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| Paper authors | Anna Walnycki |
| In panel on | A world without camps? Understanding the potential for refugees and IDPs to achieve well-being and decent livelihoods in urban areas. |
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Abstract
Spaces for citizen engagement in city-level planning processes have expanded in recent decades, as a result of grassroots efforts for the recognition of informal settlements, or stemming from externally-funded efforts to promote local democracy. However, this is not an established trend in cities that have come under the challenges of displacement, and limited urban planning. In many contexts, bringing in citizens to the discussion table is new, and opportunities for refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to engage in local processes even more infrequent.
In response to this, the Protracted Displacement in an Urban World project has launched a work package dedicated to participatory planning in four urban centres - Kabul, Nairobi, Addis, and Amman - each marked by displacement. The aim is to support the establishment of Participatory Planning Forums that include a range of municipal actors (inclusive of city stakeholders, humanitarian actors and displacement affected communities). Their principal aim is to promote collaboration and the co-production of interventions that reflect the needs of the displaced and of the urban population. It is an opportunity to bring together humanitarian responses, urban planning processes and durable solutions to displacement, in an inclusive fashion.
During this session we reflect on the first Participatory Forums held in Jalalabad and Nairobi in 2021. In the former, building on a dialogue between IDP women, academics, and city practitioners to support policy processes; and in the latter, building on existing relationships between organised slum dweller federations and the state, in the broader context of devolution in Kenya.
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