17:00 – 20:00

Registration desk open at Development Planning Unit

Room 102

19:00 – 20:00

Welcome address and drinks at Development Planning Unit  

Room 101

Conference Day 1: Friday, 7 September

08:30

Registration of participants                       

Cruciform Foyer

09:00 – 09:15

Official opening and welcome

Dr Harry Smith, N-AERUS Coordinating Committee

Caren Levy, Director, Development Planning Unit                

Cruciform LT1

09:15 – 09:30

Introduction and presentation of sub themes

Caren Levy

Cruciform LT1

09:30: – 10:30

Plenary Session 1: Grassroots-led Urban Development: Achievements, Potentials, Limitations

Alain Durand-Lasserve, Director of Research, National Centre of Scientific Research, France

Diana Mitlin, Senior Researcher on Human Settlements, IIED, UK

Yves Cabannes, Professor, Development Planning, DPU, UK

Chaired by: Caren Levy, DPU

Cruciform LT1

10:30 – 11:15

Debate platform

11:15 – 11:45

Coffee and tea break

11:45 – 13:30

Parallel sessions on sub themes:

A.   Social Movements: nature, limitations and potentials

Moderator: Diana Mitlin, IIED

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B.  Civil society and urban governance

Moderator: Michael Mattingly, DPU

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C.  Struggle for land and housing

Moderator: David Satterthwaite, IIED

Cruciform Foyer Seminar Room 3

D. Tools and methods in grassroots-led practice

Moderator: Julio Davila, DPU

Cruciform Foyer Seminar Room 2

13:30 – 15:00

LUNCH

15:00 – 16:30

Parallel sessions on sub themes continued

16:30 – 17:00

Coffee and tea break

17:00 – 18:30

Parallel sessions on sub themes continued

Conference Day 2: Saturday, 8 September

09:30 – 11:00

Plenary Session 2: Experiences with Grassroots-led Urban development

Celine d’Cruz, Shack/Slum Dwellers International – SDI, India

Rocio Lombera, Centro Operacional de Vivienda y Poblamiento – Executive Director, COPEVI, Mexico

Chaired by: Adriana Allen, DPU

Cruciform LT1

11:00 – 11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:30

Panel discussion and presentation of key-elements of work group debates by moderators/rapporteurs.

12:30 – 13:15

N-AERUS: one year forward and future plans

Dr. Harry Smith (Centre for Environment & Human Settlements, Heriot-Watt University, UK) and Peter Gotsch (Laboratory for Planning in a Global Context (GLORA), Universität Karlsruhe, Germany), N-AERUS Coordinating Committee

13:15 – 13:30

Closure of Conference

Caren Levy, DPU

13:30 – 15:00

LUNCH

15:00 – 18:00

Optional bus excursion to selected sites in London

11.45

Erhard Berner & Joop de Wit (Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands): Progressive patronage? NGOs, community-based organizations, and the limits to slum dwellers’ empowerment.

12.15

Alexander Jachnow (TU Berlin, Germany): Grassroots Organisations - is transformation eradicating their roots?

15.00

Mariano Scheinsohn & Cecilia Cabrera (Planeamiento Urbano y Regional Instituto Superior de Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina): Social Movement and Habitat Production in Buenos Aires. When Policies are Effective.

15.30

Isa Baud  and Navtej Kaur Bhutani (Dept. of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands): ‘Negotiated spaces’ for representation in Mumbai: ward committees, advanced locality management and the politics of middle-class activism

16.00

Michal Lyons & Alison Brown (Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences London South Bank University, UK): Life on the Streets: Voice and Power of Street Traders in Urban Tanzania

17.00

Anirban Pal (OTB Research Institute, The Netherlands): A Space for the Underprivileged: The Work of two community-based organisations in Kolkata

11.45

Paul Jenkins (Centre for Environment & Human Settlements, Heriot-Watt University, UK): Relationships between the state and civil society and their importance for sustainable urban development

12.15

Kokebe Haile Gabriel (Graduate School  "Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Competence", Technical University of Chemnitz andInstitute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen, Germany): Good Governance translated. The case of Participatory Neighbourhood Development in Addis Ababa/Ethiopia

15.00

Normand Brunet (Institut des sciences de l’environnement Université du Québec, Canada): Brésil: un autre développement urbain est-il possible?

15.30

Maartje van Eerd (Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), the Netherlands): Policy interventions and grassroots initiatives. Mismatches in a relocation project in Chennai, India

16.00

Moses Tukwasiibwe (Faculty of Development Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda): Grassroots-led strategies and actions for changing urban governance: A case of the Community Peace Programme in Mbarara, Uganda

17.00

Mtafu A. Zeleza Manda (Centre for Community Organisation & Development, Malawi): Grassroots-Led Urban Development: Achievements, Potentials and Limitations - Experiences in Malawi

17.30

Eleni Kyrou & Pascale Hofmann (Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK): Grassroots organisations as providers of a service: critical engagement with the state in Mumbai, India

11.45

Antonio Stefano Caria (DESCO, Center for the Study and Promotion of Development, Peru): Titles without Development: Empirical findings on the results of land titling policies in Lima’s pueblos jóvenes

12.15

Tim Ndezi (Centre for Community initiatives, Tanzania): The Limit of community initiatives in addressing resettlement of urban settlements in Kurasini ward, Tanzania

15.00

Charlotte Lemanski (Department of Geography, University College London, UK): Problems of community (in)capacity in a low-cost housing community in Cape Town, South Africa

15.30

Valérie Clerc (Researcher and Lecturer, France) & Virginie Rachmulh (Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques (GRET), France): Les politiques de résorption de l’habitat informel à Phnom Penh, efficacité et limites de l’influence des réseaux et organisations internationales

16.00

Francesca Campagnoli  (SOAS, London University, UK): JUB/Uplink in post-tsunami Aceh: achievements, potentials, limitations.

17.00

Urmi Sengupta (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne UK) & Sujeet Sharma (Bievenue Research Centre, Nepal): No longer Sukumbasis: Challenges in relocating squatters with special reference to Kirtipur Housing Project, Kathmandu

17.30

Austine Ng’ombe, Ramin Keivani (Department of Real Estate and Construction, Oxford Brookes University, UK): The role of grassroots organisations in fostering local communities’ access to land: lessons from the Copperbelt and North Western Provinces of Zambia

11.45

Julie Crespin (ACTOGETHER UGANDA, Uganda): Successful tools and methods that can support grassroots-led development in urban areas: Building a federation of the urban poor in Uganda

12.15

Adrian Atkinson (TU Berlin, Germany): Grassroots Action to Address Emerging Sustainability Threats to Cities of the South

15.00

Wellington Didibhuku Thwala & Ogunfiditimi Olaosebikan (University of Johannesburg, South Africa): Experiences and Challenges of Community Participation in the Delivery of Houses through People’s Housing Process (PHP) Scheme in South Africa: A Case Study of Gauteng Province

15.30

Alonso Ayala Alemán (Faculty of Spatial Planning, Universität Dortmund, Germany): Community Organisations, Misiones and Integration of Barrios of Caracas, Venezuela – The Case of the CAMEBA Upgrading Project

16.00

Michaela Hordijk (Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands): Peruvian Participatory Budgeting: Configurations of power – opportunities for change?

17.00

Caren Levy (Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK): Defining Collective Strategic Action led by Civil Society Organisations:  the case of CLIFF, India