The age of cities and organizations of the urban poor: the work of the South African Homeless People's Federation and the People's Dialogue on Land and Shelter

Author(s)
Ted Baumann, Joel Bolnick and Diana Mitlin
Pages
43pp
Publisher
IIED Working Paper 2 on Poverty Reduction in Urban Areas
Type
Articles
Keywords
Capacity development, Environment & climate, Poverty, Shelter and housing, Shelter, Urban
Countries
South Africa

This is one of ten case studies that were part of an IIED research programme on “Urban Poverty
Reduction Programmes: Lessons of Experience”. The research was undertaken with support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development/DFID (project number R6859) and from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The publications that are the result of this work are listed at the end of this paper.