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Best practices in practice : critical reflections on international cooperation and participatory urban development in Cairo's informal areas (Egypt)
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Piffero, Elena (2010) Best practices in practice : critical reflections on international cooperation and participatory urban development in Cairo's informal areas (Egypt). Universitas Forum, Vol.2 (No.1). ISSN 2070-6790.
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Abstract
Praised as the solution for emancipating poor and marginalised groups and for fostering good governance at the local level, participation has emerged in recent decades as the feature sine qua non of development interventions. But how feasible is it to promote participatory forms of development in authoritarian contexts such as post-Socialist Egypt, where patronage networks permeate the whole process of socio-political negotiation? Is it possible to overcome the anti-participatory attitude of governmental authorities and civil society organisations alike? Searching for an answer, this study explores a participatory urban development programme sponsored in Cairo's informal areas (Egypt) by the German Technical Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit henceforth GTZ). Both contextual elements connected to the Egyptian state-society relation and contingent factors linked to the planning and implementation of the programme seem to have affected negatively the success of the development initiative in its emancipating aims.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Universitas Forum | ||||
Publisher: | United Nations * Office for Project Services (U N O P S) | ||||
ISSN: | 2070-6790 | ||||
Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.2 | ||||
Number: | No.1 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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