Niger Urbanization Review : Supporting Niger's Modern Oases
The Niger Urbanization Review aims to improve our understanding of urbanization and local governance in Niger by analyzing the current and potential contribution of urbanization to the country’s long-term national development and the institutional...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/205381613966216383/Niger-Urbanization-Review-Supporting-Nigers-Modern-Oases http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35197 |
| Summary: | The Niger Urbanization Review aims to
improve our understanding of urbanization and local
governance in Niger by analyzing the current and potential
contribution of urbanization to the country’s long-term
national development and the institutional and financial
capacity of local governments to manage the urbanization
process. Urgent attention is needed to manage Niger’s rapid
urban population growth. This review seeks to inform how
urban areas can leverage the concentration of population to
deliver services more efficiently and provide the enabling
environment required to support the transformation of
Niger’s economy, creating more productive off-farm jobs as
set out in the best-case scenario of the National Social and
Economic Plan 2017- 2021.Urban centers can play a pivotal
role in the delivery of essential services for their
populations and associated hinterlands and in realizing the
potential of their emerging role as foci for economic
development. While Niger has embarked on reform efforts
towards decentralization and devolution of power to the
local level since the 1990s, progress made towards the
implementation of these reforms has been limited. The review
is divided into five chapters. Chapter first looks at the
patterns of urbanization in Niger, and how they contrast
with the experience in the rest of the world. Chapter second
goes through opportunities and challenges brought on by
urbanization, looking at living standards and the structure
of the economy across settlement patterns. Chapter third
examines rural-urban linkages before discussing different
urbanization scenarios for the period 2015-2035. Chapter
fourth looks at the existing institutional and fiscal
framework and its impact on urban management in general and
on capital investments in particular. Lastly, the fifth
chapter provides an overview of policy implications and
offers operational recommendations for a possible way forward. |
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