30 Mar 2012

Photo: Gauteng Province Department Local Government and Housing **Cross-posted from the CORC Blog** By FEDUP & uTshani Fund  The Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP) and the uTshani Fund are...

19 Mar 2012

By Skye Dobson, SDI Secretariat In a previous piece on the Makerere/SDI partnership in Uganda, Noah Schermbrucker, questioned the sources of knowledge that guide urban planning. In this second installment...

14 Mar 2012

By Celine D'Cruz, SDI Secretariat  Zabaleen is Arabic for Garbage People.  Our visit to Cairo in late January 2012 was planned on the invitation of Ezzat Naem Gunn, a leader...

07 Mar 2012

By Noah Schermbrucker, SDI Secretariat “In communities we know the number of settlements, services and origins of the people. We know how they spend their money and how they would...

01 Mar 2012

**Cross-Posted from CORC blog** By Walter Fieuw, CORC On Thursday 23 February 2012, while South Africa were debating the implications of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget speech, another group was...