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WOMEN-LED URBAN
RESILIENCE
Dharmistha,
ACCCRN Learning Forum 2016,
Semarang, Indonesia

Mahila Housing SEWA Trust
Committed to Dignified Homes, Dignified Work and
Dignified Lives for informal sector women workers

WHOSE RESILIENCE IS AT STAKE…..

NOT OF SLUMS OR CITIES, BUT OF PEOPLE……

WHO KNOW THEIR CONTEXT….

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AS ALSO THE SOLUTIONS….

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SO WHAT WE DO?
LET PEOPLE SET THE AGENDA AND WORK WITH
THEM FOR……

BUILDING TRUST….

ENGAGING LOCALLY….

BUILDING CAPACITIES….

PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT….

SIMPLE TOOLS….

EWS
Exposure to human faecal
pathogens

• Households in the
most were
distalnopart
ofwater
the
• There
storm
drains
in this settlement.
With
settlement,
complain
a mild shower, the lanes of get
of to 1 foot and

frequent
flooded
the water
wouldn’t
recede
for
nearly
half
overflowing
ofa
day. On such days, the drinking
manholes.
such
water
quality wasOn
also affected.
They
reported that thistheir
was
occasions,

because the most distal manholes
drinking water would
were not being cleaned out.
also smell of sewage.

VISUAL TOOLS….
Proximal manholes are
cleaned
with a high
• Some
of the lane
pressure vacuum
inspection chambers
equipment when
wereis lodged
broken and
complaint

either covered with
stone or left open.

Distal manholes remain
unattended for years

GRASSROOT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT….

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS….

OUR APPROACH
Defining our outcomes……

DEMYSTIFICATION OF CITY PROCESSES…..

CREATING SYSTEMATIC CHANGES…..

CREATING SYSTEMS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE SHARING…

INCUBATING INNOVATIONS

LIVELIHOOD FOCUSED….

TO SUM UP…..
Enhancing
Social Capital
of Women

VIKASINIS

Building on existing
knowledge-base
Trainings and Interaction
with Technical Experts
Directly undertaking pilot
projects within their
communities

Enhance
People’s
Technical

Competency

Community
Based
Organizations

Creating
Incentives
for Behavior
Change

Promoting multi-layered
women led people’s
institutions
Partnerships with other
stakeholders

Community
Action Groups

Community trust and peer
learning processes
Using communication
technologies to enable scale

THANK YOU