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Jukur, Smruti, Wiltgen Georgi, Neele, Tolhurst, Rachel 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3005-6641, Whittaker, Lana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4133-3827, Ozano, Kim and Rao, Vinod Kumar
(2023)
'Catalysing effective social accountability systems through community participation'. Cities & Health, Vol 7, Issue 6, pp. 982-990.
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Abstract
Worldwide, infrastructure expansion and visions of ‘slum-free cities’ displace people living in informal settlements. Without community participation in these processes and accountability mechanisms in place’ such displacement can adversely impact people’s health and well-being. This piece outlines SPARC’s (Society For Promotion of Area Resource Centres, SPARC is an NGO based in India promoting action of organised communities of urban poor to negotiate with the state on accessing tenure security, housing, sanitation and civic services) experience promoting community participation among residents of a relocation site in Ahmedabad, fostering coalescence, and rebuilding the dismantled community organisation to foster social accountability systems. The experience has reinforced learnings from previous work that poorly planned relocation increases the risk of impoverishment and negatively impacts residents’ social relations, which severely affects their ability to come together to demand social accountability. As such, we had to innovate our engagement strategies to rebuild trust and confidence and strengthen community participation and organisation, which we share here.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence (where permitted by UKRI, ‘Open Government Licence’ or ‘CC BY-ND public copyright licence may be stated instead) to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising. Anonymised data associated with the research can be accessed by contacting arise@lstmed.ac.uk |
| Subjects: | WA Public Health > WA 100 General works WA Public Health > WA 20.5 Research (General) |
| Faculty: Department: | Clinical Sciences & International Health > International Public Health Department |
| Digital Object Identifer (DOI): | https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2240478 |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Pubrouter |
| Depositing User: | JISC Pubrouter |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2023 15:05 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2023 14:42 |
| URI: | https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/23165 |
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