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HOUSES, ROADS, RAILROADS, BRIDGES, AIRPORTS
PROJECTS IN WEST AFRICA

IVORY COAST, LIBERIA & EQUATORIAL GUIENA

• 100,000 (one hundred thousand) houses in Ivory Coast.
• 60,000 (sixty thousand) houses in Equatorial Guinea.
• 20,000 (twenty thousand) houses in Liberia.

Preliminary studies

As part of the government program

" Lodging for all "
The ministry of construction and urbanisation
In collaboration with

BNETD

Propose its

HOUSING PROJECT

I. Justification and environment of the project

The carrying out of the government program of the president of the Republic which aims to reforge the Ivory Coast in order to put the country back on the path to growth and the improvement if the quality of life of the people should mobilise all the energy.

The BNETD contribute fully to the realisation of this ideal by carrying out the running of large building schemes identified by the government among which figure prominently the access to housing for the greatest number of people.

Indeed the demand for housing in Ivory Coast has been steadily increasing since the 80's ; this tendancy has been accentuated with the state's disinvolvment with the direct production of housing which has had as a consequence the disappearance of an important section of the market that is to say housing destined to be hire-purchased or simply rented.

Since this period, all the housing produced ( including that by Sicogi ) has been destinated to be bought outright directly.

Today the need rises to 570,000 dwellings and the annual needs are estimated at nearly 42,000 units in urban areas of which only a half in the town of Abidjan which accounts for only 19% of the population of Ivory Coast.

As the production at the moment covers only a third of annual demand, it would appear that there is a lack of housing in Ivory Coast.more especially Abidjan. The disparity between offer and demand is apparent at all levels of society.

This imbalance is due, to an extend, to the mismatch between the offer and the available funds of the would-be house owners, this inspite of the financial support systems . Thus, the low-income bracket families generally have recourse to mediocre rented housing built by illegal and informal means at the origin of the proliferation of precarious and under-equiped quarters.

To remediate this effect, the BNETD wishes to initiate two innovative operations by integrating local materials ( géobéton, géopavés etc…) and reach the hire-purchase segment : one in the Cocody for the middle and upper income families ( medium and economical standing housing ) ; the other in the commune of Abobo destinated for the lower income families ( " council housing " ). The results of these operations will be transfered to the housing sector and in particular to the Sicogi with the support of the BNETD.

II. Object and description of the scheme

The project aims to construct 3,966 dwellings for low and medium income bracket families on two sites each with an area of 50 ha which have been set aside to this effect. One is situated along the route of Bingerville at Akouédo in the commune of Cocody and the other in the commune of Abobo on the road to Alépé opposite Biabou quarter. These are sites set aside for the Abidjan housing scheme " 12,000 dwellings " not attributed which have been the object of a Declaration of Public Utility by decree n° 98-561 of October 14th, 1998.

This operation requires the infrastructure appropriate to provide scope for the life of the quarter and to reply to the needs of the population.

III. The sites

3-1 Topography

- the site of Akouédo
The project site is highly well ventilated. It is relatively flat with a slight incline of between 2 and 5%. Nevertheless on the south-west part of the slight one observes between a 10% grade. On its north-east side, the land is very uneven, with an incline of up to 25%. This zone has been designated for a park ( see plan )

- the Alépé site
This site is marked by ravines which surround its western part which has grades of between 8 and 15% ( see plan ). The terrain of the axis Abidjan-Alépé relatively flat with only a 2% variation in elevation.

3-2 Site characteristics

The two properties border on major paved roads which will make these two neighbourhoods easily accessable.

IV Land development

The two sites contain individual and collective parcels designed for housing construction. Low and medium level houses are planed on the parcels from 204 to 450 square meters. The Alépé site will welcomed social and lower income housing on parcels from 100 to 255 square metres.Community installation are planed as well ; these are :

-markets -administrative areas
-primary schools -parks
-nursery schools -taxi stop
-shopping centers -bus stop
-sporting fields
-communities spaces

V. Indicative programme

5-1 Akouédo site
Low and medium level houses are planed for this site. The construction of 1410 houses is projected, including 710 duplexes and 700 apartments ( R+3 )

Base units are 3 or 4 rooms, with expansion to 4, 5 or 6 rooms on individual parcels of between 204 and 450 square meters.

5-2 Alépé site
Social and low-income houses are planed for this site. The construction of 2556 dwellings is projected, including 1456 basis houses and 1100 apartments ( R+3 )
Individual houses planed for this site will have 2, 3 or 4 rooms. These apartments will have between 2 and 4 rooms.

VI- Project financing

The present stage Government of Ivory Coast wants to build 100,000 (One hundred thousand) houses, 2, 3, and 4 bedrooms. Blue print, Survey has been done. Government of Ivory Coast will provide 20% cash and 80% Sovereign Guarantee. The developer company must have strong financial back ground and extensive experience in the field of construction.

V Project schedule

- Identification and training of enterprises ( SME ) responsible for the work
- Use of paving stone to construct secondary and tertiary roads
- Duration of the work : 12 to 15 months by site.

IVORY COAST: map

In Ivory Coast the requirement is that the construction company builds a certain number of houses and the Government Architect inspects the houses and the Government Mortgage Bank pays the construction company at once. Then the construction company continues building subsequent batches of houses and gets paid as they finish construction of each batch of houses till they complete the project. The Government of Ivory Coast also offers 20% cash and 80% Sovereign Guarantee for the housing projects.

EQUATORIAL GUINEA: map

The government of Equatorial Guinea gives 30% (thirty percent) of the cost of the houses in Equatorial Guinea, in CASH up-front. The Construction/Developer Company comes up with the rest of the 70% (seventy percent) finance against Sovereign Guarantee or Government can provide 5 (five) million barrel of crude oil each of every month till period of one year to cover the coast.

LIBERIA- map

The Government of Liberia already has 100% funds from the European Union Countries to take care of the housing projects in Liberia. The construction company needs to put the following information together as a package and