa Children’s Institute, Poverty CBMS in South Africa University of Cape Town Thus far, only the proposal submitted by the SMERU Research Institute in Indonesia 4 Developing a Sierra Leone Community- Sierra Leone Moyamba District titled “The Implementation of CBMS in the Based Poverty Assessment Tracking System City of Pekalongan, Indonesia” had been 5 Capacity Building for Poverty Reduction Cameroon Institute for Agricultural approved by the CBMS Steering Committee in Rural Cameroon using the CBMS Research and Development while the rest are still undergoing review. Approach 6 Fostering Poverty Reduction Liberia Liberia Democratic Institute Mechanism through Rigorous According to the CBMS Network Research and Monitoring of Coordinating Team, which is Poverty Stricken Issues for administering the research grants Decentralized Human Development 7 Community-Based Poverty Monitoring Nigeria University of Nigeria Nsukka program, up to nine grants in the System in Nigeria: A Community maximum amount of US$ 50,000 will be Participation Approach awarded to research institutions, national 8 Application of Community Directed Nigeria Youth Development and Social Intervention to Combat Poverty, Research (YDSR) government agencies and local Improve Access to Health and government units from developing Education in North Eastern Nigeria countries except for those countries where 9 Climate Change and Poverty in Arid South South Africa Center