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Journal articles on the topic "Township and Informal settlement"

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Mudau, Naledzani, and Paidamwoyo Mhangara. "Investigation of Informal Settlement Indicators in a Densely Populated Area Using Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery." Sustainability 13, no. 9 (April 23, 2021): 4735. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13094735.

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Automation of informal settlements detection using satellite imagery remains a challenging task in urban remote sensing. This is due to the fact that informal settlements vary in shape, size and spatial arrangement from one region to the other in some cases within a city. This paper investigated the methodology to detect informal settlements in a densely populated township by assessing informal settlement indicators observed from very high spatial resolution satellite imagery. We assessed twelve informal settlement indicators to determine the most effective indicators to distinguish between informal and informal classes. These indicators included the spectral indices first and second-order statistical measurements. In addition to the commonly used informal settlement indicators, we assessed the effectiveness of built-up area and iron cover. The GLCM textural measures performed poorly in separating informal and formal settlements compared to first-order statistics measurement and spectral indices. The built-up area index, coastal blue index and the first-order statistics mean measurements produced higher separability distance of informal and formal settlements. The iron index performed better in separating the two settlement types than the commonly used GLCM measure and NDVI. The proposed ruleset that uses the three features with the highest separability distance achieved producer and user accuracies of informal settlements of 95% and 82%, respectively. The results of this study will contribute towards developing methodologies to automatically detect informal settlements.
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Taing, Lina. "Informal settlement janitorial services: implementation of a municipal job creation initiative in Cape Town, South Africa." Environment and Urbanization 29, no. 1 (February 2, 2017): 299–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247816684420.

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In 2011/12, the City of Cape Town announced that it would commence an on-site janitorial service for communal flush toilets in informal settlements throughout the metropolitan area. The dual objectives of the programme were to improve municipal sanitation services in informal settlements and to create new job opportunities in areas with high unemployment. This paper examines the janitorial programme’s development and administration in Cape Town’s largest township from 2011 to 2014, from the viewpoints of: (1) municipal sanitation officials; (2) civil society advocates; and (3) informal settlement residents employed as janitors. Interviews with key informants and observation of sanitation actors indicated that the implementation of the janitorial programme was mired in conflicting understandings of good governance and different prioritization of goals in multi-objective development initiatives. This case, in particular, points to a potential repercussion of including sanitation in multi-objective programming, for the administration of the job creation aspect took precedence and ultimately detracted from the janitorial programme’s servicing goal.
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Skuse, Andrew, and Thomas Cousins. "Spaces of Resistance: Informal Settlement, Communication and Community Organisation in a Cape Town Township." Urban Studies 44, no. 5-6 (May 2007): 979–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420980701256021.

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Charman, Andrew J. E., Leif M. Petersen, Laurence E. Piper, Rory Liedeman, and Teresa Legg. "Small Area Census Approach to Measure the Township Informal Economy in South Africa." Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11, no. 1 (July 8, 2016): 36–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1558689815572024.

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In this article, we describe a research approach to undertaking a small area census to identify informal economy activity, using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative tools. The method focuses on enterprise activity. The approach enables the researcher to record a broader spectrum of informal micro-enterprises through identifying businesses in situ within an area of sufficient scale to broadly reflect area-level market conditions and business dynamics. The approach comprises an enterprise census, a survey of all identified micro-enterprises in key sectors, in-depth interviews, and participatory research techniques. The article reports on the application of this method in eight case sites, located in township settlements within five major cities in South Africa. The research identified 9,400 individual enterprises, entailing 10,220 primary and secondary activities, distributed within a population of 325,000 and comprising 97,000 households. The approach permits significant advances to our understanding of the spatial dynamics of the informal sector. The research data has enabled the researcher to make original contributions to understanding informal enterprise activities in grocery retailing, liquor trade, and traditional medicine sectors.
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Petersen, Leif, and Andrew Charman. "The role of family in the township informal economy of food and drink in KwaMashu, South Africa." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 7-8 (July 9, 2018): 564–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-06-2017-0068.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative investigation of family employment dynamics in the KwaMashu township economy. Design/methodology/approach Using a small area census research method, the researchers identified 1,556 businesses located in a settlement of 2 km2. Of these enterprises, 694 (45 percent) traded in fast moving consumer goods, notably food and/or drink. The main retailers were small shops (spaza shops) and liquor outlets (bars or shebeens), greengrocers, sellers of meat and poultry products, house shops, restaurants, takeaways and tuckshops. Firm surveys were conducted with 270 businesses in four predominant sectors: liquor retail, grocery retail, early childhood educators and hair care businesses. Findings The research found that 40 percent of the surveyed firms in these sectors employ family members on a full-time basis, whereas merely 26 percent of firms employ family members on a part-time basis. In the grocery retail sector, about half of family employees are remunerated on a wage basis, the other half are paid in-kind (40 paper of the total) or on a profit share arrangement. In liquor retail and educare sectors, the majority of family members are paid wages. Female-run enterprises employ less family members on a full-time basis (except in the grocery sector), yet employ more family members on a part-time basis with a higher portion of wages paid in-kind. Research limitations/implications Family plays an important role in township enterprises. Beyond direct employment, township enterprises fulfill an important social protection and neighborhood relationship function for business operators and their families. The familial relationship to micro-enterprises should be seen through the lens of bricolage (Gras and Nason, 2015). Originality/value In this respect, the authors confirm three benefits of family firms: the creation of social protection though family beneficiation, the provision of employment and work experience and the strategic use of family resources.
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Naidoo, S., S. Piketh, and C. Curtis. "Quantification of Emissions Generated from Domestic Burning Activities from Townships in Johannesburg." Clean Air Journal 24, no. 1 (June 3, 2014): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/caj/2014/24/1.7047.

