In a state of slum: governance in an informal urban settlement in Ghana

Stacey, Paul

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“…Private entrepreneurs and cooperatives commonly provide households with water and electricity, often siphoned off from state networks (see Post, Bronsoler, & Salman, 2017). NGOs (Brass, 2016), organizations with informal ties to political parties (Thachil, 2014), and community developments associations ( Stacey & Lund, 2016;Auerbach, 2017) can also step in to substitute for or supplement state services. In less coordinated ways, residents of informal settlements sometimes even generate illicit and haphazard patchworks of water and electricity connections to link themselves to city grids.…”

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State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

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Contemporary urbanization in the Global South merits greater attention from scholars of comparative politics. Governance, associational life, and political behavior take on distinctive forms in the social and institutional environments created by rapid urbanization, particularly within informal settlements and informal labor markets. In this special issue, we examine forms of collective action and claims-making in these spaces. We also consider how the state assesses, maps, and responds to the demands of informal sector actors. Tackling questions of citizen and state behavior in these informal urban contexts requires innovative research strategies due to data scarcity and social and institutional complexity. Contributors to this symposium explicate novel strategies for addressing these challenges, including the use of informal archives, worksite-based sampling, ethnographic survey design, enforcement process-tracing, and crowd-sourced data.Acknowledgments:

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“…(4) Legitimacy: Both Nima and Old Fadama are generally indicative of a common pattern in slums, where local institutions have the power to govern but do not have the legal backing to exercise authority. The statutory institutions that have the formal authority to rule do not necessarily have the power to do so [37]. There are exceptions.…”

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“…In Old Fadama there is the Peoples Dialogue on Human Settlements (PD), whose principle role is to act as a liaison between the residents and the government. They also contributed to the establishment of the Old Fadama Development Association (OFADA) in 2004 [37]. OFDA is an example of community governance that oversees many of the activities in Old Fadama.…”

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Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

Richmond¹,

Wolfel²,

Walsh³

2019

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Informal settlements have been the most pervasive form of new urban development over the past half century and the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. In this paper we determine the characteristics that are critical to understanding leadership structures in deprived regions within dense urban areas. In doing so we establish the key characteristics that contribute to urban poverty and introduce a conceptual model that can be applied to any city and contributes to an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of leadership structures in a slum. The framework we use in this paper to understand slum leadership structures is initially applied to Accra and Delhi. Urban poverty is frequently discussed either in terms of the developing or developed world, therefore we also apply the same framework to a disadvantaged community in the United States. This highlights that although the approaches to studying urban poor are often separate and distinct between the Global South and Global North, we believe using a similar framework can emphasize similarities and differences that might contribute to policy that is more effective in both locations. All of our discussed case studies highlight the importance of effective informal local leadership structures that communicate well with a transparent formal city government. Partnerships between all levels of leadership are paramount to successful city planning that focuses simultaneously on economic development and social equity. We expect this research will contribute to a more holistic perspective of how leadership structures within informal regions are related to the city as a whole.

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“…Now, let us leave the rural areas-from where many urban people, including this author, originate, and still have relatives and homes. Is it nature-ordained that people can live in filthy, crowded and 'man-made' disease prone areas [4][5][6] without any local educated person doing something about it-either out of philanthropy or out of pure business sense? We go on: Why should a country of 40 million people claim to find substantial crude oil or other mineral deposits, and yet, take a generation or two [7] to get the first extract from underground?…”

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Transformative Teaching of Engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kanyarusoke¹

2020

Innovations in Higher Education - Cases on Transforming and Advancing Practice

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This chapter advocates transformative teaching in later stages of sub-Saharan Africa's engineering students' study periods. The teaching is meant to help them discover their potential in direct solution of the region's engineering problems. Student attention can be drawn to many of these problems through transformative teaching. Two illustrative case studies are presented. They demonstrate how students at one South African University of Technology were enabled to address common, authentic and 'real world' problems in the course of their learning. A review of theory of teaching modes is given first, with more focus on transformative teaching. The cases follow. The first case seeds a maintenance and continuous improvement culture among successive student cohorts, eventually producing an evolved new product ready for the market in a period of about 5 years. The second case uses multi-level, multinational students, deploying multi-sourced funds and working at multi-premises in difficult campus study circumstances, to develop completely new products that are field-tested at two sites about 6000 km apart. Benefits, limitations and challenges of the teaching and how to navigate the latter, are given. Following its substantial benefits and the ways to overcome its challenges, transformative teaching is recommended to all engineering academics in the region.

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In a state of slum: governance in an informal urban settlement in Ghana

Cited by 52 publications

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State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South

Using a Socio-Cultural Framework to Understand Leadership Structures Amongst the Urban Poor

Transformative Teaching of Engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa

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