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2014 marks Shack / Slum Dwellers International’s (SDI) 18th year in existence. our network began as a mechanism for cross-border learning for women’s collectives from the slums of cities in the global South. While it has remained true to these local roots it has also become an important voice of the urban poor in the international arena. Today, SDI connects over 1,000,000 active savings members, with a presence in 34 countries and more than 400 cities in Africa, Asia, and latin America.

At the same time it maintains formal relationships with many national governments and with international agencies such as Cities Alliance, un Habitat, the World Bank, united Cities and local governments, and a number of important bi-lateral agencies in the urban development sector. What is more, SDI may be unique amongst international social movements insofar as it not only serves on the governance structures of some of these institutions, but has representation from them on its own advisory boards.

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urban poor federations begin in the home. Individuals and families come together through the participation of primarily women in savings schemes. Sometimes there is one in an informal settlement. Sometimes in a single settlement, there may be fifteen savings schemes.

Before long people in those schemes start to talk with savings schemes elsewhere in the city. As they recognize their common challenges and aspirations, they forge closer bonds. They see the value in pooling their resources — money, surveys, maps, confidence, solidarity — which they have been collecting at the savings scheme level, and the settlement level. They form citywide and national level federations. Their power and organizational systems continue to grow.

especially over the last five years, SDI federations have had an increasing focus on “delivery.” Still, there is not one city where SDI works in which the dominant mode of “delivery” of these fundamental aspects of

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infrastructure for secure livelihoods is through people-centered processes. At the same time, dominant methods of delivery through “public-private partnerships” and centrally planned strategies have made little impact on the lives of the poor.

Indeed, in almost all cities in Africa and Asia, the allocation of resources and political will towards provision of land, services and shelter for the poor is woefully inadequate. over the past three years, SDI has implemented a rigorous set of monitoring and evaluation practice to track progress in our mission to build the voice of the poor to influence more inclusive city development processes. SDI’s practices for change, through

large-scale practical work on the ground, are leading city governments to rethink how they support and partner with local urban poor federations to begin achieving meaningful impact on reducing these major deficits.

please visit us online at www.sdinet.org for more information about SDI and its programmes across the global South.

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In 2014 SDI launches the Know Your City Campaign, aimed at the development of protocols for cities to map slums across the city.

every household, every neighborhood and every informal settlement has to be counted. There can be no inclusive or equitable development planning and investment, nor effective city governance if the increasing majority of the residents of informal settlements remain unaccounted for.

SDI has demonstrated that cities have to work with urban poor communities to collect baseline data and maps of all informal settlements in the city. This is the beginning of forming a relationship with those who have remained invisible in city planning in the past.

our campaign seeks to invite communities of the urban poor, ngos, academics, and city mayors and administrators to join this campaign. We urge national governments, bilateral agencies, multilateral organizations, and academics, to finance and support this process.

SDI’s experience shows that slum mapping has many immediate and long-term benefits.

Firstly, it helps settlements to develop a collective understanding. When communities visit each other while collecting information, settlements begin to network. most of SDI federations have emerged through such exercises.

Secondly, sustainable development for cities needs to makes sure that information about all living in the city has to be collected, and updated. Invariably, cities list only half the settlements. This leads to skewed investments; increased difference between amenities and services provision and more difficulty in catching up to provide all these services.

Thirdly, in times of increased awareness of city responsibility to vulnerability with man-made and climatic disasters, reaching those most vulnerable and often least documented is always a problem for city administrations.

Helping the poor to create a voice, a collective identity, and possibilities to participate in transformation and change is an integral aspect of what we all seek in the future of cities.

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Try doing a slum profile and see its impact. SDI has a standardized slum-profiling format that has emerged from many decades of explorations.

Convince the city you live in to work with slum dwellers to map slums.

Connect with SDI and see how we digitize data and how communities aggregate and analyze their data. It has produced many benefits.

Intercity and inter-country data on slums produces a very different picture of slums than that painted by global data.

making cities that work for all requires data that is accessible to all. Come and see how SDI manages this through the city federations of the urban poor.

encourage those who finance development of cities to start with slum profiling, finance it, and make it the foundation for development investments.

Between now and 2016 there are many events where discussions about cities will explore the cities we need. Champion the need for comprehensive, city-wide slum data.

Starting with slum profiles transforms the way the city looks at itself.

It is best to start when the number of slums is few rather than waiting until slums represent more that half the city.