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Domestic burning activities, specifically in informal settlements, contribute greatly to the air quality problems experienced by most developing urban centres. Low-income households that exist within townships in South Africa house a large portion of the South African population. These households burn vast quantities of coal, wood and other substances to provide for their energy needs. Pollutants emitted as a result of domestic burning are estimated to be one of the leading causes of respiratory illnesses in inhabitants of townships. To better understand the relationship that exists between domestic burning and the resultant pollutants, a method of quantifying these pollutants has been developed for a completely un-electrified settlement, near Johannesburg, using the quantities and type of fuel consumed. Seasonality, availability, price and cultural aspects all have a bearing on the fuel source choice and the quantity consumed. The most significant temporal observations identified for domestic burning are seasonal ones.
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Forbes, Eben. "Migration, Informal Settlement, and Government Response: The Cases of Four Townships in Yangon, Myanmar." Moussons, no. 33 (May 30, 2019): 95–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/moussons.4943.

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Kerr, Philippa, Kevin Durrheim, and John Dixon. "Xenophobic Violence and Struggle Discourse in South Africa." Journal of Asian and African Studies 54, no. 7 (May 31, 2019): 995–1011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909619851827.

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This paper argues that xenophobia in South Africa is entangled in discourses of liberation struggle, which are often used to justify anti-foreigner violence. We first examine some existing academic explanations for xenophobia, namely internalised racism, poverty/inequality, nationalism, and township and informal settlement politics. To avoid deterministically explaining xenophobia as ‘caused’ by any of these factors, however, we introduce a concept from social psychology, the concept of ‘working models of contact’. These are common frames of reference in which contact between groups is understood in terms of shared meanings and values. Xenophobic violence is not caused but instantiated in ways that are explained and justified according to particular understandings of the meaning of the ‘citizen-foreigner’ relationship. We then review three case studies of xenophobic violence whose perpetrators constructed a model of contact in which African ‘foreigners’ were undermining the struggles of South Africans in various socio-economic contexts. We also examine three cases where xenophobic violence was actively discouraged by invoking an inclusive rather than divisive form of struggle discourse. Thus the nature of the struggle itself becomes contested. We conclude by considering some dilemmatic implications that our analysis provokes.
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Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku, Sarah de Villiers, Sumayya Mohamed, and Bonolo Mohulatsi. "Spatial Injustice in Johannesburg in the Time of COVID-19." Current History 120, no. 826 (May 1, 2021): 178–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/curh.2021.120.826.178.

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Densely populated informal housing has mushroomed in formerly segregated South African townships, attracting migrants who survive on the edges of the economy, excluded from basic services. In the pandemic, they have been even more vulnerable, unable to practice social distancing and forced to continue with marginal work such as scavenging to eke out a living. Drawing on interviews with residents of a Johannesburg settlement, the authors emphasize how urban space structures inequalities in every aspect of everyday life, requiring a new approach to city planning and governance with a focus on justice.
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Masquillier, Caroline. "Qualitative research as theater: fieldwork in a South African township through the prism of Goffman’s dramaturgical metaphor." Afrika Focus 29, no. 2 (February 26, 2016): 59–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-02902005.

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This autoethnographic paper reflects on the qualitative fieldwork I conducted in a township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. By exploring how a metaphor can assist in autoethnographic reflection, I aim to gain insight into how data can best be collected in deprived informal settlements characterized by high crime rates. This autoethnographic paper draws on the autobiographical materials of the researcher as primary data. This self-reflexive route, which relied on Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical metaphor, helped me to process my various fieldwork experiences in a more systematic manner. Attempting to reconcile my ‘work’ role – a professional, reliable and confidential advisor – with my ‘non-work’ role – my supposed real self – involved emotion management and the tools of the stage outlined by Goffman in order that the fieldwork could be conducted in an atmosphere of trust while maintaining a professional distance.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Township and Informal settlement"

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Barac, Matthew James Wilfrid. "From township to town : urban change in Victoria Mxenge TT informal settlement, Cape Town, South Africa." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252054.

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Mngqibisa, Ncedo Ivan Ntsasa. "The role of street committees in the governance of informal settlements : a case study from Waterworks Township, Grabouw." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8957.

