<p>Urbanisation processes in developing countries are resulting in a rapidly increasing proportion of habitants living in urban slum areas. In the international development debate the lack of tenure security for slum dwellers in developing countries is considered to be an essentially important problem. Within the framework of the UN Millennium Development Programme the necessity of efforts towards increased tenure security for marginalised urban residents was agreed upon. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the overall progress towards improved living conditions for slum area residents is showing the least positive results. This paper investigates the occurrence of activities in the region which show an ambition of improving tenure security for people living in urban slum areas. It does so by examining cases submitted from African countries to the UN-HABITAT database of best international practices in the improvement of living conditions.</p>

Urbanisation processes in developing countries are resulting in a rapidly increasing proportion of habitants living in urban slum areas. In the international development debate the lack of tenure security for slum dwellers in developing countries is considered to be an essentially important problem. Within the framework of the UN Millennium Development Programme the necessity of efforts towards increased tenure security for marginalised urban residents was agreed upon. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the overall progress towards improved living conditions for slum area residents is showing the least positive results. This paper investigates the occurrence of activities in the region which show an ambition of improving tenure security for people living in urban slum areas. It does so by examining cases submitted from African countries to the UN-HABITAT database of best international practices in the improvement of living conditions.

This thesis seeks to review Urban Sustainability in cities of the Developing South within the broader spectrum of Sustainable Development. Notably, the Developing South has for many years struggled to embrace Sustainability in its general terms: in part, because of the fragile institutions that cannot be counted on to uphold sustainability in the truest sense of the word; and in part because of the numerous challenges that often distract any attempt to prioritize Sustainable Development. Sustainability then becomes an option in the midst of other options, rather than an option that should affect all other options. Narrowing it down further to matters urban makes it even stranger in a host of cities across the Developing South. It is against this backdrop that this study seeks to examine in depth the contextual challenges that have invariably stood in the way of Sustainable Development across the Developing South. While it may not be practically possible in a four-month study to offer outright solutions or recommendations that could address these challenges in entirety, this study nevertheless has endeavoured to stay true to the realities that are often ignored whenever challenges of Sustainable Development are mentioned on global platforms. Among these realities is the reality of slum presence in most cities of the Developing South that existentially complicates any equation for urban sustainability ever formulated to provide a way out or forward for these cities. State governments understand this too well, and so do Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and international organizations alike involved in the crusade for improved living conditions for city resident, and in particular slum residents. Yet the State governments have never been as resolute in their quest for slum free cities. The question then remains: exactly what are the sustainable approaches for this noble cause? While the State governments have over the years insisted on enforcing conventional approaches (that include forced evictions, relocations and/ or redevelopment); one international network, however, thinks and responds differently to slum situations. The network is Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI). It is considerably this network of slum dwellers and their undeniably innovative approach to urban sustainability and inclusivity that largely frames the direction and general content of this study. Specifically, the methodology adopted in the study is one of a Case study - which in this case is SDI; and two separate Cases, namely Railway Relocation Action Plan (RAP) in Nairobi, Kenya and slum Re-blocking project in Joe Slovo, Cape Town, South Africa, respectively - as typical cases that captures in large part the enormous contribution that SDI is making towards inclusive and sustainable cities in the Developing South. In the discussion part, however, the study introduces Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) as a comparative methodology to SDI’s approach. SSM particularly benefits from LUMAS model and Social Learning – both key components that potentially reserve a dynamic capacity to enriching SDI’s approach as a future reference methodology for urban sustainability and inclusivity.

The study is shortly presenting the urbanization-saga and the human settlement progression. It then proceeds to identify different types of tenure and the pertained definitions as such. The thesis will review and assess the strategies for Secure Tenure provided by UN-Habitat on an international and national level, as well as analyze the implementation tools brought forward. Diverse tenure policies and tools will be evaluated with an anchoring in the case study of Malawi and its National Land Policy and the implementation of the same.

