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A report on some of the activities of the affiliates

Sri Lanka Federation has just entered into agreements with the Colombo local authorities to construct toilets and houses in the city. They have also made agreements with the Kurunegala Municipality. NSDF in India has entered into agreements with State Governments to roll out their successful toilet construction programme that has been pioneered in Mumbai and Pune. Philippines Federation has started savings schemes in East Timor and will soon travel to Indonesia to assist emerging savings schemes in that
country.

Malawi Federation has been offered land by the Blantyre municipality where it will start a pilot housing project. This is part of an agreement with the city whereby they will conduct the city-wide surveys as part of the Blantyre Cities Alliance Programme. At the end of November they go to Tanzania to support the savings schemes in Dar es Salaam. Muungano in Kenya will begin to enumerate shacks, in partnership with the Govt. in Kibera slum as part of the railway upgrading programme. Linked to this enumeration is a housing project on a piece of land in Kibera that has been provided by the Department of Lands. Uganda Savings Groups have begun with the construction of a sanitation unit in Kisenyi 3 and have begun to prepare for a housing development on two prime sites in the same informal settlement.

Zimbabwe Federation has been seeking to find a resolution to the crisis at Porta Farm where evictions are pending. The Namibia Federation is planning a Youth Festival in Windhoek in December. The SA, Kenya and Zimbabwe Federations are expected to participate. The SAHPF in South Africa continues to spend most of its energy on political in-fighting but some regions have chosen to set these issues aside and proceed with development work. The Durban Federation recently participated in the Cities Alliance meeting and extended its partnership with the Durban Metro to include inner-city medium density housing development. In Cape
Town the Western Cape Federation continues to seek to work with the city authorities on a major upgrading and relocation programme.