Sylvy Jaglin visited the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Faculty of Architecture) to participate in the TYCO-WSS project workshop.
The TYCO-WSS research project (Typologies of Institutionalized Co-production of Water and Sanitation Services in the Urban South) aims to make a substantial contribution to the debate on sustainable urban service provision in the global South. To do so, it proposes an original approach to service provision that, first, focuses on alternative organizational arrangements to produce urban services, based on (in)formal state-community co-production practices and collaborations (institutionalized co-production – ICO). Second, it intends to systematically explore spatial, environmental, technological, and social conditions of the diversified typologies of institutionalized service co-production, and the implications they generate.
The general aim of this project is to understand and evaluate whether and under which circumstances co-production contributes to structural improvement in service delivery and in living conditions for city-dwellers (with respect to economic viability, environmental soundness and socio-spatial equity and cohesion). This general aim has been declined through two scientific activities:
- first, to identify and categorize typologies of institutionalized WSS co-production practices and,
- second, to explore and evaluate the effects of ICO practices through in-depth case studies.
This research aims to move away from a single case study approach to propose a comparative work aimed at meeting the project's objectives. Five cases are proposed to explore institutionalized co-production in the Global South: Addis Ababa, Cochabamba, Kinshasa, Hanoi, and Mumbai.