ADAPTING AFRICAN CITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Area : Africa

Service : Evaluation

Client : Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

Partner : Ramboll France

Duration : 08/04/2021-01/04/2023

Total amount : €108,500

Interim and final evaluation of the CICLIA (cities and climate in Africa) project preparation facility

African cities are exposed to the impacts of climate change due to the large concentrations of people often coupled with poorly adapted infrastructure. In this context, the CICLIA Project Preparation Facility is financing studies aimed at implementing projects or urban strategies promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation with climate co-benefits. Co-funded by the European Union (EU), the Swiss Cooperation (SECO) and the French Development Agency (AFD), the CICLIA facility was created at the end of 2016 and targets sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, Urbaconsulting has been mandated to carry out an intermediate (after 4 years) and final (after 6 years) evaluative capitalisation study of the CICLIA facility.

Type of service provide :

Conducting a qualitative analysis from interviews carried out with AFD project teams and technical departments, external service providers and national stakeholders;
Analysing the facility’s objectives, the studies funded and their impacts on national strategies and projects for urban development;
Assessing the impact of the studies funded on AFD capacities to set up urban projects and incorporate climate issues into the funded projects;
Evaluating the facility’s instrumental aspect: mobilisation process, quality monitoring, communication, funding allocations;
Producing operational recommendations for optimising facility implementation and exploring the option of extending the use of the funding instrument;
Delivering a final evaluation/lessons learned report of the facility, presenting the evaluation findings, evaluation summary and information on the case studies used.

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A Google Data Analytics-certified financial analyst and economist, Jeanne has over 10 years of experience of working on urban development, municipal services management, spatial planning, local governance and economic development projects carrying out economic and financial analyses, budget planning, performance evaluations and institutional strengthening. Her work has focused on drainage, sanitation and waste management programmes, municipal development plans, urban resilience mechanisms, as well as feasibility studies and economic models for local infrastructure.

She has worked on numerous public and regional projects funded by donors such as the French Development Agency (AFD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), developing administrative and financial procedure manuals, conducting local financial diagnostics, designing business plans and structuring budget monitoring frameworks.

Her approach combines analytical rigour, an understanding of national development strategies and expertise in the use of tools for collecting, processing and visualising economic and financial data (R, SQL, Tableau, Excel), all of which enables her to help improve the efficiency of public spending and statistical systems.

An experienced sociologist specialising in project management and development involving both local and national stakeholders, Dominique works on socio-economic studies and capacity-building plans and provides support for gender-inclusive approaches. Her recognised expertise enables her to take the social impacts (gender, inclusion, relocation) of infrastructure projects into account, particularly in the most fragile regions of Cameroon (Far North, North-West, East). She thus helps to support beneficiaries and fosters their active participation through social commitments aimed at ensuring the sustainability of infrastructure project investments. Highly committed to institutional capacity-building and community empowerment, she particularly focuses on both the inclusion of women and children and the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV). She has already conducted institutional assessments, including evaluating the skills of local government staff in five capital cities in Cameroon, which culminated in her designing training courses. She has also carried out social studies on mobility and the use of commercial facilities during project assessment and feasibility phases. Dominique has outstanding writing, interpersonal and managerial skills, which she puts to good use when supporting public institutions to manage projects financed by donors such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the French Development Agency.