ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to conceptualize the workings of power and how the co-production process embodies mechanisms to ensure collaboration and low-level conflict in settlement interventions in global South cities. Planning in the global South has been subjected to many debates which have established that there is an urgent need to rethink the ways planning is practised. The global South presents a unique moment in time and history and planning needs to be attuned to that unique context, the context of diversity, changing governance dynamics, rapid urbanization and a young population. The chapter examines the use of co-production concepts and strategies by citizen groups and social movement organizations to enable individual members and their associations to secure “effective relations with state institutions” that address both immediate basic needs and enable them to negotiate for greater benefits and address power imbalance during relations.
