Geospatial ICT infrastructure for City Management in Africa: Case study of Ngaoundéré (Cameroon)

The city of Ngaoundere is experiencing an accelerated and unplanned urban growth. Abundant rainfall accelerates flooding and erosion. Given its location near the Sahel, Ngaoundéré is also very exposed to the effects of climate change. With support from the World Bank, through the Global Mechanism for Disaster Reduction and Disaster Recovery Program and the Open Data for Resilience initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (MINHUD) and the Urban Community of Ngaoundéré, we have undertaken to create and/or collect and disseminate open space spatial data on the built space, critical infrastructure and natural hazards centered on floods and rock fall. This is to promote new ideas and develop new tools that allow the city to take good decisions in order to increase its resilience based on smart parameters. A GIS database was built with open source QGIS software. A copy of this geospatial information has been uploaded to OpenStreetMap with matching TAGs or attributes. This is a georeferenced mapping project focused on the user. And, the flagship product that reconciles the needs of the main users is the digital Atlas. Keywords – Ngaoundere, QGIS, City Management