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WUF 7SDI SCHEDULE 5 - 11 April 2014Medellin, Colombia

* Information correct at time of print, but may be subject to change

12:15 - 13:15

16:30 - 18:30

10:00 - 11:30

Monday7 April 2014

Next City & SDI: "Putting Poor People atthe Centre of Strategies for UrbanDevelopment"Venue: USA PavillionSpeakers: Patrick Maghebula (SouthAfrica), Irene Karanja (Kenya), JosephMuturi (Kenya), Sarah Nandudu (Uganda)

8:30 - 11:30

Tuesday8 April 2014

Civil Society RoundtableVenue: TBCSpeakers: Rose Molokoane (South Africa),other speakers TBC

World Urban Campaign Special Session:"Towards a New Urban Paradigm: TheFuture We Want, The City We Need"Venue: TBDSpeakers: SDI: Rose Molokoane (SouthAfrica); Other: Joan Clos (UN Habitat), Nicholas You (WUC), Eugene Birch (WUC),Bert Smolders (ARCADIS & UPP), ShipraNarang Suri (ISOCARP), Janice Peterson(HUAIROU), Lorenzo Casullo (YouthAdvisory Board), Jean-Paul Huchon (FMDV),UCLG Representative, Anibal Gaviria Correa(Mayor of Medellin), Peter Gotz (GlobalParliamentarians on Habitat)

Basic Services DialogueVenue: TBCSpeakers: SDI: Patrick Maghebula (SouthAfrica); Other: Juan Esteban Calle Restrepo(Public Enterprises Medellin), DidasMassaburi (Mayor of Dar es Salaam),Joachim Prey (GIZ), Mahendra Subba(Ministry of Urban Development, Nepal),Sarah Rosen Wartell (Urban Institute);Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre (New CitiesFoundation)

IIED & SDI Sanitation Hygiene AppliedResearch for Equity (SHARE) Training Event:"The Politics of Sanitation: Strategies toAchieve Scale" Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 17Speakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti, CatherineSekai, and Sheila Magara (Zimbabwe);Nelson Ncube, Regina Chikoka, and JoyceLungu (Zambia); Tim Ndezi, Khadija Kingi,and Felistas Komba (Tanzania); CynthiaPhiri and Mphatso Njunga (Malawi);Moderator: Diana Mitlin (IIED)

UNDP & SDI Event: “Strong LocalGovernment for Development throughPartnerships in Ghana, South Africa, andUganda” Venue: One UN RoomSpeakers: SDI: Rose Molokoane (SouthAfrica), Muhammed Lutwamma (Uganda),Farouk Braimah (Ghana); Other: MagdyMartinez-Soliman (UNDP), Patrick Keuleers,(UNDP), Hon. Ibrahim Baidoo (Mayor ofAshaiman, Ghana), Mr. Kibuuka PatrickMusoke, (Dept. of Strategy Managment &Business Development, Kampala, Uganda);Moderator: Kodjo Mensah-Abrampa,(UNDP)

Cities Alliance City Walk with SDI & WIEGO:"Citizens & the City Working Together"Venue: Cities Alliance Exhibition StandSpeakers: Sonia Fadrigo (Philippines),Catherine Sekai (Zimbabwe), EdrisLubega (Uganda)

Association of African Planning Schools &SDI: "Planning Differently: CommunityBased Slum Upgrading Studios"Venue: Yellow Pavillion, Room 12Speakers: SDI: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe), Rosalinda Hendricks(Namibia); Other: Nancy Odendaal (AAPS),Hon. James Chiyangwa (City of Harare);Moderator: Jack Makau (SDI)

Future of Places & SDI: "Future of Places -Public Spaces in Favelas & Slums"Venue: City Changer Room B Speakers: SDI: Farouk Braimah (Ghana),Maria Eugenia Torrico (Bolivia); Other: Hon.Ibrahim Baidoo (Mayor of Ashaiman,Ghana), Elin Andersdotter Fabre (Ax:sonJohnson Foundation), Mary Jane Ortega(ICLEI), Andres Borthagaray (City on theMove Institute)

FAU / UFRJ Networking Event: "CitywideSlum Upgrading Programs: Taking Stock ofPractices, Outcomes, & Innovations inScaled-up Approaches to Integrate SlumsInto the Formal City"Venue: Red Pavillion, Room 17Speakers: Muhammed Lutwamma andEdris Lubega (Uganda), other speakersTBC

UCLGA & SDI: "The Know Your CityProject: Building Inclusive Cities throughPartnerships between Local Government& Slum Dwellers in Zambia & BurkinaFaso"Venue: City Changer RoomSpeakers: SDI: Regina Chikoka (Zambia),Nelson Ncube (Zambia); Other: Hon. DanielChisenga (Zambia), Lusaka City CouncilMember (TBC), Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi(UCLGA); Moderator: Charlton Ziervogel(South Africa)

14:00 - 16:00Min. of Econ. Dev't, Germany Event: "How toEnable Urban Innovation - Fast, at broadscale, and equitable?” Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 16Speakers: Farouk Braimah (Ghana),other speakers TBC

14:00 - 16:00Ford Foundation Event: "Gender, AssetBuilding & Just Cities" Venue: Yellow Pavilion, Room 6Speakers: SDI: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe); Other: Sonia Dias (WIEGO),Huraera Jabeen (BRAC), Cathy McIlwaine(Queen Mary's University of London), CarenLevy (DPU London); Moderator: CarolineMoser (Ford Foundation)

14:00 - 16:00Overseas Development Institute Event: "Leaving No One Behind: How can webetter monitor progress in 'slum' areas?" Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 23Speakers: Joseph Muturi (Kenya),other speakers TBC

