Since 2019, urbaMonde with several communities across the world in the process of implementation of the label Eco-development, which seeks to foster the emergence of a new way to design, build, and manage the city permanently.
In 2009, the French government launched the process Eco-neighbourhood. The year 2012, it marks the beginning of the first campaign for the label. It is from here that several countries began to take an interest in what the label “French”.
The specificity of the label Eco-neighborhood lies in the fact that it does not provide ready-made solution. Each country, each city, each community can use it to move to the cities and regions more sustainable, and this of a cross-cutting, integrated and contextualized.
A charter of 20 indicators grouped into 4 dimensions, allows the wearer-his project that use the label Eco-development to find answers of their own, with ambition, and in respect of their culture, their history, their traditions and their ways of life.
What are these 4 dimensions, and these 20 indicators ?
- Size 1 : Approach and Process
- Dimension 2 : The life and customs of
- Dimension 3 : Territorial Development
- Dimension 4 : Environment and Climate
In these 4 sizes and 20 indicators were added 4 steps :
- Step 1 : the Eco-development project
- Phase 2 : the Eco-construction
- Stage 3 : the Eco-neighborhood delivered
- Step 4 : the Ecodistrict confirmed
However, since 2023, the label has evolved, and is no longer possible to stage pre-operational stage (stage 1 and 2). The two versions of the label are now focused on neighborhoods “delivered” and neighbourhoods “experienced” (formerly the “confirmed”).
The follow-up work carried out by urbaMonde
In British :
In 2019, urbaMonde has accompanied the implementation of phases 1 and 2 of the label Eco-neighborhood in the neighborhood of San Antonio, Cali, Colombia, for the account of the Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and the Embassy of France in Colombia.
For this, three participatory workshops, bringing together institutional actors in the community and groups capita-e-s of the district, have been organized. These meetings have helped to achieve a participatory diagnosis on the basis of the repository Sites, as well as a plan of action for the label Eco-neighborhood level 2 for the city of Cali in December 2019. This made Cali the first municipality in America to have initiated the process of labelling French green neighborhood.
Mexico :
In 2021, urbaMonde has provided technical assistance for the implementation of the label Eco-district from the State of Campeche in Mexico, with the support of the decentralized cooperation of the town of La Rochelle. This support has included the identification of relevant stakeholders and the organization of meetings and workshops in order to strengthen the normative framework local in order to maximize the chances of success of the approach Ecodistrict.
In Senegal :
Finally, since 2020, urbaMonde accompanies the project of the City FSH to Diender in Senegal, which is worn by the Senegalese Federation of the Inhabitants (FSH) and urbaSEN. Through this project, it is planned to build 150 houses with local materials and sustainable. Once these homes are completed, they will be reserved for vulnerable families with irregular income, and modest, and in particular to women.
Because it’s been 3 years that meetings and discussions are held with various stakeholders of the project, and, each year, a workshop is held with all stakeholders in implementation. And in 2022, the future Eco has been granted.