This dissertation presents the design and case study application of a participatory decision-making support tool for appropriate safe water systems development in marginalized low-income communities of the global South. The tool focuses on the resolution of two key design decisions: 1) selecting the appropriate level of application (i.e. household or community level) for a safe water system; and 2) selecting an appropriate water treatment technology (or technologies). The tool breaks the process down into four stages. First are pre-implementation steps which develop a contextualized, baseline understanding of the local community. Second is community-based field research, including focus groups and key informant/informal interviews, to investigate the two key design questions by exploring local preferences, capacities, and circumstances with community-members, government officers, NGO workers, and other stakeholders. Third are analytical steps to integrate information from baseline, informal, and primary research to generate recommendations on the two key design questions. This includes a comparative analysis of household and community level systems; a technology feasibility flowchart; performance assessments of technological alternatives with respect to appropriate technology criteria; and a multi-factor analysis to integrate information from the preceding analytical steps. Fourth are community forums in which further participatory action and research is planned on the basis of the recommendations emerging from the tool. Through these steps, the decision-making support tool guides implementing organizations through the stages of safe water systems design and planning in a manner that centres local people in the process. The tool weaves together several theoretical and methodological strands including humanitarian engineering, post-normal science, appropriate technology, participatory development, grounded theory, engineering decision-making, and water treatment engineering. The case study application of the decision-making support tool was conducted in a marginalized peri-urban community called Mylai Balaji Nagar in Chennai, India. This indicated that a household level approach is more appropriate for the case study community and that the TATA Swach filter, alum coagulation with chlorination, or boiling, in order of decreasing suitability, may be appropriate technologies for household application in the case study community. / Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Department: School of Engineering Advisor: Hall, Kevin / International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

[pt] A população moradora das favelas cria estratégias para sua manutenção nesses locais. Longe de afirmar que a informalidade seria uma solução para todos os problemas da favela, a presente dissertação compreende esta prática como funcional. Contrapondo a isto, a Regularização Fundiária é entendida como a legalização das propriedades das áreas informais. Entretanto, o que se vê, na maioria das favelas cariocas que receberam estes projetos, é a entrega de um título fragilizado, que não garante a permanência da população, isto quando há efetivamente a entrega do título. O tema proposto por esta dissertação é a Regularização Fundiária em contraste com a informalidade urbana encontrada nas favelas cariocas. Analisamos a informalidade urbana como um ordenamento diferenciado no meio urbano, portanto, ela não deve ser encarada como um problema que pode ser solucionado pela Regularização Fundiária. Para compreender a inserção da Regularização Fundiária como Programa governamental nas favelas cariocas, destacamos três favelas como campo de pesquisa: Rocinha, Cantagalo e Acari (Vila Rica e Vila Esperança), todas com inserção governamental e desfechos distintos. Assim, para alcançar o objetivo central desta dissertação, buscamos o aprofundamento nos temas principais por meio da pesquisa bibliográfica, do levantamento documental sobre os programas de regularização fundiária e a realização de entrevistas com lideranças comunitárias, gestores dos programas locais de regularização fundiária e agentes governamentais. Buscamos aprofundar a temática da Regularização Fundiária e as suas variadas vertentes, observando os desafios enfrentados para garantir à população moradora das favelas o direito à cidade. / [en] The slum leaving population create strategies for their maintenance in these environments. Far from stating that informality would be a solution to all slum problems, the present dissertation understands it as a functional practice. Contrary to it, land regularization is understood as of the properties legalization from informal areas. However, what is seen in most slums in Rio de Janeiro that received these projects, is a fragile deed delivered that does not guarantee the population permanence, when, in fact, there is an actual delivery. The theme proposed by this dissertation is Land Regularization in contrast to the urban informality found in the Rio de Janeiro slums. It has been analyzed urban informality as a differentiated urban planning, therefore, it should not be seen as a problem that can be solved by land regularization. In order to understand the inclusion of land regularization as a government program in Rio de Janeiro slums, three slums were studied as field of research: Rocinha, Cantagalo and Acari (Vila Rica and Vila Esperança), all with governmental insertion and different outcomes. Thus, in order to reach the main objective, we seek to deepen the main themes through bibliographical research, documentary survey of land regularization programs and interviews with community leaders, managers of local land regularization programs and government agents. We aim to deepen the theme of land regularization and its various aspects, observing the challenges faced to guarantee the population living in the slums the right to the city.