16:30 - 18:30SDI Networking Event: "Know Your City:Creating Resilient & Equitable Citiesthrough Partnerships for Community-Collected Data" Venue: Yellow Pavilion, Room 11Speakers: SDI: Jack Makau (Kenya),Catherine Sekai (Zimbabwe), Irene Karanja(Kenya); Other: Anaclaudia Rossbach(Cities Alliance), Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi(UCLGA); Moderator: Rose Molokoane(South Africa)

Min. of Water, Resources, Works andHousing of Ghana Event: "Scaling UpInformal Settlement Upgrading &Prevention through National HousingPolicies & Programmatic Approaches:Lessons Learned from 12 Countries"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 22Speakers: Farouk Braimah (Ghana), otherspeakers TBC

14:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

16:30 - 18:30

8:30 - 11:30

8:30 - 11:30

8:30 - 10:30

8:30 - 11:30 Santa Fe Institute & SDI Event: "SmartCities from the Bottom Up"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 22 Speakers: Marlene Don and CharltonZiervogel (South Africa), Edris Lubega(Uganda); Other: Luis Bettencourt (Santa FeInstitute); Moderator: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe)

14:00 - 16:00

17:00 - 18:30

13:00 - 14:00

Habitat University Network InitiativeUniversities RoundtableVenue: TBCSpeakers: SDI: Irene Karanja (Kenya);Other: Sahar Attia (Cairo University), MarioR. Delos Reyes (Univ. of Philippies), AnaFalu (National University of Argentina),Shuaib Lwasa (Makerere University,Uganda), Michelle Mycoo (Univ. of WestIndies), Hans Skotte (Norwegian Universityof Science & Technology), Bruce Shiftel(Georgia Institute of Technology);Moderator: Michael Cohen (The NewSchool, New York City)

14:00 - 16:00

Thursday

Friday

10 April 2014

Wednesday9 April 2014

11 April 2014

14:00 - 16:00

Habitat for Humanity International Trainingevent: "How Can STDM & TechnologicalTools Support Community Development,Dialogue, and Participatory Mapping?"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 15Speakers: SDI: Jack Makau (Kenya), SoniaFadrigo (Philippines), Sarah Nandudu(Uganda); Other: Brenda Perez Castro(Habitat for Humanity Colombia), EscarlemRodriguez (Bolivia), Somsook Boonyabanca(Asian Coalition for Housing Rights)

PENN IUR Event “Informal SettlementProfiling - A first step in developingupgrading plans: The Zimbabwean case” Venue: PENN IUR Exhibition StandSpeakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti (Zimbabwe)

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WUF 7SDI SCHEDULE 5 - 11 April 2014Medellin, Colombia

* Information correct at time of print, but may be subject to change

12:15 - 13:15

16:30 - 18:30

10:00 - 11:30

Monday7 April 2014

Next City & SDI: "Putting Poor People atthe Centre of Strategies for UrbanDevelopment"Venue: USA PavillionSpeakers: Patrick Maghebula (SouthAfrica), Irene Karanja (Kenya), JosephMuturi (Kenya), Sarah Nandudu (Uganda)

8:30 - 11:30

Tuesday8 April 2014

Civil Society RoundtableVenue: TBCSpeakers: Rose Molokoane (South Africa),other speakers TBC

World Urban Campaign Special Session:"Towards a New Urban Paradigm: TheFuture We Want, The City We Need"Venue: TBDSpeakers: SDI: Rose Molokoane (SouthAfrica); Other: Joan Clos (UN Habitat), Nicholas You (WUC), Eugene Birch (WUC),Bert Smolders (ARCADIS & UPP), ShipraNarang Suri (ISOCARP), Janice Peterson(HUAIROU), Lorenzo Casullo (YouthAdvisory Board), Jean-Paul Huchon (FMDV),UCLG Representative, Anibal Gaviria Correa(Mayor of Medellin), Peter Gotz (GlobalParliamentarians on Habitat)

Basic Services DialogueVenue: TBCSpeakers: SDI: Patrick Maghebula (SouthAfrica); Other: Juan Esteban Calle Restrepo(Public Enterprises Medellin), DidasMassaburi (Mayor of Dar es Salaam),Joachim Prey (GIZ), Mahendra Subba(Ministry of Urban Development, Nepal),Sarah Rosen Wartell (Urban Institute);Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre (New CitiesFoundation)

IIED & SDI Sanitation Hygiene AppliedResearch for Equity (SHARE) Training Event:"The Politics of Sanitation: Strategies toAchieve Scale" Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 17Speakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti, CatherineSekai, and Sheila Magara (Zimbabwe);Nelson Ncube, Regina Chikoka, and JoyceLungu (Zambia); Tim Ndezi, Khadija Kingi,and Felistas Komba (Tanzania); CynthiaPhiri and Mphatso Njunga (Malawi);Moderator: Diana Mitlin (IIED)