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Community participation has become a key concept in research on the development and governance of underprivileged communities. It is on these grounds that the post-apartheid South African government has encouraged meaningful participation between local communities and the state, particularly through structures of local government. However, the role that street committees can play in the realisation of this ideal has received little attention from either government or academic scholars. For this reason, this study examines the role that the street committee in Waterworks, Grabouw, in the Western Cape plays in community governance. It analyses data from a qualitative study which took place between 2007 and 2008. In this thesis I argue that while the street committee has a role to play in the governance of the community, that role is limited by their lack of power. The street committee is not a statutory body and this hinders their ability to participate in local government issues. Despite these restrictions, the street committee in Waterworks was largely perceived by the local residents as doing their best in addressing pertinent issues. However, there were some who accused members of the street committee of nepotism and seeking political patronage.
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Thoka, Boitumelo. "Policy and regulation as enablers for early childhood development centres in townships and informal settlements." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75279.

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South Africa’s integrated policy on early childhood development makes provision for access to and delivery of equitable services to all children in South Africa. In his 2019 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa emphasised the importance of early childhood development (ECD) in the development of South Africa’s human capital. ECD centres in South Africa are faced with various financial and human resources challenges preventing them from registering with the Department of Social Development and accessing the per-child subsidy. Regulations governing ECD centres have been found to be lacking in support of social entrepreneurs operating in resources deprived areas such as informal settlements and townships, areas challenged by poverty and unemployment. Policies and regulations that cater to the social entrepreneurial context of operations have been found to be effective in addressing challenges related to the provisioning of social entrepreneurship related services. This study contributes to literature with respect to challenges facing ECD centres in informal settlements and townships and the literature on how government can use policy and regulation to remedy for challenges experienced by ECD centres operating in informal settlements and townships.
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Nampila, Tutaleni. "Assessing community participation : the Huidare informal settlement." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2238.

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Thesis (MPhil (Sustainable Development Planning and Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.
This study evaluates community participation in the Huidare Informal Settlement (HDIS) as a case study. The hypothesis is that the breach of trust between the previous community leaders of the HDIS and the current community members has an effect on community participation in issues affecting them and their community today. The research methodology employed is explained as well as the policy context for community participation both on an international level and in Namibia, is reviewed. The legislation on community participation that has been enforced by the City of Windhoek contradicts what happened in the HDIS. The possibility will be investigated as to whether these policy documents of the City of Windhoek are only another form of tokenism.
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Dyantyi, Unathi Sisikelelwe. "Revitalisation of the informal township economy in Mdantsane." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/15611.

