livelihoods perspective on incremental housing: haiti and...

Livelihoods perspective on Incremental Housing:Haiti and Lessons from MSTB – Brazil.

Alexandre Apsan FredianiDevelopment Planning UnitUniversity College Londona.frediani@ucl.ac.uk

Mission:COOPHabitatSanto Domingo

Main Objective:

Past disaster situations have shown thatpeople’s based initiatives for reconstructionthat draw on existing grassrootsmovements and local networks are themost effective for producing appropriatereconstruction.

How is this done in practice?Who are these networks in Haiti?What do they need?What initiatives are underway?

Civil Society NetworkHaitian Platform for AlternativeDevelopmentPAPDA: www.papda.org

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Financial Social

Natural Political

Household Asset Hexagon

Policies,Processes

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e.g.Decentralization

StrategicPlanning

Privatization

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CommunityOutcomes

- LivelihoodBenefits

- ReducedVulnerability

-IncreasingFinancingCapacity

- BetterDecisionMakingCapacity

ODI (2003)

Expanding the Room for Manoeuvre

Technical/behavioural dimension

Institutional/inter-organisational dimension

Strategic responsedimension

(Safier: 2002: 127-8)

Social relations/mobilisation dimension

Actor/agency

Action space

Action Space of planners and planning agencies: degree of freedom (room formanoeuvre) of actors to achieve change.

Objective: Scaling-up collective struggle of progressive forces in state, civilsociety and the market.

Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in 2009

• Nearly 4 million inhabitants

• 12% of total area availablefor development

• 4% Natural reserve

• 8% left between landdevelopers, state, churchand 104.878 homelesshouseholds.

• Within last 7 years: 300thousand new migrants

MSTB: Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahiahomeless movement of Bahia

• Formed 2003

• Objectives: Housing rightsand alternative approach tourban development

• 2009: 22 Occupations

• 26,000 households

• Occupations vary from 100-1,000 households

• Successes: Mobilization,raising visibility, avoidedevictions,

Architecture Sans Frontières – UK2009 Brazil Workshop

• Participatory Learning inAction:

– Train participants onStrategic ActionPlanning

– Engage with MSTB andsupport their work

• Three areas of analysis:

– Institutions

– House

– Community

• Escada: Occupation of 400 households in a total area of 24,000 sqm

Aspirations: House

SecurityDignityPolitization

House

House

COMUNITY PLANNING

COMUNITY PLANNING

Reflections

1. The Land Issue: MSTB expanding bargainingpower or sustaining unequal urban developmentprocesses? Synergy among actors achieved orMSTB used for land speculation?

Mission:COOPHabitatSanto Domingo

Main Objective:

Past disaster situations have shown thatpeople’s based initiatives for reconstructionthat draw on existing grassrootsmovements and local networks are themost effective for producing appropriatereconstruction.

How is this done in practice?Who are these networks in Haiti?What do they need?What initiatives are underway?

Civil Society NetworkHaitian Platform for AlternativeDevelopmentPAPDA: www.papda.org