ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the first five years of operation of the reforms in the urban communes, which were undertaken in Cote d'Ivoire at the end of the 1970s. It analyzes the jurisdictions, management structures, as well as material, technical, and human resources of the Ivorian communes. The chapter describes a similar analysis of the urban community, including the ten communes of the city of Abidjan. It presents a study of urban finances and provides an examination of the exercise of authority of the decentralized communes, is an overall analysis of urban management reform. The chapter explores the urban management reform; it would be useful to locate the work within the perspective of the growing crisis in the provision of urban services and of the history of the development of local government bodies in Cote d'Ivoire. It deals with the exception of Korhogo, which got slightly carried away in setting up a fifth department: socio-cultural affairs and manpower.
