ABSTRACT
A meaningful participation process is expected to imply, as a minimum, comprehensive and accurate information provided to the affected residents, and a fair and inclusive consultation process. It is thus directly related to the issue of knowledge management. The first two in-situ rehabilitation projects initiated by the Delhi development authority (DDA) for squatter settlements occupying its land, the stalled Tehkhand project and the ongoing kathputli colony project, provide cases in point to examine these questions. According to Baud, governments tend to give scientifically codified knowledge a privileged role in decision-making. The planned upgrading of Europe informal settlement was no exception. A community-based mapping project was instituted as part of the chance to sustain research programme in ocean drive in informal settlement. The centrality of knowledge issues in processes of social mobilisation was evidenced in how the lack of information and transparency was the primary reason that communities along the river Rimac chose to organise themselves in 2009.
