Learning Brief #14: From re-blocking to pre-blocking

By |2021-01-14T09:34:34+00:00January 14th, 2021|Learning Briefs, Sustainable Settlements, Upgrading Informal Settlements|

There is growing interest within government and the country around the concept of re-blocking. Re-blocking is the process whereby communities who have occupied land work with government and others to shift shacks and plots around as part of the process of upgrading of informal settlements. Pre-blocking, in contrast, is where future occupants of land work [...]

Sifuna Amanzi (We Need Water)

By |2020-09-11T09:25:24+00:00September 11th, 2020|Local Governance, Organisational|

Sifuna Amanzi (We Need Water) is a social justice water campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the ongoing water shortages as a result of drought and poor water infrastructure in many impoverished and resource-deprived rural communities in the Eastern Cape. The province was declared a disaster area due to drought in 2019 by the [...]

Transformer Volume 20 Number 2 Article: Linking incremental settlement development and job creation

By |2020-01-29T10:38:36+00:00January 29th, 2020|Managed Land Settlement, Sustainable Settlements, Transformer Journal, Upgrading Informal Settlements|

Transformer Article: Linking incremental settlement development and job creation Ronald Eglin A shift from a housing approach that focuses on the provision of an RDP house, to one that focuses on incremental settlement development can help address the triple challenge of unemployment, inequality and poverty in South Africa. Click here for the PDF of the [...]

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

By |2020-01-24T08:08:16+00:00November 13th, 2019|Local Governance, News, Organisational|

Afesis-corplan are proud to have revised the toolkit for Freedom House South Africa, titled: Citizen-based Monitoring of Frontline Service Delivery Toolkit. This toolkit was originally developed in 2017 with an aim of offering organised community groups with basic tools to use to organise, mobilise and engage - in a structured and meaningful manner- in local [...]

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