Monwabisi Park Informal Settlement: Hybrid Governance, Participatory Planning, Organisational Culture and Evolutionary, Open-Ended Land Tenure Records Development
Michael Barry
University of Calgary
The presentation covers hybrid governance, organisational culture and the evolutionary
development of land records in the Monwabisi Park informal settlement in Cape Town South
Africa. Monwabisi Park is a community record system in an informal settlement where an NGO, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU), engaged in a participatory development
programme with community based organisations (CBOs), the primary one being the local branch of the South African National Civics Association (SANCO). Hybrid governance often occurs in sub-Saharan peri-urban communities, where de facto governance arrangements involve both state and non-state agencies. Risks to recognising hybrid governance
arrangements include non-state actors can be more oppressive, coercive, illegitimate forces than a tyrannical state. That said, hybrid governance may be inescapable, and it is a situation that needs to be managed.
Event: FIG Commission 7 Annual Meeting 2020
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