Category Archives: Good Practices Review

Topics: Slum Regularization Slum Mapping Location: Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya Organizers: The Spatial Collective Shack/Slum Dwellers International Background: The community of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, is not marked on any official map of the city. On Google Maps, its streets appear as blank spots near a hospital and a road. However,...

Topics: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Flood Prevention Non-structural Disaster Planning Location: Banaba, Metro Manila, Philippines Organizers: Center for Disaster Preparedness, University of Philippines Community members Christian Aid UK Government Project Implementation: November 2012 Background: Located on the bend of a river on a floodplain outside Manila, the community of...

Topics: Urban upgrading Crime Mapping Location: Khayelishta township, Western Cape Province, South Africa Organizers:City government of Cape Town Community members Background: Khayelishta township was created in the 1980s by the apartheid government as a way to depopulate the surrounding overcrowded townships. Since then, Khayelishta has been a magnet for rural-urban...

Topics: Urban Upgrading Sustainable Housing Informal Housing Location: Langrug, Stellenbosch, South Africa Actors: Informal Settlement Network (ISN) Stellenbosch Municipality Residents of Langrug Community Organisation Resource Center (CORC) South African Slum/Shack Dweller’s International Alliance (SDI Alliance) Year: 2010-2012 Background: Stellenbosch Municipality in Western Cape Province, South Africa, is world-renowned for the...

Topics: Urban upgrading Years: 1990 – 2010 Background: Since the early 1980s, Tunisia and Morocco have established programmes to reduce the number of slums, expand affordable housing opportunities and improve the provision of urban services. Projects: ARRU in Tunisia: Tunisia has essentially eliminated all its bidonvilles (slums) through a programme...

Topics: Urban Upgrading Sustainable Housing Rapid Urbanization Location: Khartoum, Sudan Year: 1991 Background: Khartoum is historically the main destination of migration in Sudan. It hosts 45 per cent of total rural-urban migration and 50 per cent of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Khartoum hosted 79 per cent of all migrants...

Topics: Urban Sustainability Water Conservation Sustainable Design Appropriate Technologies Location: Bermuda Organizers: Local Government Home owners Private Sector Background: Despite an idyllic location in the Caribbean, the island of Bermuda and its 60,000 inhabitants face two stark environmental challenges. First, with scarce and difficult to access groundwater resources, fresh water...

Topics: Urban Finance Market UpgradingPublic Space UpgradingPublic-Private Partnerships Location:Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso Organizers: Agence Francaise de Developpement Local merchants Background: Burkina Faso is a poor country and its municipalities receive little support from the government. When the Central Market of Bobo-Dioulasso needed upgrading in the late 1990s, the municipality’s poor finances...