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The main focus of this study was to perform an assessment of viable and sustainable means of creating a vibrant and sustainable economy in the Mdantsane Township. In order to perform the assessment objectives were formulated which aimed at assessing whether the informal small business sector of Mdantsane was generating wealth and livelihoods for the people running them. The study also looked at whether the informal business sector is a preferred option by most South Africans or people in the townships would rather seek employment. A number of data collection methods were used in completing this study such as literature reviews and a semi-structured questionnaire. The study revealed that Local Economic development can be implemented in the townships in order to assist in stimulating a vibrant local township economy. The study also revealed that the central focus of Local Economic Development is to support the development, growth and retention of private or co-operative enterprises. The survey conducted in the study further revealed that most businesses in the township are driven by necessity in order for them to start their businesses mainly due to unemployment. These businesses all agreed on the significant role that Local Economic Development can play in assisting township entrepreneurs and communities to grow and prosper.
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Herero, Jan Johannes. "Towards ecological sustainable sanitation : Oshiwana Penduka informal settlement." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21437.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study undertakes a scientific investigation into the social and environmental problems encountered by the Oshiwana Penduka informal settlement as a result of the lack of a proper sanitation system. This informal settlement is located on the periphery of the municipal boundaries of the town of Mariental in Southern Namibia, about 270 kilometres south of the capital, Windhoek. The unique problem faced by the settlement is the absence of sanitation facilities or sewage system as a method of solid waste management. Needless to say, the informal settlement is characterized by overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of housing, unemployment and poverty. From the literature review, it became clear that inadequate water supply and sanitation posed serious implications to the physical environment and human health. The literature also reveals that these core challenges are propagated by the continual influx of people to urban areas and the re-birth of irregular settlements. In light of the above, the problem statements to be addressed are the following, namely: what is the impact of the absence of a proper and sustainable sanitation system on the inhabitants of the Oshiwana Penduka informal settlement and what can be done by the Mariental Municipality to address the concerns raised? The key research methods applied for this study entails individual semi-structured questionnaires and key informant groups. The answers to the interviewed questions are highlighted in chapter four and the interpretation of the research findings are constituted in the latter chapter. The hypothesis was proven false and the new model of thinking generated is suggesting that the prevailing social and environmental problems are caused by the absence of toilet facilities. It is evident to note from the study results that the negative social impact, which is being attributed by inadequate sanitation in the informal settlement, is severe and lethal to human health. In order to prove the hypothesis, data has been collected at household levels from the informal settlers. Despite the survey results which support the conventional water borne sanitation as the most preferred sanitation system, vacuum system as an ecological sanitation technology is recommended for this informal settlement. This particular sanitation system works on the principle of enhancing water conservation, recycling, reduction of health, and promotes environmental integrity.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie onderneem ʼn wetenskaplike ondersoek na die sosiale en omgewingsprobleme, wat ondervind word deur die Oshiwana Penduka informele nedersetting en die gebrek aan ʼn behoorlike sanitasie stelsel. Hierdie betrokke informele nedersetting is geleë aan die buitewyke van die munisipale grense van die dorp Mariental. Die dorp Mariental is geleë in die suidelike deel van Namibië, ongeveer 270 km suid van die hoofstad Windhoek. Die unieke problem wat hierdie nedersetting ondervind is die afwesigheid van sanitasie fasiliteite of ʼn rioolstelsel wat ʼn soliede metode van goeie rioolbeheer is. Hierdie nedersetting word gekenmerk deur oorbevolking, swak sanitasie, gebrek aan behuising, werkloosheid en armoede. Vanuit die literatuurstudie, het dit aan die lig gekom dat onvoldoende water toevoer en sanitasie ernstige implikasies vir die fisiese omgewing en die menslike gesondheid inhou. Die literatuur het ook aan die lig gebring dat hierdie basiese probleme vererger word deur die aanhoudende invloei van mense na die stedelike gebiede. In die lig van bogenoemde, is die probleemstelling wat aangespreek moet word, soos volg: wat is die gevolge van ʼn gebrek aan ʼn behoorlike en volhoubare sanitasiestelsel vir die inwoners van die informele nedersetting en wat kan die Mariental Munisipaliteit doen om hierdie problem aan te spreek? Die navorsingsmetode wat aangewend word bevat individuele semi- gestruktureerde vraelyste en sleutel fokusgroepe. Die antwoorde op die onderhoudsvraelyste word vervat in hoofstuk vier en die vertolking van die navorsingsbevinding word in die daaropvolgende hoofstuk aangebied. Die hipoteses was verkeerd bewys en die alternatief wat gegenereer is, stel voor dat die bestaande sosiale en omgewingsprobleme veroorsaak word deur die afwesigheid van toilet fasiliteite. Ten spyte van die navorsingsresultate, wat ʼn watersanitasiestelsel as die meeste verkose stelsel ondersteun, word ʼn suigstelsel as ekologiese volhoubare tegnologie vir hierdie informele nedersetting aanbeveel. Hierdie betrokke sanitasiestelsel toon verskeie voordele, onder andere bewaring van water, vermindering van gesondheidsprobleme en die bevordering van omgewingsvolhoubaarheid.
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Du, Toit Nerina. "Informal settlement fires : addressing the issue in Kayamandi." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2641.

