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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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Zimbabwe federation highlights accomplishments

01 Nov 2009

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...

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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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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