UNDP & SDI Event: “Strong LocalGovernment for Development throughPartnerships in Ghana, South Africa, andUganda” Venue: One UN RoomSpeakers: SDI: Rose Molokoane (SouthAfrica), Muhammed Lutwamma (Uganda),Farouk Braimah (Ghana); Other: MagdyMartinez-Soliman (UNDP), Patrick Keuleers,(UNDP), Hon. Ibrahim Baidoo (Mayor ofAshaiman, Ghana), Mr. Kibuuka PatrickMusoke, (Dept. of Strategy Managment &Business Development, Kampala, Uganda);Moderator: Kodjo Mensah-Abrampa,(UNDP)

Cities Alliance City Walk with SDI & WIEGO:"Citizens & the City Working Together"Venue: Cities Alliance Exhibition StandSpeakers: Sonia Fadrigo (Philippines),Catherine Sekai (Zimbabwe), EdrisLubega (Uganda)

Association of African Planning Schools &SDI: "Planning Differently: CommunityBased Slum Upgrading Studios"Venue: Yellow Pavillion, Room 12Speakers: SDI: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe), Rosalinda Hendricks(Namibia); Other: Nancy Odendaal (AAPS),Hon. James Chiyangwa (City of Harare);Moderator: Jack Makau (SDI)

Future of Places & SDI: "Future of Places -Public Spaces in Favelas & Slums"Venue: City Changer Room B Speakers: SDI: Farouk Braimah (Ghana),Maria Eugenia Torrico (Bolivia); Other: Hon.Ibrahim Baidoo (Mayor of Ashaiman,Ghana), Elin Andersdotter Fabre (Ax:sonJohnson Foundation), Mary Jane Ortega(ICLEI), Andres Borthagaray (City on theMove Institute)

FAU / UFRJ Networking Event: "CitywideSlum Upgrading Programs: Taking Stock ofPractices, Outcomes, & Innovations inScaled-up Approaches to Integrate SlumsInto the Formal City"Venue: Red Pavillion, Room 17Speakers: Muhammed Lutwamma andEdris Lubega (Uganda), other speakersTBC

UCLGA & SDI: "The Know Your CityProject: Building Inclusive Cities throughPartnerships between Local Government& Slum Dwellers in Zambia & BurkinaFaso"Venue: City Changer RoomSpeakers: SDI: Regina Chikoka (Zambia),Nelson Ncube (Zambia); Other: Hon. DanielChisenga (Zambia), Lusaka City CouncilMember (TBC), Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi(UCLGA); Moderator: Charlton Ziervogel(South Africa)

14:00 - 16:00Min. of Econ. Dev't, Germany Event: "How toEnable Urban Innovation - Fast, at broadscale, and equitable?” Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 16Speakers: Farouk Braimah (Ghana),other speakers TBC

14:00 - 16:00Ford Foundation Event: "Gender, AssetBuilding & Just Cities" Venue: Yellow Pavilion, Room 6Speakers: SDI: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe); Other: Sonia Dias (WIEGO),Huraera Jabeen (BRAC), Cathy McIlwaine(Queen Mary's University of London), CarenLevy (DPU London); Moderator: CarolineMoser (Ford Foundation)

14:00 - 16:00Overseas Development Institute Event: "Leaving No One Behind: How can webetter monitor progress in 'slum' areas?" Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 23Speakers: Joseph Muturi (Kenya),other speakers TBC

16:30 - 18:30SDI Networking Event: "Know Your City:Creating Resilient & Equitable Citiesthrough Partnerships for Community-Collected Data" Venue: Yellow Pavilion, Room 11Speakers: SDI: Jack Makau (Kenya),Catherine Sekai (Zimbabwe), Irene Karanja(Kenya); Other: Anaclaudia Rossbach(Cities Alliance), Jean-Pierre Elong Mbassi(UCLGA); Moderator: Rose Molokoane(South Africa)

Min. of Water, Resources, Works andHousing of Ghana Event: "Scaling UpInformal Settlement Upgrading &Prevention through National HousingPolicies & Programmatic Approaches:Lessons Learned from 12 Countries"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 22Speakers: Farouk Braimah (Ghana), otherspeakers TBC

14:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 17:00

16:30 - 18:30

8:30 - 11:30

8:30 - 11:30

8:30 - 10:30

8:30 - 11:30 Santa Fe Institute & SDI Event: "SmartCities from the Bottom Up"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 22 Speakers: Marlene Don and CharltonZiervogel (South Africa), Edris Lubega(Uganda); Other: Luis Bettencourt (Santa FeInstitute); Moderator: Beth Chitekwe-Biti(Zimbabwe)

14:00 - 16:00

17:00 - 18:30

13:00 - 14:00

Habitat University Network InitiativeUniversities RoundtableVenue: TBCSpeakers: SDI: Irene Karanja (Kenya);Other: Sahar Attia (Cairo University), MarioR. Delos Reyes (Univ. of Philippies), AnaFalu (National University of Argentina),Shuaib Lwasa (Makerere University,Uganda), Michelle Mycoo (Univ. of WestIndies), Hans Skotte (Norwegian Universityof Science & Technology), Bruce Shiftel(Georgia Institute of Technology);Moderator: Michael Cohen (The NewSchool, New York City)

