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Welcome!
By Benjamin Bradlow, SDI secretariat
Hello and welcome to SDI's brand new blog! Shack / Slum Dwellers International (some people say "Shack," others say "Slum") is an alliance that has brought together organized poor communities and federations in 30 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, as well as associated professionals.
Our hope is that this blog can serve as a way to keep anyone interested in the work that our federations do — as well as urban poverty in general — up-to-date on the latest SDI goings-on. Moreover, this blog can serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas, news, and strategies, as part of the bigger community online of people working on and discussing the issues SDI affiliates deal with on a daily basis.
Please do not hesitate to comment on anything you see or think about it, share anything from this blog with others. Organizing communities is a piecemeal, difficult process, requiring lots of innovations and improvements every step of the way. This blog will probably go through its own changes and difficulties and we'll need your help and suggestions to move along that path.
Categories
- Community Planning (110)
- Countries
- Zimbabwe (29)
- South Africa (55)
- Kenya (42)
- Haiti (2)
- Brazil (9)
- Ghana (17)
- Uganda (45)
- India (29)
- Namibia (11)
- Tanzania (10)
- Malawi (17)
- Philippines (9)
- Sierra Leone (4)
- Zambia (4)
- Bolivia (6)
- Developing Alternatives To Evictions (13)
- Enumerations And Mapping (32)
- Exchange And Learning (46)
- Nigeria (1)
- Partnerships (88)
- Savings (34)
- Settlements Under Siege (47)
- Slum Upgrading (102)
- Uncategorized (1)
- Women (47)
Recent Posts
- An Introspect of the late Benson Osumba, Chair of Muungano wa Wanavijiji
- Creating Organised Communities of Slum Dwellers in Uganda
- SDl Joins World Urban Campaign
- In a Risky Place: Women & Sanitation in Nairobi's Slums
- Using Enumerations for Upgrading: Namibia to Cape Town Learning Exchange
- Benson Osumba on Mindset Change Amongst Youth in Africa
- Project Diary: Kalimali Sanitation Unit, Uganda
- Remembering Benson Osumba, Chairman of the Kenya SDI Alliance
- Activating Social & Political Change through Community-Driven Slum Profiling
- South Africa's FEDUP Wins Govan Mbeki Human Settlements Award
Archive
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- December 2009
- November 2009
Popular Posts
- Zimbabwe federation holds forum, Southern African hub meets
- The Zabaleen of Cairo
- Community Policing in Slum Settlements
- Slum Dwellers, Academics & City Officials Dialogue in Harare
- Unabated Forced Evictions in Nairobi's Informal Settlements
- Re-designing the city one shack cluster at a time
- The Beginnings of Enlightened Planning?
- SDI at World Urban Forum 6: Making Space for the Urban Poor
- Diary from Mumbai: Part III
- Culture, identity and slum areas: opportunities and challenges seen from slum dwellers’ perspective