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Thesis (MPhil (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the issue of informal settlement fires, specifically in Kayamandi a township of Stellenbosch in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The study aims to identify the relevant role-players involved in addressing the issue and to understand the unique dynamics involved in this type of fires at the local level context. The study illuminates the main contextual factors that contribute to the perpetuation of informal settlement sprawl in South Africa and that relates to the risk and vulnerability experienced by informal settlement dwellers. A qualitative research approach was followed and a triangulation of data collection methods was used, combined with a relatively broad literature study to capture the complexity of the related issues. The contextual focus includes the macro-economic factors that contribute to the environment in which informal settlement fires occur, and furthermore, developmental, economic, political and social aspects and the related experience of poverty, urbanisation and unemployment. It was found that the theoretical underpinning of both the fields of Disaster Management and Community Development are relevant for analysis and addressing the research questions. Furthermore, that a relationship exists between the Disaster Management, Development and Community Development fields. This is particularly evident in Disaster Management policy and planning as related to prevention, mitigation, and public participation, such as community involvement in Community-Based Risk Assessments. Key findings suggest that local government in the demarcated study area has great influence on how the problem of informal settlement fires is addressed. From national to local municipality level, the State plays the largest role in addressing the issue and takes the responsibility for addressing informal settlement fires as part of disaster management mandates prescribed in legislation. The local government agenda as influenced by Disaster Management legislation include efforts related to awareness, education and training focused on Kayamandi as an informal settlement community and can be considered community development initiatives. This further relates to the view taken in the thesis that informal settlement fires are a social issue and not only an operational issue. Therefore the broad social, economic and political context and history were included and it was shown that the ‘problem’ of informal settlement fires is part of a greater developmental context and related processes. A variety of community development theories were chosen as a useful framework for analysis in this study and to approach issues of risk and vulnerability on a community level. It also presents a conceptual framework for including both non-governmental stake-holders and the affected community as role-players.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die kwessie van vure in informele nedersettings en spesifiek in Kayamandi, ‘n informele nedersetting van Stellenbosch in die Wes-Kaap provinsie van Suid- Afrika. Die doel van die studie is om die relevante rolspelers te identifiseer wat betrokke is by die aanspreek van die kwessie en om die unieke dinamika van vure in hierdie plaaslike konteks te verstaan. Hierdie studie beklemtoon die belangrikste kontekstuele faktore wat bydra tot die uitbreiding van informele nedersettings in Suid-Afrika en wat verband hou met die risiko en kwesbaarheid van inwoners van informele nedersettings. ‘n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsbenadering is gevolg en ‘n triangulasie van dataversamelingsmetodes is in hierdie studie gebruik. Dit is met ‘n relatief breë literatuur-studie gekombineer om die kompleksiteit van die verwante kwessies weer te gee. Die konteksuele fokus sluit in makro-ekonomiese faktore wat bydrae tot ‘n omgewing waarin informele nedersettingsbrande voorkom, en voorts, ontwikkelings-, ekonomiese-, politieke- en sosiale aspekte, sowel as die verwante ervaring van armoede, verstedeliking en werkloosheid. Daar is bevind dat die teoretiese begronding van beide die velde van Rampbestuur en Gemeenskapsontwikkeling relevant is vir ontleding en om die navorsingsvrae te kan beantwoord en dat daar ‘n verhouding tussen Rampbestuur, Ontwikkeling en meer spesifiek Gemeenskapsontwikkeling bestaan. Dit kom veral na vore in Rampbestuurbeleid en - beplanning soos van toepassing op voorkoming, mitigasie en publieke deelname. Van die belangrikste bevindinge suggereer dat die plaaslike regering in die gegewe studie die grootste invloed het oor hoe die probleem van brande in informele nedersettings aangespreek word. Van nasionale tot plaaslike vlakke neem die Staat die verantwoordelikheid vir die aanspreek van informele nedersettingsbrande, soos vervat in mandate wat deur rampbestuur wetgewing bepaal word. Die plaaslike regering se agenda soos bepaal deur Rampbestuur wetgewing bevat gemeenskapsontwikkelingsidees oor deelname en inklusiewe beplanning, bewusmaking, opvoeding en spesifieke opleidingsinitiatiewe wat op Kayamandi afgestem is. Dit sluit verder aan by die siening, soos geneem in die tesis, dat informele nedersettingsbrande meer as net ‘n operasionele kwessie is, maar ook ‘n sosiale dimensie insluit. Om hierdie rede word die breër sosiale, ekonomiese, politieke en historiese konteks in die studie ingesluit, soos wat dit op die ‘probleem’ van informele nedersettingsbrande as deel van die groter ontwikkelingskonteks en prosesse dui. ‘n Verskeidenheid van gemeenskapontwikkelingsteorieë is as ‘n bruikbare raamwerk geselekteer vir ontleding en as ‘n benadering om risiko en kwesbaarheid op gemeenskapsvlak aan te spreek. Dit bied ook ‘n konsepsuele raamwerk om beide nie-regeringsrolspelers en die geaffekteerde gemeenskap ook as rolspelers in te kan sluit.
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Jensen, Aleksander Oldrup, and Andreas Utklev Førsund. "RITA NAGAR : Development strategies for an informal settlement." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for arkitektur og billedkunst, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-26731.

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Sompani, Thozamile Matthews. "Delivery of environmental health services to Ducats informal settlement." Thesis, Cape Technikon, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/796.

