slum upgrading

Events

SDG 11 and Adequate housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South

9 December 2020

Location

Online

United States

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Global

The webinar “SDG 11 and Adequate Housing: Shared experiences of Europe and the Global South” is organized within the framework of

Organizers:

Solid Ground

Habitat for Humanity Romania

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Informal settlements and access to data in the time of COVID: a case for sharing data for decision making

Reports & Research

November 2020

Southern Africa

The spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and other countries in the region has again brought to the fore the fact that very dense, under-serviced, mostly informal, settlements are not healthy places to live. They are also places where the spread of a disease is difficult to prevent or manage.

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Organizations

Development Workshop (DW)

Development Workshop was founded in 1973 and has been a promoter of urban and civic rights for more than four decades. DW is an active member of the African platform of the GPR2C. We have worked with international and African partners during the last 4 or 5 years as advocates for the right to the city in many local, national and international forums. We were instrumental in getting the Angolan Government to support the inclusion of the right to the city in the New Urban Agenda.

Mission

Habitat for Humanity Romania

The housing need in Romania

The housing need in Romania is one of the most severe in the European Union:

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A process through which informal areas are gradually improved, formalised and incorporated into the city itself, through extending land, services and citizenship to slum dwellers.

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