PEOPLE LED MAPPING PROCESSES AS A TOOL FOR BOTTOM – UP PLANNING AND DEEPENNING OF DEMOCREATIC VALUES IN URBAN GOVERNANCE: Experience from eastern Indian cities by Monalisa Mohanty Director, UDRC-SPARC Alliances
HOW CITY’S EQUATION OF POWER CHANGE IN FAVOUR OF POOR
A general description of the project, including its key features: “Seeing is believing”- “Learning from each other “as basis for bottom up governance.
HOW CITY’S EQUATION OF POWER CHANGE IN FAVOUR OF POOR through a People led Mapping Process(between poor and city, women and men, private and public partners, organized and unorganized):
There is a critical role of mass movements or federation building in exploiting arrangements of governance to further the cause of the poor. The alliance believes that community based organizations can and will provide the critical pressure from below, to institutions of governance to make them act in the interests of, and be accountable to, the urban poor.
• Building a local leadership building for a larger collective mission for effective partnerships and scope for negotiation.
It is a mission driven work for which many projects and precedent setting activities have helped the processes to be built on the ground with expansion options for the poor, basically at two levels:
• Changing poor s role from beneficiary to primary partner . • through collaborative and solution driven approach through constant engagements .
1. Creating options for poor through internal resources through precedent setting activities. 2. Creating options for poor through government partnerships and other stakeholders.
• By Changing status of poor from encroachers to citizens to change agents/solvers for city .
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• Political and strategic solution not technical or academic solution.
People led Technical-NonTechnical Aspects
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