{"id":1282,"date":"2025-09-12T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.urbamonde.org\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:18:04","slug":"support-of-the-senegalese-federation-of-the-inhabitants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbamonde.org\/en\/support-of-the-senegalese-federation-of-the-inhabitants\/","title":{"rendered":"Support of the Senegalese Federation of Inhabitants"},"content":{"rendered":"

The support programme for the Senegalese Federation of Inhabitants aims to develop the urban planning and housing improvement capacity of the inhabitants of the precarious neighbourhoods of the Dakar suburbs.<\/h2>\n

Since the end of the 1980s, the suburbs of Dakar have suffered recurrent flooding, causing considerable damage, particularly in the commune of Djiddah Thiaroye Kao (DTK), and in other communes in the suburbs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For almost 20 years, some housing areas remained flooded for several months of the year, forcing part of the population to abandon their homes, to rebuild them, or to live in particularly precarious conditions with significant health risks.<\/p>\n

From 2007 onwards, urbaMonde joined forces with local actors – residents organized in a collective of associations (CADDTK), as well as Senegalese urban professionals who had been looking for sustainable solutions to recurrent floods since 2005 – to strengthen the planning, prevention, and flood risk management capacities of the inhabitants of precarious districts.<\/p>\n

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This collaboration has given rise to a participatory planning process for the city of DTK and the emergence of a citizens’ movement organised in the Senegalese Federation of\u00a0 Inhabitants (FSH)<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0its NGO technical support, urbaSEN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This federation of residents now has nearly 13,000 members organised in 580 savings groups, mostly women (96%), and is established in some fifteen communes in the suburbs of Dakar and in the regions of Thi\u00e8s, Louga, and Ziguinchor.\u00a0It is a member of\u00a0<\/span>Slum Dwellers International<\/a>, a network of slum dwellers present in 32 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FSH calls for local, participatory urban governance and fills a real gap in the chain of city-building: the participation of inhabitants. Indeed, the expectations and needs of the populations of the irregular districts were only partially taken into account, and the inhabitants were not listened to.<\/p>\n