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This study provides information on the provision of environmental health services to informal housing settlements by local authorities. A standard for Environmental Health Service delivery according to Government policies and legislation has been provided. Actual environmental health services delivered to Ducats informal settlement at the time (1992), have been compared to the services that should have been delivered by law. Baseline data have been compiled by means of questionnaires, in order to assist the different levels of government in addressing the housing and environmental health needs of the Ducat community. The nature of Environmental Health and the history of informal housing, more specific that of the Ducat informal housing settlement, have been determined. Limited environmental health services were rendered to informal housing settlements occupying land illegally during 1992. These environmental health services were limited to basic sanitation, water supply and refuse removal. Only pit latrines or bucket latrines were required as a means of sanitation, tanks for water supply and skips for the disposal of waste. Amatola Regional Services Council however rendered all the environmental health services required. Other environmental health aspects such as pest control, communicable disease control, air pollution control, radiation, occupational health issues, temperature extremes, lighting, ventilation, noise, social environment, food and meat hygiene were not required. This study has provided a set of Government policies and legislation, which should be considered in rendering environmental health services for housing in future. Uncertainty of the past decade, about rendering of Environmental Health services to people occupying land illegally, still persists. The Municipal Structures Act, 117 of 1998 requires the rendering of Environmental Health services by local authorities, but it does not state whether these services should be rendered to people occupying land illegally as well. Since this has been the biggest restriction in providing environmental health services in the past, it is recommended that Government address this uncertainty.
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SILVEIRA, MARCELO TEIXEIRA. "BUILDING 3D DETECTION AND EXTRACTION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENT AREAS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18257@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
A ocupação informal nas periferias dos centros urbanos brasileiros cresce de modo acelerado. O Sensoriamento Remoto provê técnicas eficientes para medir esta expansão. Em cidades com topografia acidentada, como o Rio de Janeiro, a expansão inicial, preponderantemente horizontal, acaba dando lugar à expansão vertical, à medida que novos pavimentos vão sendo construídos sobre edificações já existentes. Para estimar o crescimento de assentamentos deste tipo requerem-se, portanto, técnicas de medição 3D. Esta pesquisa propõe um método para produção de Modelos Digitais de Superfície (MDS) a partir de pares estereoscópicos de imagens fotogramétricas digitais. O método tem como entrada um MDS inicial calculado a partir de um par de imagens estereoscópicas sem qualquer conhecimento a priori da semântica da cena imageada. O MDS de entrada é então refinado levando-se em conta informação relativa à geometria das edificações identificadas. O método baseia-se no conhecimento a priori de que edificações em assentamentos informais de grandes centros urbanos no Brasil têm em geral altura aproximadamente constante. O processo envolve três passos principais: primeiramente são identificados os topos das edificações em cada par de imagens estereoscópicas. Em seguida, as regiões de topo homólogas são pareadas. O terceiro passo envolve a extração 3D das edificações. Ao final, obtém-se um MDS mais exato do que o inicial, além de uma imagem rotulada com a semântica dos objetos identificados. Os resultados obtidos com base nos experimentos realizados sobre imagens aéreas de uma área teste do município do Rio de Janeiro apresentaram uma melhora significativa de acurácia relativamente ao MDS de entrada.
Informal settlements in many Brazilian urban centers are growing up quickly. Remote Sensing techniques provide a cost-effective mean to measure such an expansion. In cities with rough topography, like the city of Rio de Janeiro, the initial expansion, predominantly horizontal, is gradually being shifted to vertical, as new floors are being built on the existing buildings. To estimate the changing of such type of buildings, 3D measuring techniques are required. This research proposes a method for generating Digital Surface Model (DSM) from digital photogrammetry techniques. The method takes an initial DSM calculated from a pair of stereoscopic images as input. These models have no knowledge of image scenes semantics. The input DSM is refined taking into account the information about the geometry of buildings identified by a process of segmentation and interpretation applied to both images of the stereo pair. The method is based on a priori knowledge that buildings from informal settlements in large urban centers in Brazil generally have their roof tops at approximately constant height (flat roofs). The process involves three main steps: firstly the tops of buildings are identified in each pair of stereoscopic images. Then, the regions corresponding to the top of the buildings are matched. The third step involves the 3D extraction of those buildings. Finally, the method generates a more accurate DSM plus an image label with the semantics of the identified buildings. The results obtained in the experiments on airborne imagery of a test area in the city of Rio de Janeiro showed a significant improvement in the original DSM, as it takes into account the semantics of the 3D reconstructed buildings.
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Aheeyar, M. M. M., author and Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, eds. Informal land fragmentation in settlement schemes. Colombo: Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute, 2013.

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Neal, Harley Buntin. Launius-Dillon settlement, Eastern Township, Franklin County, Illinois. Rockford, Ill: H.B. Neal (1716 Post Ave, Rockford 61103), 2005.

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Leach, Kimberly A. A reconstruction of pre-settlement vegetation: Lorne Township. Sudbury, Ont: Laurentian University, Department of Environmental Earth Sciences, 2001.

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Erlanger, Howard S. Cooperation or coercion?: Informal settlement in the divorce context. Madison, Wis: Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Law School, 1986.

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Akin, Marsoen Moore. Springs Settlement (Browning Township) Franklin County, Illinois, 1812-1872. Spokane, CA: United Litho, 1998.

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DeMarce, Virginia Easley. The French-Canadian settlement in Waterville Township, Pepin Co., Wisconsin. Arlington, VA (5635 N. 25th Rd., Arlington 22207): V.E. DeMarce, 1987.

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Wukas, Mark. The worn doorstep: Informal history of Northwestern University Settlement Association, 1891-1991. Chicago, Ill. (1400 Augusta Boulevard, Chicago 60622): The Association, 1991.

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McCarthy, J. J. Planning and sustainability: The challenge for project managers in informal settlement upgrade. Pietermaritzburg: Town and Regional Planning Commission, 1999.

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Tvedten, Inge. The Oshakati Human Settlement Improvement Project: The informal economy and income generation. Windhoek: Social Sciences Division, Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre, University of Namibia, 1994.

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McKeig, Cecelia M. Federal Dam: The settlement of Gould Township & the village of Federal Dam. [Federal Dam, Minn.]: C. McKeig, 1996.

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Ntema, John, Isobel Anderson, and Lochner Marais. "Housing and Possible Health Implications in Upgraded Informal Settlements: Evidence from Mangaung Township, South Africa." In Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, 71–85. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4424-2_5.

