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Director of Urban Development
DEPARTMENT OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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Placed under the authority of a Director, the urban development department is responsible:
- To initiate any action by means of the prerogatives conferred on it by the provisions contained in this chart;
- Implement the institution’s policy on planning and investments; under the supervision of the secretary general;
- Develop and update planning documents;
- To monitor the application of the provisions of urban planning documents and development plans;
- To carry out studies of general or sectorial scope, related to the major projects;
- To define, implement and monitor the implementation of structuring projects infrastructure, equipment, networks and real estate cultural heritage;
- Ensure the social and environmental engineering of the projects;
- Develop and implement environmental, water and sanitation policy sustainable development;
- To develop the addressing plan and the cadastre in collaboration with the technical services;
- Provide training and technology monitoring in urban planning, networks various, equipment and sustainable development;
- Participate in building relationships with administrations and partners in development Coordinate the implementation of cooperation projects, cells and unit of special project management;
- Support municipalities and urban actors in urban planning actors;
- To permit the collection and archiving of hydrological data;
- Design and animate appropriate hydrological mathematical models;
- Produce flood forecast data.
- Implement the policy for the maintenance of real estate assets;
- To apply the prescriptions of urban planning documents;
- To examine the files of town planning acts;
- To enforce building standards, in collaboration with services and administrations concerned;
- Develop and implement the public health and hygiene policy;
- Maintain green spaces and cemeteries;
- To handle all the revenue and expenditure operations relating to its field of competence
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of studies, planning, and contracts is in charge of:
- Identifying infrastructural development needs for the city;
- Carry out participative development needs in consultation with the population;
- Coordinate development strategies and studies with other councils and state authorities;
- Plan and follow up the execution of strategic and operational development plans;
- Conduct and elaborate project feasibility studies in collaboration with consultants and state agencies;
- Supervise and conduct all internal studies required prior to procurements of services
- Carry out technical studies and designs of projects and follow up the execution
- Participate in the Elaboration of annual and monthly project execution and contract award plans;
- Participate in ensuring the regularity of contracts awarded by the council to third parties
- Participate in ensuring conformity to the procedures provided for in public procurement regulations;
- Participate in drafting and verifying draft purchase and contracts letters;
- Establish notifications and service orders;
- Participate in acceptance of the work and supplies.
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban planning and development is in charge of:
- Implement the prescriptions of urban planning documents;
- To study the town planning acts files, in relation to the services and administrations concerned;
- Monitor the development of economic activity zones or housing zones;
- To ensure a technical watch in the fields of town planning, construction and of the environment ;
- Implement the land policy in relation to services and organizations concerned;
- Ensure the maintenance of municipal buildings and public facilities;
- To inform citizens about the regulation of construction;
- To monitor development operations undertaken by parastatals, urban planning and real estate development (SIC);
- To prepare the necessary documents for the land and technical management of the layouts;
- Supervise the feasibility studies of private urban planning projects;
- To develop and disseminate spatial analyses of the information collected;
- Ensure a technological watch on the information and collection tools of urban data;
- collect, exploit, process, disseminate and store data(economic, financial, social, demographic, transport, housing, land; equipment, infrastructures, roads, various networks and the environment)
- To develop and monitor the cartographic projects of the city of Bamenda;
- Ensure a technological watch on the information and collection tools of the urban data;
- Develop and monitor addressing operations in relation to the services and administrations concerned;
- To develop and monitor cadastre operations in relation to services and administrations concerned.
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban design and architecture is in charge of:
- To design, carry out and follow studies of infrastructural projects
- Urban structuring in coherence with the objectives of sustainable urban development;
- To keep watch on construction and maintenance techniques and procedures
- Ensure the development of green infrastructure;
- Initiate, execute and supervise studies of infrastructures proposed by the master plan and Land Use Plans;
- To identify with the Cadastre services the land situation of the land situated on the proposed rights of way;
- To enforce the procedure of expropriation for reasons of public utility on the identified lands;
- To propose possible arrangements or compensation with the beneficiaries rights of these lands, in partnership with the Cadastre services;
- Put in place measures to safeguard the liberated right-of-way (Materialization of the tracks in the field, at least in stabilized earth).
