Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia

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“I have not seen an institution as serious as the federation. I am happy with what you have achieved,” “Do not give up engaging the government. If you fall down, stand up again. I assure you that there will come a time that they will hear what you say. Rome was not build in one day. Never give up, ” said Khomas Regional Governor, Laura McLeod-Katjirua in her speech during SDFN national meeting on the 13th of June 2015. The purpose of the meeting was to share 6 months regional progress reports and plans on savings, projects, repayments of loans and enumerations. Watch video here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAPLyetWXGU

The Polytechnic of Namibia’s cooperative education unit responsible for finding internship for students at companies and organisations, gave recognition to the Namibia Housing Action Group for accommodating the highest number of students for work intergraded learning in the non-governmental sector. The Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG) has an 18 year collaboration with the Polytechnic of Namibia which ranges from surveying of informal settlements, land- use planning, pro poor policy development, support and advocacy and research on water and land administration. Welcoming the recognition awarded at the Polytechnic’s annual industry consultative breakfast on Monday, NHAG national coordinator Anna Muller said “This relationship with the Polytechnic is very important for future development planning in Namibia”. Muller said with NHAG the students have the opportunity to learn what is happening in urban areas and informal settlements, and become aware of the important roles that...

Announcing preliminary results from 33,272 household surveys   The preliminary informal settlements socioeconomic survey results were presented by the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) at the Community Land Information Programme (CLIP) review on 25 September 2014 at the Habitat Research and Development Centre in Windhoek.   The data presented was collected by informal settlement residents in collaboration with their Local and Regional Authorities in 116 informal settlements in 64 urban areas in Namibia through the CLIP. The first profiling of informal settlements was completed in 2008 when communities profiled 235 informal settlements (with an estimated population of 500,000) with the support of the SDFN and the Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG).  The second phase of CLIP, which is the door-to-door socioeconomic enumeration of households and settlement mapping, to date covered a total 33,276 households with a total 213,459 occupants in both informal ...

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