14:00 - 16:00

Thursday

Friday

10 April 2014

Wednesday9 April 2014

11 April 2014

14:00 - 16:00

Habitat for Humanity International Trainingevent: "How Can STDM & TechnologicalTools Support Community Development,Dialogue, and Participatory Mapping?"Venue: Red Pavilion, Room 15Speakers: SDI: Jack Makau (Kenya), SoniaFadrigo (Philippines), Sarah Nandudu(Uganda); Other: Brenda Perez Castro(Habitat for Humanity Colombia), EscarlemRodriguez (Bolivia), Somsook Boonyabanca(Asian Coalition for Housing Rights)

PENN IUR Event “Informal SettlementProfiling - A first step in developingupgrading plans: The Zimbabwean case” Venue: PENN IUR Exhibition StandSpeakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti (Zimbabwe)

SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl: “KnoW Your CITY: CreATIng reSIlIenT & eQuITABle CITIeS THrougH pArTnerSHIpS For CommunITY-ColleCTeD DATA”

Speakers: Jack makau, SDI Secretariat, Kenya; Anaclaudia rossbach, regional Advisor for latin America & the Caribbean, Cities Alliance; Jean-pierre elong mbassi, Secretary general, united Cities & local governments of Africa; Catherine Sekai, national leader, Zimbabwe Homeless people’s Federation; Irene Karanja, executive Director, muungano Support Trust, Kenya; moderator: rose molokoane, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa Time, Date & venue: Tuesday 8 April 2014, 16:30 – 18:30, Yellow pavilion, room 11

This event will unpack the data collection strategy of SDI and focus on the critical role of partnerships for community-collected data at the citywide and global scale. It will highlight the ways in which SDI’s partnerships with institutions such as the united Cities and local governments of Africa (uClgA) and Cities Alliance serve as the means to explore how data collected by the poor, about the poor, and for the poor becomes standard benchmarking data used by urban policy makers and planners.

For decades, urban poor federations have used community-collected data to seek recognition of their existence in cities, stave off evictions, negotiate resettlement and upgrading plans, and identify infrastructure needs. over the years, technology used by these federations has begun to change. Through partnerships with un Habitat’s global land Tools network (glTn), the Santa Fe Institute, and academia, SDI-affiliated federations adopt technologies that increase the accuracy and potential of data, making it invaluable to urban decision makers. Through engagement with key partners, SDI seeks to facilitate local partnerships that demonstrate the power of data collected by the poor and shared with cities.

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While communities’ activities do not change much, legitimation andacceptance by governments and external agencies serves as a trigger for engagement with the poor in solving city challenges. For instance, when communities collect information about water and sanitation in slums, it forms the basis of community-driven upgrading solutions that improve the lives of slum dwellers at scale.

The key takeaway from this event is that every city can and should be generating data on poverty with the poor, by the poor, and for the poor. This event will help answer questions of how and why cities should do this and present case studies that explore how partnerships around data collection are leading to innovative upgrading solutions at scale.

members of the Kenyan Federation,muungano wa Wanavijiji.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD neXT CITY: “puTTIng poor people AT THe CenTre oF STrATegIeS For urBAn DevelopmenT”

Speakers: patrick maghebula, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa; Irene Karanja, executive Director, muungano Support Trust, Kenya; Joseph muturi, national leader, muungano wa Wanavijiji, Kenya; Sarah nandudu, national leader, national Slum Dwellers Federation of uganda

Time, Date & venue: monday 7 April 2014, 10:00 – 11:30, uSA pavilion

Key national leaders from organized communities of the urban poor and their support ngos from cities in Kenya, South Africa, and uganda will highlight how organizations of the poor have triggered new institutional responses to poverty in their cities that prioritise both the needs and voices of poor people. They will highlight some of the methods organized communities of the urban poor across the global South are using to develop relationships with their governments and some of the outcomes of these relationships in scaling up slum upgrading and improving quality of life.

patrick maghebula, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD unITeD CITIeS & loCAl governmenTS oF AFrICA: “THe KnoW Your CITY proJeCT: BuIlDIng InCluSIve CITIeS THrougH pArTnerSHIpS BeTWeen loCAl governmenT & Slum DWellerS In ZAmBIA & BurKInA FASo”

Speakers: Jean-pierre elong mbassi, Secretary general, united Cities & local governments of Africa; regina Chikoka, national leader, Zambian Homeless people’s Federation; Honourable Daniel Chisenga, mayor of lusaka; lusaka City Council member; nelson ncube, executive Director, people’s process on Housing & poverty in Zambia; moderator: Charlton Ziervogel, programme manager, Community organisation resource Centre, South Africa

Time, Date & venue: Tuesday 8 April 2014, 12:15 - 13:15, City Changer room

The Know Your City joint-work project implemented by uClgA and SDI (Shack / Slum Dwellers International) focused on building effective working relationships between local authorities and slum dwellers through the implementation of community led enumeration exercises. The key objective entailed enhancing the collective knowledge and data on slums in lusaka, Zambia and ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The project envisages a holistic and replicable approach to address the challenge of informal settlements by working with communities and local authorities in an inclusive process of slum regeneration and development.

