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Brainstorming Session - 1

Multipronged Approaches to Slum (Re)development

20th October 2022 Session Duration: 1.5 hours (11:45 am - 01:15 pm) Organiser: UN-Habitat

Session Brief

With significant population growth, while cities have expanded infrastructure, but rarely been ahead of the demand, specially affordable housing. Limited options are then available to the low-income segment, often leading to an increase in slums and squatter settlements. With every sixth Indian living in slums and 65 percent of our urban centres being a slum, slum upgrading or relocation programmes and projects are not unknown to the country. The ‘sites and services’ approach devised by the World Bank in Chennai, India in 1972 is one such approach where the focus shifted from supplying a fully serviced house to that of providing only serviced land. ”Sweat equity" and other resources of the beneficiaries in the actual construction of the house was used instead. With the above in mind, this session intends to give spotlight to the new and innovative elements in slum upgrading that ensure a green, healthy, economically prosperous, and equitable future to all. It also will attempt to unpack relocation and draw attention to key questions such as:

  • What elements should a comprehensive slum upgrading programme entail? What benefits do public spaces and streets bring for transformation within the settlements?
  • What are new and cutting-edge elements that will ensure these upgraded slums have a sustainable future? How can we include green jobs within the upgradation agenda?
  • How do we create context-specific engagement processes and establish local partnerships to involve the informal settlement dwellers?
  • Is relocation of slums a cost-effective answer or the only solution? What are other solutions and what benefits would they bring, for example ensuring livelihood continuity and socio-economic safety nets?
  • Are there opportunities to convert under-utilized urban land, urban regeneration as well as assessment of available under-utilized housing.

Speakers
Chair: Shri Kuldip Narayan, JS & MD (HFA), MoHUA
Moderator: Ms. Mansi Sachdev, Senior Urban Planner, UN-Habitat
Panel Discussion: (10 minutes each)
  • Sh. Jafar Malik, Executive Director- Kudumbshree, Kerala
  • Sh. Patrick Canagasingham, Chief Operating Officer, Habitat for Humanity
  • Ms. Kerstin Sommer, Project Manager, Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme, and Human Settlement Officer, UN-Habitat  
  • Mr. R. D. Padmakumar, Resource Person, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies
  • Ms. Manimekalai, Senior Planner, Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB)
* Speakers are to be confirmed

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Sh. Kuldip Narayan

JS&MD (HFA), MoHUA  

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Ms. Mansi Sachdev

Senior Urban Planner, UN-Habitat  

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Sh. Jafar Malik

Executive Director- Kudumbshree Kerala

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Sh. Patrick Canagasingham

Chief Operating Officer, Habitat for Humanity

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Ms. Kerstin Sommer

Project Manager, Participatory Slum Upgrading Programme, and Human Settlement Officer, UN-Habitat

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Mr. R. D. Padmakumar

Resource Person, Laurie Baker Centre for Habitat Studies  

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Ms. Manimekalai

Senior Planner, Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board (TNUHDB)  


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