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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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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

Covid-19

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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Liberia Federation Response to Covid-19 ...

19 May 2020

On behalf of the Federation of Liberia Urban Poor Savers and YMCA Liberia – SDI presents the work to...

Liberia

Covid-19

Kenya Community Health Volunteers Reflect on ...

15 May 2020

VIDEO: Community Health Worker Reflects on Covid-19 in Mukuru, Kenya In this KYC-TV Kenya production ,...

Kenya

Youth

Responses to COVID 19: Uganda Federation & AC ...

13 May 2020

Cities and Infrastructure for Growth (CIG) programme in Uganda, in collaboration with Cities Alliance, AcTogether...

Uganda

Covid-19

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

Predicting Covid-19 Contagion Risk Hotspots

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

Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

Zimbabwe's Urban Resilience Programme

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

Predicting Covid-19 Contagion Risk Hotspots

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

Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

Zimbabwe's Urban Resilience Programme

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