The work conducted in both ouagadougou and lusaka laid the groundwork for more equitable partnerships between the community and the state, developing a common right to the city. The project has resulted in a formalized partnership between the City of lusaka and informal communities there, with plans for joint-work programs focusing on sanitation and infrastructure development. These plans are based on the data collected from the seven slums enumerated during the project.

As the first SDI initiative in ouagadougou, exchanges between federations in ghana, uganda, Zambia, and Burkina Faso were crucial to support the local partnering organization, laboratoire Citeyonnetés (Citizen’s

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laboratory). In addition to initiating a dialogue between local authorities and slum dwellers in ouagadougou, the project has resulted in the establishment of over seven women-run savings schemes and the enumeration of two informal settlements.

This networking event intends to highlight the value of developing equitable partnerships between slum dwellers and local governments. Through this collaborative data collection process, new institutional alignments are created between local government and the most marginalized urban citizens, leading to innovative models for collective settlement upgrading.

members of the Zambian Homeless people’s Federation

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD ASSoCIATIon oF AFrICAn plAnnIng SCHoolS: “plAnnIng DIFFerenTlY: CommunITY BASeD Slum upgrADIng STuDIoS”

Speakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti, executive Director, Dialogue on Shelter, Zimbabwe; rosalinda Hendricks, national leader, Shack Dwellers Federation of namibia; Honourable James Chiyangwa, Deputy Director, Department of Housing and Community Services, City of Harare, Zimbabwe; nancy odendaal, project Coordinator, Association of African planning Schools; moderator: Jack makau, SDI Secretariat, Kenya

Time, Date & venue: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 14:00 – 16:00, Yellow pavilion, room 12

Africa’s urban population is set to double over the next twenty years, with 43% of the urban population living in poverty and 62% live in slums. Weak and under-resourced local governments, plus outdated and inappropriate planning and land management frameworks mean that the tools to manage this unprecedented growth are rarely available.

Achieving equitable, inclusive, and sustainable urban development under these conditions is remote, and increasingly poor communities find themselves facing eviction and spatial exclusion. The professionals whose central task is to plan the future of these burgeoning cities are frequently trained to rely on the existing problematic planning laws or to promote modernization processes that see cities such as new York or Dubai as an ideal to be attained. Such professionals usually lack an understanding of how to work with poor urban communities to devise appropriate solutions to their living and working environments.

over the last decade the Association of African planning Schools (AApS), now with 50 university members, developed new approaches to planning education. A central goal has been to sensitize planning students to the lived experiences of slum dwellers, and to value their knowledge on how to improve their living environments.

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In 2010 a memorandum of understanding was signed between AApS and Shack / Slum Dwellers International (SDI) to encourage country-based affiliates of SDI to work directly with AApS schools. The primary mechanism for collaboration has been the ‘community-based studio’ involving SDI and planning staff as well as community leaders. To date seven studios have taken place across Africa. planning staff and students had direct exposure to conditions and residents of informal settlements, with the studios facilitated by SDI and affiliate staff.

This networking event will include planning educators, community members, and support professionals involved in studios to promote the insights from community-based studios as a learning tool.

members of the Shack Dwellers Federation of namibia.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD FuTure oF plACeS (un HABITAT, proJeCT For puBlIC SpACeS & AX:Son JoHnSon FounDATIon): “THe FuTure oF plACeS – puBlIC SpACeS In FAvelAS AnD SlumS”

Speakers: Farouk Braimah, Director, people’s Dialogue on Human Settlements, ghana; maria eugenia Torrico, Director, red de Accion Comunitaria, Bolivia; Honourable Ibrahim Baidoo, mayor of Ashaiman, ghana; elin Andersdotter Fabre, Ax:son Johnson Foundation; mary Jane ortega, ICleI, Former mayor of San Fernando, philippines; Andres Borthagaray, City on the move Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Time, Date & venue: Wednesday 9 April 2014, 16:00 – 17:00, City Changer room B

This event will highlight the overall purpose of the Future of places forum: to indicate the importance of public space and placemaking in city planning. Cities can continue to grow chaotically without regard to human social needs and environmental consequences or we can embrace a sustainable and equitable process which builds community, enhances quality of life, and creates safe and prosperous neighborhoods.

We are convinced that in the future, the most functional cities will be the ones that encapsulate the public realm and the people who utilize these places. This is a people centered vision for cities – one that enables a transformative shift in the traditional planning and management of cities, a shift that benefits everyone, specifically those at the bottom of the economic ladder.

