Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia

Article in Sun Newspaper: http://www.namibiansun.com/local-news/tsandi-community-takes-development-into-own-hands.61553 Activities supported through the SHARE project of the SDI to prepare for the up-scaling of community  driven initiatives in Namibia.

Loenardville Saving Group Members Meeting  Stampriet Saving Group Members Training on the Community Land Information Program (CLIP) in Gobabis Partnership Shack Dwellers Federation National Meeting  Namibian Federation on Exchange to Zambia Maltahohe Saving Group with Polytechnic of Namibia Students and NHAG Regional Coordinator Announcing Community Meeting in Loenardville ,Omaheke Region Habit Africa Technical Support in Usakos , Ongulumbabshe informal Settlement

Students and community members share their experiences on the site analysis exercise in Freedom Square Informal Settlement in Gobabis. The planning for the Freedom Square informal settlement came about as a result of an exchange that took place in March 2012 to Cape Town and Stellenbosch with Municipal councillors and officials from three local authorities (Gobabis, Grootfontein and Keetmanshoop) to learn about how communities and local authorities use enumeration and mapping information collected by the community to upgrade and plan their settlement. Following the exchange, the municipality proposed the re-blocking of the Freedom Square informal settlement in collaboration with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) and Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG). The exercise was speed up by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the municipality and the SDFN-NHAG on 15 August 2013. With the assistance of the SDI and the Association of African Planning School...

Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia signs their first MOU with the Gobabis Municipality Efraim Dawids, (CEO Gobabis Municipality), Mariana Bernardus (SDFN) and Anna Muller (NHAG) with signed documents The Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia , Namibia Housing Action Group and the Gobabis Municipality Signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday, 15th of August in the regional  capital Gobabis of the Omaheke Region.   The Community Land Information Programme (enumerations) by the Federation, community and Municipality of Gobabis and NHAG already covered all the four informal settlements with 6,000 people in Gobabis in 2012. In March 2013 a group of Namibians, including a Gobabis municipal official and a member from the community visited Stellenbosch and Cape Town to learn about upgrading. This inspired the Gobabis delegation to involve the informal settlement community in their own upgrading and to prepare for an MOU with the Shack Dwellers Federatio...