The city of Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province, is one of the major destinations for Mozambique’s internally displaced people. In this fragile context that WFP and AVSI Foundation developed a project entitled “Improving resilience through Assets Creation activities and Home-grown school feeding of displaced and host communities in Cabo Delgado” with the aim to …
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The consultancy developed for UNDP (United Nations Development Program) and Pulse-Lab Jakarta concerns the collection and synthesis of the most innovative participation methods used by local or international organizations in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In particular, the research investigates methods and technologies for the collective mapping of informal neighborhoods, participatory slum upgrading initiatives and …
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COVID-FREE is a collective collection of best practices and bottom-up actions developed by local communities in Africa in order to contain the spread of epidemics. Our goal is the dissemination of simple, creative, economic and tested solutions so as to expand the defense opportunities from outbreaks, especially in the most disadvantaged communities. Everyone is invited …
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The research develops a new methodological intervention model for improving slums in West Africa. Based on an incremental approach the method propose a series of minimal actions with tangible effects. The method is based on strengthening and extending the unwritten rules of self-organization already present in different slums, proposing micro-improvement plans based on strategies and …
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Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone, is unique among West African towns as it was founded by British philanthropists in 1789 to give an home to freed African slaves. Liberated slaves from different African cultures built a polycentric town, made by small ethnic villages with different languages, religious beliefs and traditions. During the recent rebel …
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