Global Agenda
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From Recovery to Resilience: Community-led Re ...
17 Jan 2022
In 2020, as Covid-19 spread rapidly across the cities where SDI is active, federations recognised...
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Zimbabwe
Youth
Enhancing the Resilience of Slum Communities ...
25 Feb 2021
[caption id="attachment_13337" align="alignleft" width="450"] Youth training in the fabrication of hand washing facilities (People’s Process...
News Release: Cities Alliance supports SDI af ...
03 Aug 2020
SDI is excited to announce the below partnership with Cities Alliance, supporting SDI-affiliated federations...
Partnerships
Announcing #ChangeOurPicture Cell Phone Photo ...
03 Oct 2019
#ChangeOurPicture This is a cellphone photography competition open to anyone who lives in an informal...
Zambia federation & government travel to Nami ...
14 Mar 2019
Zambia is a fast developing lower middle-income country with an estimated population of 16.9 million...
Zambia
Slum Upgrading
2019 Community-Led Habitat Award for Africa: ...
04 Feb 2019
We invite you to learn more about the 2019 Community-Led Habitat Award for Africa, an initiative...
Know Your City: the Process, the Platform, an ...
10 Oct 2018
The end of 2017 marked the end of a four-year strategic planning period for SDI...
Kenya
Profiling Enumeration…
Highlights from the Nigeria Federation: A yea ...
02 Oct 2018
Port Harcourt Federation volunteers launch a new savings group in Diobu waterfront Despite being one...
Nigeria
Know Your City & 100RC Joint Work in Cape Tow ...
01 Oct 2018
This report outlines the engagements between the South African SDI Alliance and the City of...
South Africa
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange: ...
07 Aug 2018
Resilience building has emerged as an important priority for cities worldwide. With an increasing number...
Developing Alternatives to Waterfront Evictio ...
Organize As of 2017, the Nigerian Slum/Informal Settlement Federation has organized 162 groups in 2...
Tenure Security
Lessons from Namibia: A week with one of SDI' ...
02 Aug 2018
This month, SDI co-founder Joel Bolnick spent ten days with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia and its support...
Namibia