ENABLING AND BUBLIC PARTICIBATION AS APPROACHES FOR HOUSING SECTOR DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The housing problem has a top priority for most countries, and with the governmental efforts failure with their traditional policies to treat it, efforts started to take new strategies and mechanisms to solve it. In the 1970s the positive role of the users' energies and their resources began to take attentions, which encourage international organizations and international conferences to confirm the necessity to adopt the enabling strategies to obtain suitable houses, depending on the various multiple resources of the parties of the housing process, instead of depending on only public resources. So it is requires to create a suitable environment to promote and develop the capacities of all parties, and to enhance relations between them. and motivate parties to participate, with clear definition and distribution of roles. Develop institutional and organizational frameworks to support decentralization review the role of the central government, and delegate Authorities to local governments, with strengthen and develop the role of intermediate actors to activate an integrated work system.This study examines and analyzes Ouagadougou's experience in Burkina Faso as one of the enabling and public participation projects. to define the gap between the theoretical concept of (enabling and public participation) and its actual application. In an attempt to find a formula for balancing between the role played by governments, and the theoretical concept that requires integration of all parties roles together, to reduce the governmental responsibility and transform it from supplier and producer to partner, mentor and observe.This study deals with: First, the historical perspective of enabling and participation, their concept, objectives and types; second, the basis of enabling and participation, the main parties, tools and executive mechanisms. Third, analyze and evaluate Ouagadougou experience in Burkina Faso.The research concludes with a set of conclusions and recommendations that contribute in the formulation of a proposed vision for enabling housing policies and the formulation of a theoretical framework to activate enabling and public participation in providing adequate houses and limit the housing problem.