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Ntema, John. "Relocation and Informal Settlements Upgrading in South Africa: The Case Study of Mangaung Township, Free State Province." In Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, 177–92. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4424-2_10.

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Arefi, Mahyar. "Revisiting the “Informal Settlement” Phenomenon." In Learning from Informal Settlements in Iran, 9–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78408-3_2.

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Matamanda, Abraham R., Shamiso H. Mafuku, and Fortune Mangara. "Informal Settlement Upgrading Strategies: The Zimbabwean Experience." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 1–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_8-1.

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Matamanda, Abraham R., Shamiso H. Mafuku, and Fortune Mangara. "Informal Settlement Upgrading Strategies: The Zimbabwean Experience." In Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 316–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_8.

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Silva, Luis Manuel, Daniel J. Christie, Verónica Pardo-Argáez, and Wilson López López. "Psychosocial Accompaniment of Collective Nonviolent Resistance in an Informal Settlement." In Peace Psychology Book Series, 213–28. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77688-6_12.

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Kell, Catherine. "12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula." In Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 235. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/swll.4.17kel.

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Frediani, Alexandre Apsan. "Space and Capabilities: Approaching Informal Settlement Upgrading through a Capability Perspective." In The City in Urban Poverty, 64–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137367433_4.

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Vermisso, Emmanouil, Mate Thitisawat, Rachel Salazar, and Montiero Lamont. "Immersive Environments for Persistent Modelling and Generative Design Strategies in an Informal Settlement." In Impact: Design With All Senses, 766–78. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29829-6_59.

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Ward, Peter M. "Texas Self-Help Informal Settlement and Colonia Housing Conditions, Aging, and Health Status." In Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas, 267–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12598-5_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Township and Informal settlement"

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Bhangale, Ujwala, Vishal Rathod, Niraj Rajgor, Jignesh Rami, and Kuldeep Kurte. "Identification of informal settlement using Remote Sensing Images." In the International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2979779.2979876.

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Velghe, Fie. "Literacy acquisition, informal learning and mobile phones in a South African township." In ICTD 2013: International conference on information and communication technologies and development. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2516604.2516615.

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Grbic, Milena. "SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE RESOURCES INSIDE INFORMAL ROMA SETTLEMENT MICRO-ENVIRONMENTS." In 15th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM2015. Stef92 Technology, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2015/b62/s27.075.

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Chen, Chih-Hung, and Chih-Yu Chen. "From City-like Settlement to Industrial City: A Case of Urban Transformation in Huwei Township." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5923.

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From City-like Settlement to Industrial City: A Case of Urban Transformation in Huwei Township. Chih-Hung Chen¹, Chih-Yu Chen¹ ¹ Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University No.1, University Rd., East Dist., Tainan City 70101, Taiwan ROC E-mail: chihhungchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw Keywords (3-5): Industrial City, City-like Settlement, Morphological Process, Town-Plan Analysis, Sugar Refinery Conference topics and scale: City transformations City-like Settlement (German: Teilweise Stadtähnliche Siedlungen) (Schwarz, 1989; Sorre, 1952) plays an important role in the course of civilization, especially the development of industrial cities. Accordingly, this study utilizes Town-Plan Analysis (Conzen, 1960) to deconstruct the relationships between industrialization and settlement formation in order to illustrate the common origin of cities in Taiwan as a result of the emerging economy at the turn of the 20th century. The industrial city of Huwei, known as the “sugar city” with largest yields of cane sugar in Taiwan, had the largest-scale sugar refinery in pre-war East Asia (Williams, 1980). The city has grown and transformed with the factory during the four phases of morphological periods, which began at the establishment of the sugar refinery and worker housing in the middle of the fertile flooding plain in western Taiwan. The spatial arrangement was directed to operational and management efficiency, characterized by the simple grids and hierarchy of layout along the riverside. As the industry enlarged, the new urban core was planned to support the original settlement with shophouses accumulated in the small grids. Followed by postwar modernism (Schinz, 1989), the urban planning again extended the city boundary with larger and polygonal blocks. In the fourth phase, however, the sugar refinery downsized, leading to the conversion of the worker housing and the merging of the factory and the city that slowly brought to its present shape. The morphological process results in the concentric structure from the sugar refinery, providing valuable references for the preservation of the sugar industry townscape, and unveils the influence of industrialization as well as the special urban development pattern in Taiwan. References (100 words) Conzen, M. R. G. (1960) Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town-Plan Analysis, 2nd edition (1969), (Institute of British Geographers, London). Schinz, A. (1989) Cities in China (Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin and Stuugart). Schwarz, G. (1959) Allgemeine Siedlungsgeographie (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin). Sorre, M. (1952) Les Fondements de la géographie humaine (Reliure inconnue, Paris). Williams, J. F. (1980) Sugar: the sweetener in Taiwan’s development. In Ronald, G. K. (ed.), China’s island frontier. Studies in the historical geography of Taiwan, pp. 219-251. (University of Hawaii Press and the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu)
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Makonese, T., D. M. Masekameni, and H. J. Annegarn. "Energy use scenarios in an informal urban settlement in Johannesburg, South Africa." In 2016 International Conference on the Domestic Use of Energy (DUE). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/due.2016.7466703.