- Plan and design new urban neighborhoods;
- Follow up and control urban spatial extension;
- Programme development operations
- conduct technical and funding studies
- provide information on council development policies
- ensure the design and management of public spaces
- prepare architectural plans for public buildings
- Prepare architectural programs for urban operations
- ensure that urban architectural studies and plans are effectively implemented
- participate in the evaluation of building permit files
- advise on architectural solutions based on regulatory constraints;
- design and realize building and development projects;
- monitor and control of realization of studies and projects conducted by external contractors;
- organize the work of designers;
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of urban mobility and transports in charge of:
- advise hierarchy on activities relating to urban mobility;
- ensure the proper functioning of road signs
- design road sign plans
- follow up and implement traffic plan
- follow up the implementation of the convention on the management of public lighting
- ensure fluid circulation through the management of car parks and road junctions with traffic lights
- define conditions for the organization and running of transport systems
- introduce and follow up the procedures for contracts and public service delegation
- ensure the administrative and financial follow up of public service delegations and contracts with exploiters
- design a guideline for activities and management indicators
- animate network of exploiters and relations with delegates
- organize an interface between users and exploiters of road networks
- ensure prospective sectorial and legal watch over the economy of the transport system
- to design, implement and monitor studies and projects in the field of travel, sustainable transportation, parking and regulation;
- to monitor and appreciate, in particular, the impacts of development projects networks and transport equipment;
- to elaborate transport organization and regulation documents;
The chief of service shall work in collaboration with motor park managers
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of city greens and environmental policy is in charge of:
- implement the Green Plan;
- implement landscaping and beautification actions;
- create and maintain gardens, parks and green spaces;
- implement measures for the sustainable management of green waste produced in the city ;
- create municipal nurseries and regulate the installation of private nurseries;
- To follow actions related to the conservation of classified natural areas.
- organize and supervise garden creation and maintenance works;
- ensure proper upkeep of gardens and green spaces;
- organize work to care for plants in green spaces and gardens;
- follow-up outsourced works;
- carry out gardening and care for plants according to prescriptions;
- carry out public gardens maintenance works;
- ensure routine maintenance of used tools;
- ensure sector monitoring and the promotion of environmental policy;
- follow up and assess the environmental policy;
- enhance partnerships;
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service the town planning acts service is in charge of:
- Promoting the implementation of all town planning acts according to the legal dispositions in force;
- Creating and ensuring the functioning of a one stop shop for the award of these acts in collaboration with the different stakeholders involved;
- The sensitization of the population on the acquisition of town planning acts;
- In collaboration with other services ensure the operational implementation of town planning documents;
- In collaboration with Municipal Police ensure the respect of development and construction norms and exercise policing powers in the construction domain;
- Ensure fluent administrative treatment of town planning acts files.
This service comprises the following Bureau:
- Building permit Bureau
- Architecture Bureau
- Finance Clerk
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of waste management, hygiene and drainage is in charge of:
- to elaborate, and to apply, the measures relating to compliance with the rules of hygiene and public health;
- to monitor the collection and treatment of household waste and other wastes, and related contracts;
- to instruct the regulatory procedures relating to hygiene in relation to the bodies concerned;
- Ensure the cleanliness of public spaces (streets, markets, public places, etc.);
- to control the operation of building sanitation equipment housing and economic activities in relation to services concerned;
- fight against various pathogens;
- to implement information, awareness and education campaigns in terms of hygiene and sanitation;
- To study and carry out the construction work of the primary and secondary storm water drainage
- Participate in the construction work of hydraulic structures of large size scales;
- Ensure sulphase run-off flow of primary and secondary storm, water and drainages.
This service shall comprise of:
- BUREAU OF SEWAGE DRAINAGE, headed by a Bureau Head.
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Placed under the authority of a service head, the service of Cemetery and Land Reserved Protection is in charge of:
- Conceiving and promoting the implementation of a land reserve master plan for the city council;
- Ensuring the operational and physical protection of council landed properties;
- Evaluating security risks and protection needs of council landed properties;
- Surveying the city and identifying areas to be acquired and protected by the city council with relation to the spatial development of the city;
- Ensuring the deliverance of land rights and titles on council lands;
- Sensitizing the population on the need to protect council lands and risky areas;
- Table burial applications;
- Allocate areas for burial;
- Keep the registers of burial
- Manage the cemetery staff and ensure the application of rules;
- Record graves and burials;
- Receive materials and maintain working tools;
- Organize the work of gravediggers.
This service include:
- THE CEMETERY BUREAU
- THE LAND RESERVED PROTECTION BUREAU