Communities and communication
building urban partnerships
- ISBN: 9781853395987
- Editorial: Zed Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2005
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Urban Management
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 192
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book compares three great cities of the South, Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro, to explore how local government interacts with the communities of the cities, and to discover how communication can lead to partnership. The authors explore what partnership means, arguing that it is a relationship based on an agreement to share both benefits and risks. Partnership thus depends upon a high level of trust. Trust depends upon understanding. Understanding depends upon communication -- the ability to transfer comprehension and information. Riley and Wakely consider how far clearly focused NGOs can geneate an awarenesss within and between low-income communities and local governments for new approaches to communication and capacity-building.
