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SDI at WUF11 ...
23 Jun 2022
Join SDI at WUF11! Slum Dwellers International is excited to be attending this year’s World...
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Youth
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...
Zimbabwe
What women want – part two: to map vulnerab ...
24 Jun 2021
This article was originally published by IIED. By Sheela Patel, founder director of SPARC...
Women
What women want: how COVID-19 has highlighted ...
18 May 2021
Sheela Patel discusses how COVID-19 has highlighted the priorities and most pressing needs of...
Covid-19 in a Mumbai Slum: An interview with ...
02 Jun 2020
Last week, SPARC India spoke to Shamim Banu Salim Sheikh (age 55), a member of Mahila...
India
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...
Re-blocking & Resilience in Canumay East, Man ...
05 Dec 2018
This case study was prepared by the Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines, SDI and COADY as part of a...
Philippines
Recife Hosts Brazil’s First National Slum D ...
13 Aug 2018
Organize As of 2017, SDI’s Brazil partner is supporting 17 savings groups in 3 cities....
Brazil
Building Savings & Social Capital in Malawi ...
13 Jun 2018
Organize As of 2017, the Malawi Homeless People’s Federation has organized 505 groups in 28...
Malawi
What's Cooking in Urban Africa? A Michelin St ...
11 Jun 2018
Toxic smoke of household cooking with charcoal or paraffin kills 4.3 million people every year...
Private Sector Collaboration for Energy Justi ...
09 May 2018
Organize As of 2017, the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and Mahila Milan in India...
Women Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye ...
19 Mar 2018
By Skye Dobson, SDI As the Black Panther movie continues to smash box office records...
South Africa