Making spaces for co-production: collaborative action for settlement upgrading in Harare, Zimbabwe

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Abstract

To make co-production work as a strategy for urban development, and to establish a basis for collaborative action, states and organized communities must find a way to manage their unequal power relationship. Effective partnerships, constructed through projects of co-production, require participants to move beyond institutionally defined roles of service provider and service consumer to forge new terms for collaboration and spaces for joint decision-making. The processes of making space for co-production can be centrally important to establishing the legitimacy of development activity that includes the urban poor as stakeholders. Drawing from research undertaken in Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper examines how a memorandum of understanding was used to frame dialogue between community and state actors and facilitate co-production of housing and infrastructure in a low-income settlement.
Original languageEnglish
JournalEnvironment and Urbanization
Early online date6 Aug 2018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Aug 2018

Keywords

  • Co-production
  • Harare
  • Informal settlements
  • memorandum of understanding
  • shelter upgrading
  • state–social relations
  • Zimbabwe

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Global Development Institute

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