Presentation by Alissa Grenet, Intern from the student from Paris City Council University, France

Ms. Alissa Grenet, who is the intern from University of Paris, for  May 2018 to Aug 2018, presented her findings . She started her presentation by giving the context of her research and show the methodology used during this time. She mentioned that she had visited 12 settlements and met 68 SIC members, 12 Informal settlement inhabitants, 04  Ward councilors and  4 survey investigators  during her survey  and took interview/field notes and discussed about the empowerment process model.  She also had attended 2 municipal meetings during this period.  She hope that SIC members could get to know their rights, how to fill official forms, information on for toilets and getting  electricity for all inhabitants.

Through  Participatory Research as trigger to collective organisation and empowerment, she carried out the study. She shared the examples of SIC and Municipalities. She also discussed about the factors curbing empowerment such as  Lack of resources of public services, corruption and dysfunctional mechanism.

End of the presentations, she gave recommendations to the issues came up:

Create Safe space to discuss corruption, include people with activist experience,  work more closely with  communities and help them and  they could access information on their rights.

The presentation was carried out in a very remarkable way and participants also expressed their concern over the issue by raining questions and giving suggestions.