[pt] O presente trabalho visa analisar, à luz da teoria do desenvolvimento maturacional infantil e da tendência antissocial de Winnicott, o comportamento antissocial e delinquente de crianças e adolescentes, moradores de uma favela, localizada na Zona Sul da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Eles foram atendidos pelo serviço de psicologia clínica oferecido pelo projeto social de uma certa ONG. Tais crianças também têm em comum a violência, em suas várias manifestações, incidindo sobre suas vidas. Inicialmente foi descrito o local, o projeto em seu contexto, bem como as condições de atendimento. Foi utilizado o método de estudo de casos múltiplos em psicanálise, com o objetivo de obter uma melhor e mais ampla compreensão das dimensões psicossociais que o atendimento como um todo, pôde oferecer a essas crianças e adolescentes. O projeto seria um lugar onde a subjetividade desses jovens, marcada pelo sofrimento psíquico, a de-privação e as inúmeras formas de violência, encontram um espaço de escuta, acolhimento e uma possibilidade de (re)construção pela via da criatividade. / [en] The purpose of this study is to analyze, under Winnicott s theoretical standpoint of infant development and antisocial tendency, the antisocial and delinquent behaviors of infant and teenage residents of a slum (favela) located in the southern zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. These children and teenagers - all treated by the clinical psychology service offered by a social project of a nonprofit organization - have in common the violence, under its several manifestations, touching their lives. A multiple case study method in psychoanalysis was used aiming to obtain an improved and broader comprehension of the psychosocial dimensions that the treatment as a whole could offer these children and teenagers. The project was held in a location where the subjectivity of these youths - marked by psychic suffering, deprivation, and several forms of violence - found a space of listening, welcoming, and the possibility of (re)construction through creativity.

Esta dissertação faz uma reflexão sobre as formas construídas na arquitetura da favela, através da poética e da retórica da collage, e tem como objeto de estudo a Vila do Chocolatão, uma favela situada no centro da cidade de Porto Alegre. A collage se insere como critério de análise, e como linguagem que a representa e simultaneamente lhe possibilita ser representada. Na Vila do Chocolatão encontram-se características semelhantes àquelas aplicadas a collage nas artes, como: inimage, rollage, décollage, reliefs, cadavre–exquis, acumulação, objet trouvé, ready-made. Além disso, collage e favela partilham das mesmas caracterisitcas de transitoriedade, fragmentação, heterogeneidade e sobreposição; nelas materiais e corpos se unem como representação social. / This dissertation intends to make a reflection about the constructed forms in the slum quarter architecture, seen for the poetical and the rhetoric of collage; and has as study object the Vila do Chocolatão, a slum quarter situated in downtown Porto Alegre. Collage is inserted as analysis criterion, language that represents it and be represented simultaneously. Similar characteristic to those collage applied in arts are found at Vila do Chocolatão, such as: inimage, rollage, décollage, reliefs, cadavre-exquis, accumulation, objet trouvé, ready-made. Besides, collage and slum quarter share the same characteristics of transitoriness, fragmantation, heterogeneity and overlapping; in them materials and bodies are joined as social representation.

