American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

In the current era of local development, the choice and planning of local development projects have become complex, due to the involvement of multiple benchmarks, such as political, technical, social, economic and environmental. This requires good collaboration between the populations benefiting from development projects, political decision-makers and technicians. And the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making tool (MCDM) is an adequate technical instrument capable of enabling the various actors involved to design and plan development models that meet the real needs of local populations. This article proposes a modeling and a theoretical simulation of the ELECTRE TRI technique (MCDM), likely to be applied in the process of choice, planning and evaluation of local development projects. The objectives of the study are to acquire mastery of the methodology, to assess its integration into the planning process and to study a concrete problem. Interest is particularly focused on the integration of human development criteria, depending on public policies, levels or areas of application, actors involved or stakeholders, the historical and cultural dimension of the local human group. We start by presenting the ELECTRE TRI method; we then formulate an ELECTRE TRI model in the context of the territorial division of Bantucracy (Boundja 2019); we finally show the simulation of a development project in this context.