This event will highlight the importance of public spaces for the urban poor that also work for and improve quality of life for the city at large. experiences will be drawn on from organized communities affiliated with the Shack / Slum Dwellers International network of the urban poor in ghana and Bolivia to speak about ways in which these communities create and improve public spaces in their communities and cities.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD InTernATIonAl InSTITuTe For envIronmenT & DevelopmenT: “THe polITICS oF SAnITATIon: STrATegIeS To ACHIeve SCAle”

Speakers: Beth Chitekwe-Biti, executive Director, Dialogue on Shelter, Zimbabwe; Catherine Sekai and Sheila magara, national leaders, Zimbabwe Homeless people’s Federation; nelson ncube, Director, people process on Housing & poverty Zambia; Joyce lungu and regina Chikoka, national leaders, Zambian Homeless people’s Federation; Tim ndezi, Director, Centre for Community Initiatives, Tanzania; Felistas Komba and Khadija Kingi, national leaders, Tanzanian Homeless people’s Federation; Cynthia phiri, Centre for Community organization and Development, malawi; mphatso njunga, national leader, malawi Homeless people’s Federation; moderator: Diana mitlin, principal researcher, Human Settlements group, International Institute for environment & Development

Time, Date & venue: Thursday 10 April 2014, 8:30 – 11:30, red pavilion, room 17

The millennium Development goal for improved sanitation provision to the urban poor will miss its target. Sanitation provision has often been neglected in city policies with coverage for the urban poor negligible; grid systems are overburdened and dilapidated, city departments under resourced and existing provision including public toilets in a state of disrepair. The functional part of the system nearly always serves the wealthier formal sector, largely ignoring the far larger informal and poorer population.

Sanitation provision has health, social, and political impacts that extend beyond the physical provision of an amenity. Impacts from improved provision include reduction of disease, infant mortality, and income lost due to illness. The burden of inadequate sanitation is felt particularly by women who may face security and health risks when accessing dysfunctional and overcrowded public facilities.

evidence from SDI initiatives clearly indicates that sanitation projects, in partnership with local government, open an institutional “wedge” leading to discussions around land provision, tenure security, and settlement upgrading. Developing equitable cities involves creating sanitation systems that are affordable and accessible to the poorest of the poor. This means rethinking traditional standards and norms of urban planning, improving political relationships and building partnerships with government. It also involves creating a social process that works alongside appropriate technology, empowering the poor to be directly involved in developing sanitation solutions and expanding

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them to reach citywide scale. Community sanitation data collection and mapping as well as building precedent setting pilot projects have the potential to scale up sanitation delivery significantly. This content forms the core of this training event.

The training event will use examples from the Sanitation & Hygiene Applied research for equity (SHAre) action research project undertaken by four community processes and associated ngos affiliated to Shack / Slum Dwellers International (SDI). The project is based on a partnership between SDI and The International Institute of environment and Development (IIeD), administered through the london School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine (lSHTm) and funded by the Department for International development-uK (DFID).

In malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Zambia slum communities supported by local ngos collected extensive data on the obstacles preventing citywide, equitable sanitation. Based on the obstacles identified, precedent setting sanitation facilities are being developed in each country. Communal sanitation data collection and mapping lay the groundwork for pilot projects, built community capacity, and opened up possibilities of co-production with government. pilot projects, based on community data and related decisions about local priorities, provide practical testing grounds for new modes of delivery that can attract political and financial resources from local government. This opens the space for re-aligning institutional arrangements and resource flows around sanitation to be more inclusive and equitable.

The training event will consist of three sessions. The introductory session will introduce the federation and the sanitation challenges that they face. The session will also speak to the grassroots driven and citywide approaches they are attempting to implement. The second session will highlight the importance of community-led information gathering to sanitation interventions. The focus will be on experiences from Zimbabwe with community members explaining data collection and mapping, as well as how information collected is used for planning and negotiation with local government. Skills shared will include the following; developing and implementing community led surveys, data aggregation, mapping and gIS, setting of sanitation priorities, and using data collected to leverage political impact. The third and final session will unpack the importance of community led precedent-setting sanitation pilot projects towards achieving citywide scale. Community members will explain how projects are selected and scaled up. Skills shared will include; how to identify projects, how to document effectiveness, how to work with relevant professionals, and how to use results to negotiate for further resources.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD unITeD nATIonS DevelopmenT progrAmme: “STrong loCAl governmenT For DevelopmenT THrougH pArTnerSHIpS In gHAnA, SouTH AFrICA, AnD ugAnDA”

Speakers: rose molokoane, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa; muhammed lutwamma, programme Coordinator, ACTogether uganda; Farouk Braimah, Director, people’s Dialogue on Human Settlements, ghana; magdy martinez-Soliman, Director, Bureau for policy Development, unDp; patrick Keuleers, Director, Democratic governance group, unDp; Hon. Ibrahim Baidoo, mayor of Ashaiman, ghana; mr. Kibuuka patrick musoke, Deputy Dir. Strategy managment & Business Development, Kampala, uganda; moderator: Kodjo mensah-Abrampa, policy Advisor, local governance, Bureau for Development policy, unDp

Time, Date, & venue: Thursday 10 April 2014, 8:30 – 10:30, one un room

This event highlights a new partnership between the united nations Development program (unDp) and Shack / Slum Dwellers International (SDI) to support joint deliberative engagements between local governments and organized slum dweller communities in rapidly urbanizing cities. Too often, city development initiatives have been based on a narrow comprehension of the cultural and socio-economic dynamics of slum neighborhood residents.

emerging data, including that collected by slum dweller communities themselves, prove that slum dwellers already pay higher cost for water, electricity, and sanitation from the informal market. Slum demolitions have abated in some cases, but persist in many cities around the world.

