Reeve to equality of opportunity for the Bouches

Could not apply for membership of the inhabitants, and at the same time, uphold dumps. "The head of project city of the area of Saint - Antoine - the Viste embarrasses not circumlocutions to describe the quality of life of the inhabitants of this part of the 15th arrondissement of Marseille before Marcelle Pierrot. Deficient public lighting, garbage collection more than random, private spaces left abandoned by the funders: "Imagine, under these conditions, the population is involved, as it is desired in his neighbourhood transformation project", means questioning Ms. Reeve to equality of opportunity for the Bouches.

Operational since February 1, like his five counterparts (read below), Marcelle Pierrot is interested in this day of may in the territory of the northern districts of Marseille city. For two hours, she will speak with some 20 officials (equipment, education, youth and sports, labour and employment, health and social action, Prefecture, etc.), all volunteers to attend "project city leaders" in the implementation of urban renewal projects. On the only agglomeration of Marseille 10 of the 16 operations of this type in the Bouches focused, this renovation effort must mobilise EUR 881 million over fifteen years.

Public action aimed at "St-Antoine-La viste" sector, unemployment exceed 60 and that of the recipients of the RMI to 33, will be limited to the demolition and reconstruction of housing, as the Plan of Aou, one of the five relevant cities, where 25 apartments must disappear and a little more than half be rebuilt in situ. "Marseille and the Bouches, housing is a priority, in view of our strong deficit in the matter." But urban renewal does not stop at this single issue, provides Marcelle Pierrot. Lose not view it as, in the end, to remove all these neighbourhoods of the zoning of the policy of the city. "Vast task when we know that nearly a capita on two of the capital of Paca resides or a ZUS (sensitive urban area), or in a ZRU (urban remotivation zone) or in an include (urban free zone).

Improve school attendance

According to the road map that he has made the prefect of the Bouches, it is also for this new "missi dominici of the Republic" to focus on these other topics of priority action are school attendance and its corollary, the parenting. "In the Department, many young people are very early break with the educational system," says Reeve, which must not lose sight of the different components of the Government policy of social cohesion: employment, health, crime prevention, the fight against discrimination.

"The accumulation of problems in urban areas in difficulty makes them de facto priority, but my field of expertise is not limited to them," insists Marcelle Pierrot. As with his counterparts, its installation in the Prefecture has coincided with the disappearance of the function of Deputy to the city, since it resumed its functions and beyond.

"The rank of prefect gives you naturally a greater authority in your relationships with your contacts, including elected officials, you can better gather, mobilize." "It gives you the capacity to implement, to promote initiatives, to make them", said Philippe Riffaut, the prefect responsible for equality of opportunities for the Val-. The representative of the State flows not so quiet life of Office. Since his arrival, in February, it has meeting of field on meeting of land with elected officials, business leaders, community representatives, teachers and social workers. "I am struck by the number of shares that these actors lead." "Need to recognise them and help them so that they are not depleted", considers this former Director of Office of the inter-ministerial delegate to the city (DIV).

To apply local policy of the Government, it relies on four flying groups "social cohesion and equal opportunities" interagency delegation over which he presides, assisted by a Secretary General from the Prefecture. Each group, composed of officials of State administrations, manages a specific priority: employment of youth in the neighbourhoods in difficulty, the support to parenting, integration and the preparation of urban social cohesion contracts (USOC), January 1, will take the relay of city contracts.

"Federate initiatives."

"It is a heavy trade, which embraces a scope of expanded and where the representation is important," said Marcelle Pierrot. Seconded by a Director of cabinet, including "to return the horizontal folders", it is based on the new direction to social cohesion and equal opportunities of the Prefecture of the Bouches. This structure, which is directly linked him, has five mission charged coupled respectively to the prevention of crime, the fight against drug addiction, the policy of the city, employment and housing.

"In large part, my mission is also to coordinate the activities undertaken locally, to expand the circle of those who bear them to give them greater scale," says Philippe Riffaut. His alter ego of the Bouches not otherwise hear it: "At the level of associations, it is not duplicate what some are already, but to federate their initiatives, make them complementary, to create a true effect of training." 1.363 Actions financed last year, Marcelle Pierrot account and go to 1,600 this year, involving approximately 900 associations.

With the urgency that required the situation in the suburbs, dramatically reminded by the violence of last fall, the records of grant application procedure was lightened, which two months have been earned on their payment. The prefects to equality of opportunity had to ensure, as they attach to optimize devices of common law in force: the "Charter of diversity" to hiring for companies, the sites of insertion for the BTP, social micro-credits to the promoters of activity, "reception and integration contract" for training in the French-language public immigrants or the national platform implemented by the ANPE with the intention of young graduates less than 26 years (at least bac 3) from difficult neighbourhoods.

On the employment front, no prefect to equality of opportunity fails to promote also the Covenant (route of access to land, hospital careers and the State), to promote the access of young unskilled jobs in category C of the public service. Marcelle Pierrot wrote to all major public accounts of the Department General Council, major cities, hospitals to sell this procedure. But, in these times of fiscal restraint, the task is not of the more affluent. Public Assistance of Marseille (APM), a target of choice, eliminated 600 jobs in four years and has yet to lose 500 over the next five years. In addition, its staff is increasingly professionalized.

The employability of youth local devices and tools are investigated and, when this justifies, leveraged. This is the case, in the Bouches, "Passport to employment" through which large companies, such as Decathlon and Coca-Cola, undertake to allow young people from Sara for prowling for job interviews. In the Val-device support to young people in the second degree of disadvantaged students from Essec neighbourhoods must be extended to other large schools, such as the school of industrial biology and the EPMI (School of electricity, production and industrial methods), with the support of Philippe Riffaut. "I look forward to a role of facilitator, conductor", said Chantal Dardelet, responsible for pole resources "open social" ESSEC.

Cultural actions

Marseilles, the extension of the second chance school project, intended to bring its capacity for 350 students at more than 1,000, will be supported by the warden to equality of opportunity. It has financially support the ambitions of this facility out of which 60 of students on average find employment. As each of his counterparts, to support actions that enter no device of common law, Marcelle Pierrot has a line of EUR 3.2 million of free credits to use 80 of their amount. The balance must be necessarily devoted to cultural actions, another field of fight against the discrimination to which these prefects always provide collective responses. Representatives of the State, it is not matter that they are special cases.