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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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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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Nigerian Navy Forcibly Evicts Thousands from ...

22 Jan 2020

22 January 2020 Lagos, Nigeria JOINT PRESS STATEMENT: NIGERIAN NAVY ACTING ON ORDERS "FROM ABOVE"...

Nigeria

Tenure Security

SDI Rituals: Profiling & Enumeration through ...

05 Nov 2019

A piece written by Camila Yanzaguano, Erica Levenson, Manuela Chedjou, with photography by Ana Holschuch. Every year...

Malayamma Savings Mama ...

24 Oct 2019

Malayamma, a savings collector with the Mahila Milan poor women's network, begins each day walking house-to-house collecting...

India

Women

New Publication: REALISING THE MULTIPLE BENEF ...

23 Oct 2019

A publication by C40 Cities, ICLEI, IIED, SDI, and UN Habitat, with support from Cities...

Kenya

Slum Upgrading

Announcing #ChangeOurPicture Cell Phone Photo ...

03 Oct 2019

#ChangeOurPicture This is a cellphone photography competition open to anyone who lives in an informal...

Partnerships

SDI Week 2019: The Amsterdam Sessions. Every ...

27 Sep 2019

SDI is excited to announce the upcoming 2019 SDI Week, The Amsterdam Sessions. This is...

Global Agenda

Makhodo savings has gone digital ...

19 Sep 2019

Between June and August 2019, the Malawi federation has begun a process to digitize its...

Malawi

Savings

“Don’t remove them from the slum, remove ...

23 Aug 2019

**Cross posted from ARISE Consortium blog By Samuel Saidu and Abu Conteh “Don’t remove them...

Sierra Leone

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Winners of the 2019 Community Led Habitat Award for Africa

03 May 2019

SDI is excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Community-Led Habitat Awards: Project Call for Africa, an initiative of the CoHabitat Network implemented in partnership with urbaMonde and World Habitat. The...

Uganda

Slum Upgrading

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

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

Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

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

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

Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies in Unpredictable Times

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