Urban development interventions and living conditions in the informal settlement of Yaounde

Angeline Raymonde Ngo Essounga () and Frida Njiei Achu ()
Additional contact information
Angeline Raymonde Ngo Essounga: National Center For Education, Ministry of Scientific Research And Innovation, Cameroon
Frida Njiei Achu: National Center For Education, Ministry of Scientific Research And Innovation, Cameroon

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2021, vol. 21, issue 1, 709-717

Abstract: Since the mid-2000s, the political capital of Cameroon, Yaounde is undergoing construction with many urban development projects coordinated by the Yaounde City Council carried out in residential areas and informal settlements. These various activities as many other urban development projects have impacts on the living conditions of the inhabitants. This article focuses on the projects specifically carried out in the informal settlements, aims at analyzing the meaning and the scope of those projects in the lives of individuals and communities. Indeed, this work, is interested in the different operations of eviction, opening up and restructuring that took place in the informal settlements as well as their social consequences on the entire population of the city. It describes these different operations as public actions that are not deployed over the entire area occupied by the popular neighborhoods in Yaounde, but only on certain slums concentrated around the central town. These results and conclusion are developed from data obtained during direct observations in the slums, from archives and from semi-structured interviews with some urban actors who participated in the implementation of urban development programs in the slums of Yaounde.

Keywords: Slums; urban development; living conditions; public action; Yaounde (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/3907/1440 (application/pdf)
https://techniumscience.com/index.php/socialsciences/article/view/3907 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tec:journl:v:21:y:2021:i:1:p:709-717

DOI: 10.47577/tssj.v21i1.3907

Access Statistics for this article

Technium Social Sciences Journal is currently edited by Tasente Tanase

More articles in Technium Social Sciences Journal from Technium Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tasente Tanase ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).