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Mbarara, Uganda: An informal community uses collective savings to deal with Covid-19

06 Apr 2021

The slum dwellers in Mbarara city, Uganda are using collective savings to deal with the global pandemic and investing in new businesses. Sarah Nandudu reports This is the fortieth in…

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Predicting Covid-19 Contagion Risk Hotspots

25 Mar 2021

[caption id="attachment_13126" align="alignnone" width="450"] Dharavi, India. Photo credit: SDI[/caption] This article was originally published by Cities Alliance. A new initiative on the ground in eight SDI-affiliated cities,…

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Enhancing the Resilience of Slum Communities to Overcome the Covid-19 Crisis

25 Feb 2021

[caption id="attachment_13337" align="alignleft" width="450"] Youth training in the fabrication of hand washing facilities (People’s Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia)[/caption] …

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Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

01 Feb 2021

Photo: Know Your City TV Nigeria This article was originally published in Voices for a Living Planet, a special edition Living Planet Report 2020 by WWF. By Sheela Patel (ED…

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Zimbabwe's Urban Resilience Programme

23 Oct 2020

Project Background Dialogue on Shelter, the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation (ZHPF) and the Zimbabwe Young People’s Federation ZYPF) are part of a consortium of non-governmental organisations implementing the Urban Social…

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