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Jolley, Victoria. "Central Lancashire New Town: the hidden polycentric supercity." In 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/isuf2017.2017.5945.

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From 1962 Lancashire, in England, became the focus of a major renewal scheme: the creation of a ‘super-city’ for 500,000 people. The last and largest New Town designated under the 1965 Act, Central Lancashire New Town (CLNT) differed from other New Towns. Although influenced by the ideals and example of Garden City model, its master plan followed new and proposed infrastructure to connect the sub-region’s poly-centricity. By unifying and expanding existing towns and settlements it aimed to generate prosperity on a sub-regional scale using the New Towns Act, rather than creating a single new self-sufficient urban development. CLNT’s scale, poly-centricity and theoretical growth made it unique compared to other new town typologies and, although not realised, its planning can be traced across Lancashire’s urban and rural landscape by communication networks and city-scale public and civic buildings. With reference to diagrams for the British New Towns of Hook, Milton Keynes and Civilia, this paper will contextualize and evaluate CLNT’s theoretical layout and its proposed expansion based on interdependent townships, districts and ‘localities’. The paper will conclude by comparing CLNT’s theoretical diagram with its proposed application and adaptation to the sub-region’s topographical physical setting. Keywords (3-5): Lancashire, New Towns, urban centres and pattern Conference topics and scale: Reading and regenerating the informal city References (100 words) RMJM (1967) in Ministry of Housing and Local Government (1967). Central Lancashire: Study for a City: Consultants’ Proposals for Designation, HMSO. Ministry of Housing and Local Government (1967). Central Lancashire: Study for a City: Consultants’ Proposals for Designation, HMSO.
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Kundu, Ratoola. "The informal syndicate Raj: Emerging urban governance challenges in newly incorporated." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/nnxq9422.

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Peri-urban spaces in the Global South are regarded as sites of radical and often violent of transformation of social and spatial structures, of brutal dispossessions of lives and livelihoods to make way for speculative real estate development and the accumulation of capital through the expropriation and commodification of land. What kinds of politics and governance configurations emerge in the peri-urban areas of mega-cities? A host of state and non-state actors such as developers, aspiring middle-class urban dwellers are reimagining these sites. This paper investigates the complex governance and livelihood transformations following the upgradation of Bidhan Municipality to a Corporation in 2015 through the state driven merger of the existing planned satellite township of Salt Lake with the surrounding unplanned rural and urban areas. The paper argues that a new politics of unsteady alliances characterises the messy, unsettled and restless territories of the newly formed Municipal Corporation. A highly contingent, informalised and powerful configuration of non-state actors – locally known as Syndicates control the development dynamics and political fortunes of the periphery
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Tshabeni, Thulisa, and Peter Freere. "Comparison of informal settlement electrification: A case study at seaview, eastern cape, South Africa." In 2017 IEEE AFRICON. IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/afrcon.2017.8095589.

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KOCH, CHRISTIAN, OSCAR FRAUSTO MARTÍNEZ, STEFFEN GIESE, MATTHIAS SCHIRMER, DANIEL RAABE, SABINE GEIß, and UWE MÜNCH. "PHARMACEUTICALS IN THE GROUNDWATER OF THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENT “LAS FINCAS” ON COZUMEL ISLAND, MEXICO." In COASTAL CITIES 2017. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/cc170191.

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Steenbeck, T. L., O. Frausto Martinez, M. Schirmer, C. Koch, and S. Giese. "Sustainable waste management: the example of the informal settlement “Las Fincas” on Cozumel Island, Mexico." In WASTE MANAGEMENT 2016. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/wm160171.

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Reports on the topic "Township and Informal settlement"

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Carter, Becky. Strengthening Gender Equality in Decision-making in Somaliland. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.078.

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This rapid review searched for literature on how and why women continue to struggle in Somaliland to achieve formal political representation and to take on informal decision-making roles on local peace and political matters, from community to national levels. Women’s participation in peacebuilding and political decision-making in Somaliland is very limited. A key barrier is the clan system underpinning Somaliland’s political settlement. Entrenched and politicised, patriarchal clans exclude women (and other minority groups) from formal and customary leadership and decision-making roles. Other contributing factors are conservative religious attitudes and traditional gender norms. Structural inequalities – such as low levels of education, lack of funds, and high levels of violence towards women and girls – impede women’s participation. Some women are more disempowered than others, such as women from minority clans and internally displaced women. However, there is increasing disillusionment with clan politicisation and a growing recognition of women’s value. There are opportunities for framing gender equality in local cultural and religious terms and supporting grassroots activism.
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