AGUIAR, Deiziane Pinheiro. Marcado para morrer: moralidades e socialidades das crianças na comunidade do Serviluz (Fortaleza-CE) . 2017. 163f. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Sociologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-31T11:43:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_dpaguiar.pdf: 1254573 bytes, checksum: 9d0600ed32d05aafa654877dd6cf5a50 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-07-31T15:10:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_dpaguiar.pdf: 1254573 bytes, checksum: 9d0600ed32d05aafa654877dd6cf5a50 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-31T15:10:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_dpaguiar.pdf: 1254573 bytes, checksum: 9d0600ed32d05aafa654877dd6cf5a50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / O objetivo dessa dissertação é descrever e analisar como a situação e a condição de indivíduos “marcados para morrer” (ameaçados de morte) afeta as socialidades das crianças moradoras do Serviluz, tendo em vista que, muitas delas perderam seus parentes em decorrência da violência letal na favela. A interface com a antropologia da criança, a sociologia da infância, além da sociologia e antropologia da moral conduzem essa investigação. A problemática teórica central ou a generalidade teórica do objeto de pesquisa concentra-se no que estou chamando de sujeitos indesejáveis. Jovens são ameaçados de morte nas favelas e periferias, moralmente condenados, rechaçados da sua rede de relações sociais e informados (estigmatizados e condenados) como sujeitos matáveis ou como vidas descartáveis. A articulação dessa investigação socioantropológica se dá pela perspectiva da agência das crianças, das moralidades e das percepções que elas possuem sobre os sujeitos indesejáveis. Além disso, o “marcado para morrer” é compreendido aqui como um dispositivo moral extremamente relevante para as socialidades e a construção moral das crianças do Serviluz. O trabalho de campo etnográfico é a base desta pesquisa, a partir de conversas informais com crianças e adultos, conversações gravadas, roda de conversação e brincadeiras com as crianças. Através disso foi possível construir as interações em campo e a produção de dados empíricos.

[pt] A presente pesquisa objetivou estudar o ensino médio (EM) em duas áreas do município do Rio de Janeiro através da relação de jovens e gestores de escolas frente às questões das oportunidades educacionais do ensino médio. A pesquisa parte do conceito de Geografia de Oportunidades (Galster e Killen, 1995) para investigar os aspectos objetivos (oferta de recursos educacionais) e subjetivos (valores, expectativas e aspirações) das oportunidades educacionais. Inicialmente a geografia objetiva das escolas de EM da cidade do Rio de Janeiro foi analisada com bases nos dados do Censo Escolar 2005, e foram identificadas duas regiões próximas às favelas caracterizadas simultaneamente por desigualdades entre oferta e demanda e pela proximidade com importantes centros comerciais. Neste sentido, foi selecionado um conjunto de escolas para ser realizado o trabalho de campo. A metodologia envolveu visitas às escolas, observações, entrevistas informais e semiestruturadas e aplicação de questionários. Os resultados indicam que a geografia objetiva das oportunidades não pode ser tomada como inerte, pois sobre ela incidem forças do campo como determinações políticas e sociais capazes de criar novas dinâmicas que também interferem na (r)elaboração da geografia subjetiva das oportunidades entre os indivíduos. / [en] The current research aimed to study High School in two areas of Rio de Janeiro city through the relationship of youth and schoolmasters facing the issue of educational oportunities of High School. The research departs from the concept of Geography of Opportunity (Galster e Killen, 1995) to investigate the objective (offer of educational resources) e subjective aspects (values, expectations e aspirations) of educational opportunities. Firstly, the Geography of Opportunity of the schools of High School of Rio de Janeiro city was analyzed having as basys the data from Censo Escolar 2005, in which were identified two areas near slums marked simultaneously by relative inequality between supply and demand as well as by the proximity to major shopping centers. In this sense, a number of schools was selected so that a fied work could be carried out. The methodology involved visits to schools, observations, informal and semi-structured interviews, and the application of questionnaires. The results indicate that the geography of objective of opportunity can not be taken as inert, because on which focuses force fields as political and social determinations that are able to create new dynamics that as well interfere in the development of the subjective geography of opportunity among individuals.