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Manifestations of 'capabilities poverty' with learners attending informal settlement schools
South African Journal of Education, 2009 In this study I use the notion of 'capabilities poverty', as theorised by Sen, to examine the experiences of learners attending informal settlement schools in North-West Province, South Africa.
Rouaan Maarman
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Informal settlement mapping is essential for planning, as well as resource and utility management. Developing efficient ways of determining the properties of informal settlements (when, where, and who) is critical for upgrading services and planning ...
Ahmad Fallatah +3 more
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, 2022 Magister Commercii - MComIn recent years there has been a rise of informal settlements in Cape Town, and other parts of the country. Informal settlements are not a new phenomenon in South Africa, due to apartheid spatial planning and segregated ...
Majola, Mfundo
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Barriers and opportunities for participatory environmental upgrading: Case study of Havelock informal settlement, Durban [PDF]
, 2020 Urbanisation is one of the key challenges of this decade with 68% of the global population likely to be living in urban areas by 2050. This challenge is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa where future towns and cities will see an influx of ...
Georgiadou, M. +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright +8 more
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Faecal sludge management practice in informal settlements of Bangladesh
Sustinere: Journal of Environment and Sustainability, 2023 Informal settlements suffer sanitation challenges of inadequate toilet facilities and a high accumulation rate of faecal sludge due to land crises and dense populations. However, settlement people who struggle with informal living, either way, manage to
Abu Towab Md. Shahriar +1 more
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NOVASINERGIA, 2023 At this point in Quito’s history, once legalized informal settlements and public housing complexes are consolidated, it is relevant to look back and evaluate these two types of housing.
Alejandro Ramos Albán +1 more
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The institutional challenges facing city of Windhoek in the Provision of water and sanitation services: a case study of The Havana informal settlement [PDF]
, 2020 Masters in Public Administration - MPAThis study examined the institutional challenges facing the City of Windhoek in the provision of water supply and sanitation in the Havana Informal Settlement.
Amutenya, Tekla
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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2022 The mismatch between the fast-growing urban population and limited urban infrastructure has become a challenge in many emerging cities. The lack of affordable housing leads to burgeoning informal settlements and Manohara informal settlement in Kathmandu ...
Prabhakar Lal Karn, Joon Park
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FORMS OF INFORMALITY AND ADAPTATIONS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS [PDF]
International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR, 2016 Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities across the global South. Forms of urban informality emerge and grow through some generative processes of self-organisation and incremental adaptations. While formal interventions have often failed to put an end to such a resilient and complex type of urbanism, the desire for ...
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