Alexandre Apsan Frediani, BA (Hons) (Cent Lanc) PhD (Oxford Brookes)

Postgraduate Teaching Assistant: MSc DAP

Development planner specialising in squatter settlement upgrading policies and participatory approaches to development. He has produced the documentary Open Wound, which explores the impacts of a World Bank-funded squatter upgrading project in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Areas of expertise include human development, housing, urban development, participation and the Capability Approach. He is also the coordinator of the thematic group on participatory methods for the Human Development and Capability Association. Alex is visiting lecturer on the Masters programmes in Development and Emergency Practices at CENDEP, Oxford Brookes University, and Human Development and Food Security at Roma Tre University.

Research and Consultancy

Nov 08 – Jan 09: Consultant - Research for the UNDP Brazil using participatory methods for the prioritization of needs in the 10 municipalities in Brazil with lowest Human Development Indexes.

Blog of the field trip: http://www.podemudar.wordpress.com
Web Resource: http://www.brasilpontoaponto.org.br

May – Oct 08: Project Manager and Facilitator - Workshop on Participatory Methods and the Capability Approach. Three-months project, involving training on participatory methods and capability approach for researchers and consultants and an evaluation of the work of an NGO Project Why working with children in informal settlements in New Delhi, India. Funded by Human Development and Capability Association and UCL.

Web Resource: Webpage of the HDCA thematic group on participatory methods:
http://www.capabilityapproach.com/

Blog of the workshop: http://www.capabilityapproach.com/blogs/participatorymethods/

Mar – Jul 08: Project coordinator and Lecturer. “Water & sanitation services: Challenges and lessons in rapidly urbanising countries An executive exposure programme for local government staff”. Five day training programme with 30 participants from 13 Commonwealth Countries. University of Legon, Ghana. Funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat.

June – Sept 07: Research Consultant – University of Florence: Coordinating a research on social networks and elaborating a micro-credit project in the municipality of Vitoria do Mearim, in the state of Maranhão, Northeast of Brazil.

2003 - 2007: PhD Department of Planning – Oxford Brookes University Research Title: Housing Freedom, Amartya Sen and Urban Development Policies –Squatter Settlement Upgrading in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. Supervisor: Professor Roger Zetter. Partial funding awarded by FURS.
Web Resource: Clip of documentary Open Wound, which investigates the impacts of the World Bank funded squatter settlement upgrading programme in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t3A29lAjFY

Publications

Forthcoming, Sustainable Livelihoods Framework for Water and Sanitation Services, in Alam, M. and Davila, J., 'Water and Sanitation: Challenges and Lessons in Rapidly Urbanising Countries' (working tittle). Commonwealth Secretariat, London.

2008, Planning for Freedoms: The Contribution of Sen’s Capability Approach to Development Practice.' Practical Action Briefings'.

2007, The World Bank and Urban Policies, From Housing Sector to ‘Sustainable Cities’ , in Balbo, M. (ed.) 'International Aid Ideologies and Policies in the Urban Sector'. 7th N-Aerus Conference, Department of Planning, Università Iuav di Venezia. [PDF]
http://www.n-aerus.net/web/sat/workshops/2006/papers/frediani.pdf

2007, Amartya Sen, the World Bank, and the Redress of Urban Poverty: A Brazilian Case Study. 'Journal of Human Development', vol. 8, n. 1, pp.133-152. Reviewed by ID21 urban development: http://www.id21.org/urban/u7af1g1.html

2007, A Participatory Approach to Choosing Dimensions. 'Maitreyee Newsletter'. February 2007. [PDF]. http://www.capabilityapproach.com/pubs/Maitreyee7_February_07.pdf.

2006, Participatory Methods and the Capability Approach.' HDCA Briefings'. [PDF]. http://www.capabilityapproach.com/pubs/Briefing_on_PM_and_CA2.pdf.

Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English

Email: a.frediani@ucl.ac.uk