23 Dec 2014

**Cross-posted from the South African SDI Alliance blog** By Yolande Hendler (on behalf of SA SDI Alliance) Father Jorge is one of the longest-standing friends and a much-valued mentor not...

15 May 2014

*Cross-posted from SHARE Research website* SHARE partners Shack/Slum Dwellers (SDI), together with their affiliates and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), have just published four policy briefs documenting...

02 May 2014

By Peoples Process on Housing and Poverty in Zambia (PPHPZ) & The University of Zambia (UNZ) It is indisputable that the urban poor have the propensity to drive socio-economic transformation...

05 Nov 2013

In July 2013 the Southern Africa Regional Hub - consisting of the SDI-affiliated urban poor federations from South Africa, Malawi, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, Namibia, and Botswana - met in...

01 Nov 2013

**For part I of this story, click here.** By Fariria Shumba (Peoples Process on Housing and Poverty- Zambia) & Noah Schermbrucker, SDI Secretariat In September of this year delegations from...

24 Oct 2013

Sanitation facility under construction by Nkana Water & Sewerage utility in Kamatipa, Kitwe, Zambia.  By Fariria Shumba, Peoples Process on Housing & Poverty, Zambia and Noah Schermbrucker, SDI Secretariat  This...

17 Oct 2012

SDI is happy to annouce our 2011/12 Annual Report, a reflection of where SDI has grown to over the past 25 years. This includes a discussion of SDI's practices for...

04 Apr 2012

By Jack Makau, SDI Secretariat A forum of African city governments with the support of SDI will organize the third SDI dialogue on citywide slum upgrading later in 2012. This...

28 Feb 2011

By George Masimba, Dialogue on ShelterThe Zimbabwean Alliance hosted the second National Forum whose theme was ‘strengthening our process through savings’. The Forum which was held in the Midlands Province...

03 Dec 2009

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...