Typologies of Institutionalised Co-production of Water and Sanitation Services in the Urban South (TYCO-WSS)
Infos
TYCO-WSS (Typologies of Institutionalised Co-production of Water and Sanitation Services in the Urban South - 2016-2020) is a research project funded by the French-speaking Belgian Research Agency and promoted by the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Université de Liège. It aims at making a substantial contribution on the debate on sustainable urban service provision in the Global South by questioning the impact of water supply and sanitation (WSS) co-production on city’s production mechanisms, both in terms of governance and long-term sustainability.
Developing strategies to increase people’ access to WSS in the cities of the Global South is crucial for sustainability objectives. Accordingly, interest in service co-production is growing at the levels of both scientific research and development cooperation (e.g., the United Nations Policy Papers on Urban Services and Technology). Co-production is intended as the regular long-term collaboration between state actors and communities during some or all the phases of the service delivery cycle (planning, design, delivery and assessment). It can be considered as a complex practice made up of interactions between a managerial dimension (relationships between users, intermediaries and providers), a techno-environmental dimension (technical infrastructure and natural resource), and a spatial dimension (socio-spatial configuration of accessibility to the service).
Service co-production is increasingly appearing to be a valuable alternative for delivering WSS services to the urban poor, especially because it may improve equity and efficiency of provision, while also contributing to citizens’ empowerment and local governments’ effectiveness. However, it may also be subject to resource capture by elites and to management conflicts among groups, and lead to environmental decay, overexploitation of natural resources and urban fragmentation. It should therefore be acknowledged that co-production may raise social, environmental and economic issues, which have to be evaluated against sustainable urban service provision criteria.
By moving from this background, main questions that will be addressed during the seminar are the following:
- What are the relations between recurrent trajectories of WSS co-production and specific characters of urban and infrastructure development in the Global South?
- Under which circumstances coproduced socio-technological arrangements foster fair and affordable access to service and contribute to build different relations between urbanisation and the environment?
- Which are the factors that enhance the sustainability of co-produced services, in respect to economic viability, socio-spatial equity and environmental sustainability?
- Under which conditions the evolution of alternative co-produced services (made up of complementary technological configurations, unconventional practices and forms of service providers/users) co-evolve with more conventional infrastructure and management practices (e.g. WSS centralized network) toward more sustainable configurations?
- Which is the applicability and the relevance of the WSS co-production for sustainable urban agendas and international cooperation actions on WSS?
PROGRAMME
The seminar will be organized through a series of presentation sessions and a final roundtable.
TIME zone: CET – Central Europe Time
January 28, 2021 – Thursday
10:00 – 10:20
Opening
Luisa Moretto, ULB, Belgium
TYCO-WSS Project objective/approach/activities and Leading questions on co-production for the seminar
10:20 – 12:00
SESSION 1. The socio-technical and urban dimension of co-production
(Moderating/Platform management: Giuseppe Faldi; Taking notes for Q/A from the audience: Luisa Moretto)
Federica Natalia Rosati, ULg/ULB, Belgium
Incremental trajectories of WSS co-production in Hanoi and Cochabamba
Sylvy Jaglin, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Co-production and hybridization of electricity configurations in Sub-Saharan cities: a socio-technical approach
Discussion + Q&A
15:00 – 17:00
SESSION 2. The role of co-production in W&S infrastructure development
(Moderating/Platform management: Jacques Teller; Taking notes for Q/A from the audience: Federica Natalia Rosati)
Giuseppe Faldi, ULB, Belgium
The role of co-production in water and sanitation infrastructure development in Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam
Klaas Schwartz, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands
Tolerating Co-Production: Insights from a Water Utility in Kisumu, Kenya
Pascale Hofmann, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK
Sanitation co-production: insights from a simplified sewerage system in Dar es Salaam
Discussion + general Q&A
January 29, 2021 – Friday
10:00 – 12:00
SESSION 3. The role of citizens and the politics of co-production
(Moderating/Platform management: Luisa Moretto; Taking notes for Q/A from the audience: Giuseppe Faldi)
Federica Natalia Rosati, ULg/ULB, Belgium
Geoff Goodwin, London School of Economics, UK
Unpacking the Politics of Water Coproduction: Insights from Ecuador
Trui Steen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Perspectives on the role of citizens in the provision of public services: health care provision in Uganda and Ethiopia
Discussion + general Q&A
15:00 – 16:10
SESSION 4 – Inclusiveness, equity and sustainability of co-production
(Moderating/Platform management: Giuseppe Faldi; Taking notes for Q/A from the audience: Federica Natalia Rosati)
Giuseppe Faldi, ULB, Belgium
Few insights on the discourse of sustainability of co-production
Maria Rusca, Uppsala University, Sweden
Co-producing inclusive water services or uneven urban waterscapes?
Rhodante Ahlers, SOMO, the Netherlands
Discussion + general Q&A
16:20 – 16:40
Home Coffee Break
16:40 – 17:40
Final Round table around leading questions
Moderating: Jacques Teller, ULiege, Belgium
Discussants: Bram Verschuere, Ghent University, Belgium
Paola Alfaro-d’Alençon, TU Berlin, Germany
Marco Ranzato, Roma Tre University, Italy
Francesca Pilo’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Rémi de Bercegol, UMR PRODIG, CNRS, France
17:30 – 17:40
Concluding remarks
Luisa Moretto, ULB, Belgium
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Participants
TYCO-WSS project members and seminar organizers:
• Prof. Luisa Moretto, ULB - Universitè libre de Bruxelles
• Prof. Jacques Teller, ULg - University of Liege
• Dr. Giuseppe Faldi, ULB - Universitè libre de Bruxelles
• M. Arch. Federica Natalia Rosati, ULg - University of Liege / ULB - Universitè libre de Bruxelles
TYCO-WSS project partners:
• Prof. Tu Tong, NUCE - National University of Civil Engineering, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Prof. Thu Hương Thi Hoang, HUST Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Dr. Tesfaye Hailu, EiABC – Ethiopian Institute of Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• M.Arch. Israel Tesfu, EiABC – Ethiopian Institute of Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Prof. Gabriel Kassenga, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Dr. Anesi Mahenge, Ardhi University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Dr. Juan Cabrera, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Cochabamba, Bolivia
• Dr. Marco Ranzato, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
• M.Arch. Andrea Aragone, LATITUDE Platform for Urban Research and Design, Brussels, Belgium
International experts:
• Prof. Sylvy Jaglin, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
• Prof. Trui Steen, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Prof. Bram Verschuere, Ghent University, Belgium
• Prof. Jochen Monstadt, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• Prof. Klaas Schwartz, UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands
• Dr. Maria Rusca, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Dr. Geoff Goodwin, Department of International Development, London School of Economics, UK
• Dr. Rhodante Ahlers, SOMO, The Netherlands
• Dr. Pascale Hofmann, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL - University College London
• Dr. Rémi de Bercegol, UMR PRODIG, CNRS, France
• Dr. Paola Alfaro-d’Alençon, TU Berlin, Germany
• Dr. Francesca Pilo’, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
