The QIR project – Inclusive and Resilient Neighborhoods 2030


This research project concerns the following areas: Research Axis 1: Society, Valorization, and Governance; Research Axis 2: Performance and Value; Research Axis 3: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Partners: Ville de Montréal, Geneviève Goudreault, Lucie Careau, Catherine Ellyson,
Researchers: Nathalie Drouin, Camélia Radu, Skander Ben Abdallah, Sara Rankohi
Students: El houcine Tarki, Hamza Bouarich, Meziane Mourad, Nesrine Dafri

Context

The QIR project (Inclusive and Resilient Neighborhoods 2030) initiated by the City of Montreal aims to provide all Montrealers with safe and high-quality living environments, as well as a localized response to their needs.

QIR is an approach based on three components: Territorial Equity; Local Governance; Convergence of Levers. Three pilot environments have been identified to test and enhance the approach by 2026 (Saint-Pierre | Lachine; Sainte-Marie | Ville-Marie; and Northeast | Montreal-North).

The pilot projects aim for significant changes in three components: Territorial Equity (changes addressing local challenges); Governance (improving trust and collaboration between central services, boroughs, and neighborhood tables); Convergence of Levers (providing more coordinated, integrated services to generate tangible and measurable outcomes; and QIR municipal services becoming more cross-cutting, horizontal, and matrixed).

Research Questions and Research Objectives

R1. What is the socio-economic value associated with the implementation of QIR (an organizational infrastructure of the City Center)?

R2. More specifically, does the implementation of such infrastructure generate socio-economic added value? If so, for whom? And how?

  1. Identify the conditions enabling the QIR approach (an organizational structure of the City Center) to generate socio-economic value;
  2. Study the socio-economic value generated by the adoption of QIR by various stakeholders;
  3. For the three current pilot environments – involve community members to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the QIR and determine, through a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats), the facilitating or inhibiting factors for the creation of socio-economic value; evaluate the degree of convergence/divergence of these factors; what worked well or less well for the creation of socio-economic value;
  4. Identify three comparable environments that are not part of the pilot project (future users) – involve community members to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the QIR and determine, through a SWOT analysis, the facilitating or inhibiting factors for the creation of socio-economic value.

Methodology

The objectives of this research are to identify the conditions that generate (or not) socio-economic value for the QIR approach; study this value through the appropriation of key stakeholders and identify the facilitating or inhibiting factors for the creation of this value.

To do this, we propose a comparative study between the three pilot environments and three new environments that we can identify together.