However, informal settlement communities have begun organizing and networking at citywide and national scales in order to catalyze innovations with formal authorities for managing urban growth. These urban poor federations, linked to SDI, are working with governments in joint explorations to increase the capacity of urban governance institutions

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in developing cities to enable more inclusive interventions in generating access to land, basic services, and housing. The work of SDI federations to organize and network informal settlement communities, and explore partnerships with government institutions, is realizing poor people’s “right to the city.” They do so by generating practical knowledge and experience on how poor people not only survive in cities but give cities their shape and definition. This capacity must be recognized, valorized, and utilized within broader and systemic developmental agendas.

The objective of the partnership between unDp and SDI is to support both local governments and urban poor communities to work together, and build the base of data and skills to produce that which is most sorely needed by poor people in cities: land, water, sanitation, shelter, and opportunity of employment.

rose molokoane, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa.

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HABITAT For HumAnITY InTernATIonAl AnD SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl: “HoW CAn STDm & TeCHnologICAl ToolS SupporT CommunITY DevelopmenT, DIAlogue, AnD pArTICIpATorY mAppIng?”

Speakers: Brenda perez Castro, program manager, Habitat for Humanity Colombia; Jack makau, SDI Secretariat, Kenya; escarlem rodriguez, Social Communicator, Bolivia; Somsook Boonyabancha, Secretary general, Asian Coalition for Housing rights; Sonia Fadrigo, national leader, Homeless people’s Federation of the philippines; Sarah nandudu, national leader, national Slum Dwellers Federation of uganda

Time, Date, & venue: Thursday 10 April 2014, 8:30 – 11:30, red pavilion, room 15

This training event looks at the application of contemporary technology applied in community data collection and mapping, including the Social Tenure Domain model (STDm), gIS applications, and mobile phone technology used by international community-based networks. It teases out the impacts on community and stakeholder participation, scalability, cost, quality of data, and relevance to development goals. The training is focused on learning that may be used in the design of community enumeration, pro-poor land administration and governance, and mapping processes that rely on technology to achieve scale.

participants in the training will receive management skills in incorporating technology into community development enumeration and mapping interventions in ways that allow them to achieve better levels of participation, higher quality of data and easier data sharing capacities – and to do this at greater scale.

The training draws from the experiences of Habitat for Humanity, the Asian Coalition of Housing rights, and Shack / Slum Dwellers International. Based on real case studies at community, city, and international levels the learnings are drawn from latin America, Asia, and Africa and are delivered by practitioners and community leaders.

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SHACK / Slum DWellerS InTernATIonAl AnD SAnTA Fe InSTITuTe: “SmArT CITIeS From THe BoTTom up”

Speakers: marlene Don, national leader, Federation of the urban poor, South Africa; luis Bettencourt, professor, Santa Fe Institute; Charlton Ziervogel, programme manager, Community organization resource Centre, South Africa; edris lubega, national leader, national Slum Dweller Federation of uganda; moderator: Beth Chitekwe-Biti, Director, Dialogue on Shelter, Zimbabwe

Time, Date & venue: Friday 11 April 2014, 14:00 – 16:00, red pavilion,room 22

Challenges of economic, social and environmental change are insurmountable without information. There is little hard data on which communities, governments and international agencies can base development decisions. Community-driven slum profiling, enumerations, gIS mapping, and data management are some core methodologies of urban poor federations affiliated to the Shack / Slum Dwellers International (SDI) network. They form the critical base from which urban planning can achieve successful outcomes through deeper community participation. Data collection activities by SDI federations have reached a sufficient scale and scope to become the gold standard for institutions interested in measuring and understanding urban poverty in the cities of Africa, Asia, and latin America.

To make this happen, SDI is working with experts in urban data analysis and research at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI). This partnership will improve methodology to collect, manage, and analyze micro data and give it spatial and temporal context. The project aims to ensure that data collected by slum dwellers is of a standard suitable for local poverty analysis, advocacy, and planning and that it becomes a quantitative window into the global state of urban informal settlements, enabling a deeper and broader understanding of the issues of urban poverty through multilevel analysis and learning, from communities to researchers, governments, and international agencies.

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SFI has begun using the community-collected data from over 7,000 informal settlements worldwide to analyze general characteristics of informality and poverty in developing world cities. This analysis suggests a deeper academic understanding of developing cities and specific ways that policymakers and planners can intervene. The data shows that informal settlements are not problems to be destroyed or wished away. They are stages of development in fast, growing cities that, as they integrate with the formal city, can become cradles of civic and cultural development and growth.

Slum mapping with the malawi Homeless people’s Federation in lilongwe, malawi

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