14-16 November 2023, at NUST

Informal settlements are today the places in which most people living in urban areas find themselves in the African continent. Differently from the way in which this happened in other geographies, like Latin American and Southeast Asia, this takes place at a time where digital tools are widespread and becoming increasingly available for the urban poor. The intersection of urban technology and interventions in informal settlements is therefore a crucial area of interest both for urban development actors.

19-30 June, 2023; facilitated by Dr Kathryn Ewing and Office for Urban Resilience (O-RU)

The workshop aims to advance the debate on urban development beyond the provision of public services and housing by focusing on intent: what kind of urban life are we creating?

The Institute for Land, Livelihoods and Housing Management (ILLH) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been selected as the implementing partner for the project “Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading in Namibia. Urban diagnostics and informal settlement upgrading strategies in Namibia” with UN Habitat, the Namibia Housing Action Group (NHAG), the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), in partnership with the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD), the City of Windhoek and a selection of local authorities in Namibia.

Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on Revision of the National Housing Policy and the Development of the National Strategy for Informal Settlement Upgrading
Date: 16-17 February 2022
Venue: Safari Court Hotel & Conference Centre

Two policy briefs released by ICLEI Africa and co-supported by ILMI and various other partners are available now online. The publications were developed in the context of the “Peri-Urban Resilient Ecosystems” partnership, read more about it here.

This article is a dispatch from the "Namibian Journal for Social Justice" project led by Herbert Jauch and collaborators from colleagues from the Economic and Social Justice Trust. Read more about the project HERE.

(Photograph credit: Office of the First Lady)

DOWNLOAD THE PUBLICATION HERE.

Download the fact sheets on issues of housing, urban land, communal land, land reform, ancestral land and informal settlements in Namibia.

These fact sheets were developed on the occasion of the 'Short course for journalists on land matters', which took place on Thursday, September 6th, 2018.

The fact sheets are available for download here:

Partnership with the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Working Group on Land Reform (WGLR), with support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018; 9h00-12h30

This third event of ‘The New Land Question’ programme focused on the urban land question from the civil society perspective.

Short course for journalists on land matters
Thursday, September 6th, 2018, 8h30-13h30, NUST Hotel School

The role of the media in the public discourse in Namibia is considerable. At the same time, despite the widespread use of social media, the youth appears to have a higher degree of trust in printed media .