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Integrating a large informal settlement to the City’s urban, social and economic fabric.
Kolorob is an online mobile platform that delivers access to information about local services. Currently focussed based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, it connects people living in informal settlements with essential service providers: schools, clinics, businesses, and government departments.
A programme to connect 200,000 poor households to the public electricity grid.
A programme to provide women living in slums leadership skills andrrisk reduction training.
Building a sustainable working relationship between local government and slum dwellers to create an inclusive city.
Increasing access and mobility for people with disabilities
The project for self-sustaining agriculture focuses on local families and especially on the women who have organized themselves in almost 600 community organizations in order to take care of daily issues in residential areas.
In 2004, the municipality initiated the community ablution blocks (CABs) programme to provide communal water and sanitation facilities to un-served informal settlements in the urban and peri-urban areas of eThekwini.
This project advises concepts and methods of participatory community development and grass roots based waste management in informal urban areas.