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SDI and KYC.TV proudly presents its very first #HiddenTreasure
24 May 2022
Slum Dwellers International (SDI), Know Your City TV (KYC.TV) and CoHabitat Network have officially launched our very first digital publication ‘Hidden Treasure’. KYC.TV is a creative collective of talented youth…
SDI is pleased to announce the appointment of the new Board of Directors and Director of the Secretariat: these are two key milestones in the reform and strengthening of SDI’s…
From Recovery to Resilience: Community-led Responses to Covid-19 in Informal Settlements
17 Jan 2022
In 2020, as Covid-19 spread rapidly across the cities where SDI is active, federations recognised the need for both urgent responses to the acute humanitarian crises facing their communities and…
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,…
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,…
By Benjamin Bradlow, SDI secretariatThe Zimbabwean Homeless People's Federation put on a real show at October's National Housing Convention in Victoria Falls with an eye-catching double-storey housing model, and song...
By Benjamin Bradlow, SDI secretariatHello and welcome to SDI's brand new blog! Shack / Slum Dwellers International (some people say "Shack," others say "Slum") is an alliance that has brought...
By Benjamin Bradlow, SDI Secretariat Part I -- Bolivia: New Freedoms in the Home of the Bolivarian Dream Though named after the liberator of much of South America, Simón Bolivar, many...
By Louise Cobbett, SDI Secretariat Slum Dwellers International were the main participants in a Housing Forum in Livingstone Zambia that was organized in late November 2009 by the Zambia Homeless and...
By Benjamin Bradlow, SDI Secretariat No trains enter the old train station in Alberton, situated at the western edge of the Ekurhuleni metro municipality in Gauteng. They stopped years ago, shortly...
By Louise Cobbett, SDI Secretariat On the 4th of November 09, the Nairobi City Council served the Aoko Road Traders of Nairobi with a 48-hour notice of eviction, however by midnight...
By Benjamin Bradlow ***Editor's Note (4 Jan 2010): For an update on behind-scenes-negotiations with local government officials at this convention, check out the SDI blog.*** Dennis Ndlovu smiled as he stood on...