Research Projects
UKRI GCRF: Water & Fire
This 3-year research project aimed to directly address disaster risk management of three interconnected environmental hazards related to water and fire in marginalized, urban Cape Town communities. We tested new methods of complementary democratic and creative engagement to advocate community-driven solutions and resilience action in response to such hazards. The project brought together principles of disaster risk management with the democratic prioritization of risk reduction at a local level, while developing intervention strategies and sharing findings with local government and other stakeholders through a community-driven coproduced process.
Cities Support Programme
Cities Support Programme Township Economic Development (CSP TED) is a National Treasury (NT) funded project providing three years of multi-disciplinary technical support to five metropolitan municipalities. This project seeks to pilot a transversal, participatory approach to township economic development to strategize, plan, fund, implement and monitor projects within specific townships to achieve a meaningful economic development impact and institutionalise TED in the metros. SLF is the lead agency providing technical assistance.
Kariega Township Development (KTD) Pilot Project
The Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation NPC (SLF) collaborated with the Volkswagen Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Trust (VBBBEE Trust) to implement the Kariega Township Development (KTD) Pilot Project. The project aimed to showcase a business development support approach suitable to informal micro-enterprises in the township economies surrounding the town of Kariega, Eastern Cape.
Our Team
Abongile Mfaku
Albida McMillan
Andrew Charman
Anthony Muteti
Gill Black
Leif Petersen
Zani Lamb
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