L’ingénierie spatiale à l’épreuve des jeux d’acteurs : dynamiques des territoires de pré-collecte des déchets à Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Abstract

The system of waste collection in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, has always been centralised from the independence of the country in 1960 to the implementation of the waste management master plan. The centrality was reflected in the institutional mechanism of provision of the service (state-own company) and in the catered urban territories, the city-centre. In 2005, the municipal authorities undertook a spatial engineering consisting in the setting up of territories of waste pre-collection in the framework of the implementation of the waste management master plan. This reform results in the building of collection infrastructures and the reorganisation of pre-collectors in the view of the privatisation of the sector. The aim of this paper is to analyse the process of reconfiguration of these territories of pre-collection and the ongoing dynamics in the light of the actors’ games. The map data and qualitative studies show that, on the one hand, the games of formal and informal pre-collectors challenge the spatial engineering in the waste sector in Ouagadougou

Keywords

• spatial engineering
• solid waste
• Ouagadougou
• Burkina Faso
• territorial dynamic
• actors’ game