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Covid-19: Fostering Community Resilience Amid the Pandemic

03 Sep 2021

*This article was originally posted on the Cities Alliance website here. Covid-19 inflicted new levels of despair on residents of informal settlements in developing countries. Over a year later,…

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What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change

24 Jun 2021

This article was originally published by IIED. By Sheela Patel, founder director of SPARC India and co-founder of SDI This blog draws mostly on the experiences of SDI's federations,…

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What women want: how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of urban poor women

18 May 2021

Sheela Patel discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of women living in informal settlements and tenements. Women members of informal saving groups and of…

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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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Mitigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Informal ...

19 Jun 2020

The following is an account from the National Slum Dweller Federation of Uganda (NSDFU) and ACTogether...

Uganda

Covid-19

Community Based Organisations are Key to Covi ...

17 Jun 2020

In this article, which originally appeared on the Sanitation & Water for All website, one of...

Sierra Leone

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Zimbabwe Federation Response to Covid-19 ...

12 Jun 2020

On behalf of the the The Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation and Dialogue on Shelter Trust, SDI presents the...

Zimbabwe

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Community-led COVID-19 Response: Philippine� ...

09 Jun 2020

By Rolando A. Tuazon and Theresa Carampatana Originally featured on the IIED blog: https://www.iied.org/community-led-covid-19-response-work-philippines-homeless-peoples-federation Based on...

Philippines

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Sierra Leone SDI Alliance Response to Covid-1 ...

04 Jun 2020

[video width="640" height="352" mp4="https://sdinet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WhatsApp-Video-2020-06-02-at-4.04.05-PM.mp4"][/video] Nearly three months since the first case of Covid-19 was...

Sierra Leone

Covid-19

Covid-19 in a Mumbai Slum: An interview with ...

02 Jun 2020

Last week, SPARC India spoke to Shamim Banu Salim Sheikh (age 55), a member of Mahila...

India

Women

Tanzania SDI Alliance Response to Covid-19 ...

29 May 2020

On behalf of the the Tanzania SDI Alliance, SDI presents the work to fight COVID-19 in Tanzania. The...

Tanzania

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Malawi SDI Alliance Response to Covid-19 ...

27 May 2020

On behalf of the the Malawi Federation of the Urban & Rural Poor and The Centre for Community...

Malawi

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South Africa Response to Covid-19 ...

21 May 2020

[caption id="attachment_13089" align="alignnone" width="660"] On behalf of the the South African SDI Alliance, SDI presents the work...

South Africa

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Covid-19: Fostering Community Resilience Amid the Pandemic

What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change

What women want: how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of urban poor women

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

Predicting Covid-19 Contagion Risk Hotspots

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Covid-19: Fostering Community Resilience Amid the Pandemic

What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change

What women want: how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of urban poor women

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

Predicting Covid-19 Contagion Risk Hotspots

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