Urban planning in Banda Aceh: supporting local actors after the tsunami Rahayu Yoseph-Paulus, Victoria Maynard, Elizabeth Parker, David Garcia Working Paper Urban Keywords: October 2017 Urban planning, local government, humanitarian crises, Indonesia, capacity building About the authors Produced by IIED’s Human Settlements Rahayu Yoseph-Paulus is a researcher, planner and government Group officer in the Regional Development Planning Agency (Bappeda) The Human Settlements Group works to reduce poverty and of Buton Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Her improve health and housing conditions in the urban centres of research focuses on current and emergent policy approaches Africa, Asia and Latin America. It seeks to combine this with to address adaptation at the local government level, especially promoting good governance and more ecologically sustainable through participatory approaches that foster effective and inclusive patterns of urban development and rural-urban linkages. participation of local government and civil society organisations.
[email protected] Acknowledgements Victoria Maynard trained as an architect and has worked for organisations such as UN-Habitat and the International Federation This paper was funded by the Urban Crises Learning Fund. Any of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since becoming oversights or generalisations are entirely the responsibility of the involved in post-disaster reconstruction following the Indian Ocean authors. The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution tsunami. She is currently completing a PhD at University College of Diane Archer and Bruno Dercon for their generous and London, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Great Britain, constructive feedback on earlier versions of this working paper. where her research focuses on decision-making by the Philippine This working paper is part of a wider research project.