Tamabacounda, Dec 29 (APS) – Médina Coura, a district of the commune of Tambacounda, hosted a reflection workshop on Saturday, with the aim of mapping opportunities for socio-economic, cultural and environmental development.
This workshop was organized at the initiative of Méya Mbaye, marketing and communications engineer and native development actress.
This framework of reflection consists of identifying the opportunities and shortcomings in this district of the municipality of Tambacounda on the economic, educational, health, cultural and training levels.
”My primary motivation is based on self-sacrifice, I am a native of this neighborhood. I initiated this workshop to map and diagnose socio-economic, cultural and environmental development opportunities,” she explained in an interview with the APS.
She believes that “we cannot claim development without having a real map of the situation, without making a diagnosis which allows us to assess the level of development of the neighborhood.”
According to the marketing and communications engineer, this mapping will make it possible to identify opportunities and carry out actions for sustainable development of the Medina Coura district.
This workshop, the objective of which is to create a framework for fruitful exchanges, brought together several stakeholders, including the neighborhood delegate, the neighborhood development council (CDQ), the imams, and the clergy representative.
Representatives of ASCs and women’s promotion groups from the Medina Coura district also took part in the meeting.
Méya Mbaye emphasizes that the workshop must lead to a priority action plan. ”With this, we are going to advocate for the development of our neighborhood, because we belong to a country which has just launched its public policy framework and to benefit from it, we must anticipate many things including development policies ” he said.
The purpose of this approach is to “capture all the opportunities for our neighborhood,” said the initiator of the workshop.
She declared to the participants that ”development cannot happen without the inhabitants of the neighborhood”.
”We must work together to build our development model and implement our development project,” she concluded.
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