Malem-Hodar

Malem Hodar is a rural Communauté of Senegal located in the Département of Kaffrine.

The birth of this rural community goes back to 1976 following law 72.25 of April 19th, 1972 which saw being born the rural communities with the Senegal.

Presentation of the locality

The C.R. of Malem-Hodar is located at the south-east of the district of the same name. It is limited to the east by the C.R. of Maka Yop, in the west by the rural community of Kahi, in north by the C.R. of Djanké Souf and in the south by the rural communities of Kathiotte and Diokoul Mbelbouck. The rural community of Malem-Hodar covers a surface of 625,5 km ² is 15,35% of the district. It includes 64 villages. The population rose in 2002 to 29.570 inhabitants with a growth rate of 2,25%. The density of the rural community is of 47 inhabitants per km ². The occupation of space reveals 2 subfields. North is occupied by the autochtones (Mdao, Ka). The populations are oldest but are equipped. The subfield of the south is equipped in infrastructure human. It is populated inhabitants of various origin. The population is young (53,7%) and the women account for 52%. The grounds are dominated by the ground Dior (a tropical ferruginous ground locally called Dior), which occupies 41.445 ha, that is to say 66%. Grounds DEK (a ground with hydromorphic properties locally called DEK) occupy 12.104 ha is 19%. The lateritic grounds (see Laterite) account for 11,84% is thus 7.419 ha.

Potentialities of the rural community

The C.R. has rather important classified forests. One can quote the classified forest of Malem-Hodar with a surface of 500 ha, the classified forest of Sagna (3900 ha) or that of Delby (700 ha). One does not find there permanent rivers. However the zone is equipped with about fifty backwaters and ponds of which most important are: Jumbo derrick Nguisane, Maka and Penda Malem which store water until December. The rural community has important cultivable surfaces. The Dior grounds, favorable to agriculture arachidière, occupy 66% of the surfaces. The existence of these cultivable surfaces, associated with an acceptable pluviometry (the annual average is of 585 mm) make to zone a true groundnut producer.

On the hydraulic level, the C.R. has 5 drillings feeding 19 villages. One finds these drillings with Malem-Hodar, Sagna, Séame, Miahène and Malem Thierègne. Xedina Far has a water tower equipped with a motor-driven pump. Apart from these infrastructures, the C.R. profits from a hundred well. School education is always marked by weak manpower. Indeed, the report card is occupied by 21 elementary schools and a college of teaching average open in October 2004. The elementary schools have 1900 pupils whose 1091 girls is 57,42% of manpower. One on the whole counts 49 classrooms in all the rural community including 10 provisional shelters. Manpower vary from one school to another. The elementary school mn Diaura Ka with the highest manpower (347 pupils) whereas the elementary school of Malem Thierègne concentrates 36 pupils.

The rural Community budget of Malem-Hodar

The activities of the rural council of Malem-Hodar function thanks to the resources of various origins. The budget or law of finances of the year is the assessment of the receipts and the expenditure of the rural community. The development of the budget requires a budgetary calendar.

the budgetary calendar: it is a long process which goes from the collection of information until the restitution. It includes/understands 8 stages. Indeed, the first stage consists with the collection of information which is made in September; in October is carried out the policy debate which is the 2nd stage. The development of the budget represents the 3rd stage which proceeds in November. In December are held 4th, 5th and 6th stages which are respectively the vote of the budget, its transmission and its approval by the sub-prefect. The remainder of the year will be devoted at the 2 last stages i.e. with the implementation and the restitution of the budget.
receipts: The resources of the C.R. of Malem-Hodar come from several receipts among which can quote

the local taxes have, they include the rural Tax and the obvious contributions. The receipts of the local taxes gave in the budget of 2003 a value of 11.000.000 of francs.

Sunday products. It is the hiring of the souks, of the rights of places, the rights of fourrière and the rights of parking of the cars. In 2003, the Sunday products generated 6.000.000 of francs.

the products of exploitation which gather the rights of alignment and the excise tax for the documents of the acts of Civil statue (3 050.000 francs)

Apart from these receipts, the rural community receives Senegalese State of the funds, called funds of equipment of operation. On the whole, the receipts represented for the budget of 2003 a value of 60.398.641 francs.

the expenditure: They can be gathered in 2 subsets: operating expenses and capital expenditures. The operating expenses deal with the cabinet of the PCR (with in particular its fuel, its allowances), the Community property, public lighting). In the budget of 2003, the expenditure was evaluated with 20.733.246 francs. The capital expenditures gather the realization to be carried out in the rural community. For example the construction of infrastructures related to commercial (souks), the construction of a classroom in a village of the rural community, or work of water conveyance constitutes capital expenditures.

Conclusion

Vast by its surface, rich in pedological resources , very low level of schooling of the populations, the rural community of Malem-Hodar must invest still much in the field of the education and the training of its human resources to be able to aspire to a local development.

Note

These data were collected by Mr. Adama Fall, rural organizer, and the teachers of the CEM of the rural Community of Malem-Hodar in 2006.

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