Sustaining community infrastructure through community-based governance (the social practice of collective design policy)

Gbadegesin, Job Taiwo; Ojekalu, Samson Oluseun; Gbadegesin, Taiwo Frances; Komolafe, Markson Opeyemi

doi:10.1108/sasbe-10-2019-0142

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“…The study found community participation as a more dominant factor in Hakahana than in Okuryangava and Otjomuise. Fakere et al [95] focused on socio-economic characteristics and community participation through self-help enterprises; Gbadegesin et al [96] focused on the community decision-making of property-owner associations, whilst Ebekozien [97] focused on community-based low-income housing. These have been studies on urban infrastructure from the authors' respective country's perspectives and not the management perspective.…”

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A Multi-Faceted Approach to Improving Public Services in Low-Income Housing in Windhoek, Namibia

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The characteristics of low-income housing in Namibia include severe inequality in housing standards, heavy reliance on non-office jobs, overcrowding, and poor infrastructure. This study uses a survey and semi-structured interviews to investigate the improved service delivery of this low-income housing. It explores this through the perspectives of community-based facilities management, sustainability, and enterprise development. In particular, the study examines opportunities for enterprise development, the willingness to participate in the production and management of public services, and the current state of public services in selected settlements in Windhoek. The results show that a lack of access to fire safety, disaster prevention, recreation, green spaces and tourist facilities are gaps in service delivery. Residents are willing to participate in both the co-production and management of public services. The study also found that residents have the appropriate skills to enable their engagement in management and production, and suitable governance structures are put in place to foster trust. The study recommends a policy that requires community visioning focused on public service improvement. It also calls for renewed trends in low-income people’s participation in public service development processes. The study’s contribution to existing knowledge on this subject is that it produced a multi-faceted framework for improving public services in low-income housing that is based on principles (and actions) of sustainability and policy (and planning) of land/housing access and has the potential to lead to public service-based community wellbeing.

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A Multi-Faceted Approach to Improving Public Services in Low-Income Housing in Windhoek, Namibia

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“…However, informal sector operations and linkages with the formal sector tend to thrive on the platform of the social services provision. This can be because the level of social amenities' availability seems to determine the pace at which the scope and depth of business interactions are affected at a given point in time (Gbadegesin et al, 2020; Gyau, 2018).…”

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Social services provision and stakeholder engagement in the Nigerian informal sector: A systemic concept for transformation and business sustainability

Ufua

Olujobi

Tahir

et al. 2022

Business and Society Review

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The informal business sector has made enormous contributions to Nigeria's economic growth and development, but this sector is not given the necessary attention to transforming these businesses toward sustainability. This study explores the depth of informal business sector practices in Nigeria. It underscores the inputs of stakeholders in the transformation of businesses in the Nigerian informal sector to increase tax remittances and employment generation for job security in the Nigerian economy. Also, it underpins value chain performances to transform the informal sector and rescue it from liquidation through voluntary company arrangements, administration, merger, takeover, and acquisition schemes. The study adopts a conceptual review. The research relies on extant literature relating to the antecedence of informal business sector activities in Nigeria. It relies on reports from tertiary data sources such as academic articles, books, newspapers, the Internet, and website sources. It further explores the views of researchers, covering the informal sector development and the support of the provisions of the social services in Nigeria. There is the absence of a model for the transformation and sustainability of the informal sector enterprises in Nigeria. This study recommends a model approach to address informal sector enterprises' issues and challenges necessary to transform the businesses into a formal status while supporting their sustainability and resilience.

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Sustainable real estate management practice: Exploring the priority of operational stage for actualizing sustainable built environment goal in sub-Saharan Africa

Ogunba

Dabara

Gbadegesin

2021

International Journal of Construction Management

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In the real estate and construction industry, the built environment contributes to environmental crises and climate threats . However, what are the environmental negative effects/impacts at the post-development stage (operational stages)? Are they different from those at virgin constructions? After the construction phase, what factors inhibit the adoption of sustainable real estate management practice, herein referred to as the green lease movement? To what extent has sustainable real estate management practice been adopted in Nigerian commercial cities? Specifically, this study examines negative environmental crises at the operational stages and confirms if different from the conventional counterpart. It also examines the factors inhibiting the full adoption of sustainable real estate management practices. Similar to conventional construction, carbon dioxide emissions and toxic waste generation emerged as the major negative effects/impacts during the operational stage. Lack of prerequisite skills, enforcement of green leases, inadequate training, and empowerment of licenced property managers and occupiers on how such leases operate significantly inhibit the full adoption of green leases in the region. Energy conservation bulbs and digital metering are the most adopted features. The current property management practice does not address these negative effects/impacts.

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Sustaining community infrastructure through community-based governance (the social practice of collective design policy)

Cited by 4 publications

References 63 publications

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Improving Public Services in Low-Income Housing in Windhoek, Namibia

A Multi-Faceted Approach to Improving Public Services in Low-Income Housing in Windhoek, Namibia

Social services provision and stakeholder engagement in the Nigerian informal sector: A systemic concept for transformation and business sustainability

Sustainable real estate management practice: Exploring the priority of operational stage for actualizing sustainable built environment goal in sub-Saharan Africa

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