Postdoctoral Researcher on Inclusive Governance for Resilient Indonesian Slums

You will be working on an inventory of current policies and governance instruments relevant for socio-ecological resilience in the three regions, including on situation-based environmental problems, flooding, water quality, water stress, and other livelihood relevant factors. Methods are desk research on policy documents, observation, focus groups and interviews and a baseline survey. You will analyse the roles of centralised and decentralised government, market actors and civil society (NGO's, neighbourhood organisations, community leaders) in water and environment-related policies. Furthermore, you will detect the underlying causes of aggravated deprivation in slums, for instance by investigating effects of privatising water supply, changes in climate, changes in population, migration, declining biodiversity, and changes in human-nature relationships.
Thereafter, you will zoom in on the practices of collaborative governance in the case areas, discussing matters of inclusion, trust in policies, community autonomy versus dependencies and compliance, levels of participation and self-regulatory mechanisms of communities.

On the basis of your findings, you will conduct research on the possible situation improvement and the role of change agents in promoting socio-ecological resilience in slums. You will draw lessons for identifying and facilitating change agents and good practices, also in light of improving the relationship between slum communities and policy makers. You will evaluate what policy instruments were more or less effective. Finally, you will envision the region's future and prospects.

Based on your findings, and further studies of inclusive and collaborative governance, a roadmap will be designed for inclusive governance, including various steps towards enhancing well-being and resilience. Your work will contribute to knowledge sharing, learning materials and capacity building for the investigated cases as well as more generally for resilience in slum areas.