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Learning Brief #9: Rethinking Land and Housing Allocation

In this Learning Brief, Afesis-corplan proposes that government should shift the majority of its housing budget from building RDP houses (for a relatively few people every year) to providing (basic) serviced...

Citizen-based Monitoring of Frontline Service Delivery Toolkit for Freedom House South Africa

Afesis-corplan are very proud to have developed a toolkit for Freedom House South Africa, titled: Citizen-based Monitoring of Frontline Service Delivery Toolkit. This toolkit was developed with an aim of...

How can local government councillors interact with and represent their constituents better?

On 5 July 2017 Sibulele Poswayo and Ronald Eglin met with Gabriel Nahmias a researcher involved in the South African Councillor Panel Study. The research project aims to better understand...

Strategic Plan Handbook 2017

Afesis-corplan, having worked on local governance and housing development issues for more than 20 years is one of the organizations that offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise that could...

Responding to Eviction and Displacement

About 35 participants from local and international NGO’s met under the theme “forced evictions and urban displacement” in Soweto between 17-20 July 2017 to learn more about local experiences in...

JUNE 2017 NEWSLETTER: Afesis in Action June 2017

To catch up on what has been happening at Afesis-corplan, click here for our newsletter, Afesis in Action June 2017!

Learning Brief #7: Land acquisition and development for human settlement

As a country we need to prioritise the acquisition and development of land for settlement purposes if we are to make any impact on the demand for housing. Between 1994...

Learning Brief #6: Motivation for a housing development support programme

Afesis-corplan has been promoting the concept of managed land settlement (MLS) for a number of years. MLS is where government allows people to settle on (semi) serviced land with basic...

Farm Dweller Tenure Security and Housing

By Ronald Eglin June 2017 A lot still needs to be done to find solutions for securing land tenure and housing for farm dwellers around South Africa. This emerged from...

Housing Co-operatives

A co-operative is where a group of people (homeless, consumers, unemployed) come together to address a common need (houses, cheap food, jobs) through a jointly owned and democratically controlled organisation...