Slum Upgrading and Housing Policy Training Course

Participants can develop a settlement profile and rank upgrading needs using transparent evidence criteria.

• Settlement profiling using household surveys, transect walks, aerial imagery and administrative records
• Baseline indicators covering population, tenure, services, livelihoods, vulnerability and assets
• Participatory mapping of facilities, hazards, access routes and community infrastructure
• Multi-criteria analysis weighting public health, safety, poverty, feasibility and urgency
• Spatial analysis identifying service gaps, flood exposure and connectivity constraints
• Data quality checks for sampling bias, missing records and contested boundaries
• Prioritisation matrices distinguishing citywide needs from settlement-specific investment packages

Participants can assess tenure conditions and select proportionate regularisation or occupancy protection measures.

• Continuum of land rights from occupancy recognition to registered ownership
• Social Tenure Domain Model concepts for recording social land relationships
• Parcel, structure and household enumeration methods supporting tenure evidence
• Regularisation options: occupancy certificates, leases, collective tenure and titles
• Land readjustment mechanisms for servicing, reblocking and value sharing
• Safeguards against speculation, distress sales and exclusion after regularisation
• Legal due diligence covering public land, claims, easements and development controls

Participants can establish participation arrangements that give residents defined roles in upgrading decisions.

• Stakeholder mapping of residents, landlords, tenants, leaders, utilities and political actors
• Community development agreements defining roles, contributions, decisions and disclosure commitments
• Representative structures addressing women, tenants, youth, persons with disabilities and migrants
• Facilitated needs assessment separating household preferences from public infrastructure priorities
• Grievance redress mechanisms with intake channels, response times and escalation routes
• Social accountability tools: public budgets, scorecards, noticeboards and community monitoring
• Conflict analysis addressing leadership disputes, compensation claims and boundary disagreements

Participants can prepare phased service upgrading concepts suited to dense, occupied settlements.

• Incremental infrastructure planning for water, sanitation, drainage, roads and solid waste
• Service-level standards matched to density, topography, affordability and maintenance capacity
• Reblocking techniques creating access corridors, plots and infrastructure alignments
• On-site sanitation options assessed through soil conditions, groundwater and emptying access
• Drainage catchment analysis linking settlement works to downstream municipal systems
• Asset management plans defining ownership, operations, maintenance and replacement responsibilities
• Construction sequencing that minimises disruption to homes, businesses and pedestrian access

Participants can compare housing policy instruments against household affordability, land supply and municipal capacity.

• Housing needs assessment separating backlog, overcrowding, quality deficits and future demand
• Affordability analysis using household income, housing costs and residual income
• Incremental housing support through serviced plots, technical assistance and microfinance
• Rental housing policy addressing tenant protection, landlord incentives and supply constraints
• Inclusionary housing requirements assessed against land values, viability and enforcement
• Public land management for affordable housing, relocation sites and social facilities
• Housing subsidies compared by targeting accuracy, fiscal cost and market effects

Participants can assemble financing and institutional arrangements for a phased upgrading programme.

• Capital and recurrent cost estimates for settlement infrastructure and housing support
• Municipal revenue sources: property tax, user charges, transfers and land-based finance
• Financial planning using multi-year budgets, cash flow forecasts and funding gaps
• Cost recovery choices for connections, sanitation, waste collection and maintenance
• Blended financing roles for municipalities, utilities, communities, lenders and development partners
• Programme management units defining authority, staffing, procurement and reporting lines
• Interdepartmental coordination protocols for planning, land, finance, works and social services

Participants can determine when relocation is justified and prepare safeguards for affected households.

• Decision criteria distinguishing in-situ upgrading, partial relocation and full resettlement
• Avoidance and minimisation hierarchy applied to displacement risks and project design
• Census and asset inventory methods establishing affected-person eligibility
• Livelihood restoration planning for traders, home workers, renters and informal businesses
• Resettlement site assessment covering transport, jobs, schools, services and tenure
• Compensation frameworks addressing structures, assets, moving costs and transition support
• Post-relocation monitoring of occupancy, income, service access and grievance outcomes

Participants can incorporate climate, health and equity risks into upgrading priorities and designs.

• Climate risk screening for floods, heat, landslides, storms and water scarcity
• Nature-based drainage measures using retention areas, vegetation and permeable surfaces
• Public health risk assessment covering sanitation, vectors, indoor air and waste
• Gender analysis of safety, mobility, tenure security and unpaid care burdens
• Universal design principles for accessible paths, sanitation facilities and public spaces
• Emergency preparedness plans linking settlement committees, utilities and municipal responders
• Resilience indicators tracking exposure reduction, service continuity and household recovery

Participants can convert upgrading and housing policy priorities into a monitored implementation plan.

• Theory of change linking activities, outputs, outcomes and settlement-level impacts
• Results frameworks with indicators, baselines, targets, sources and reporting frequencies
• Procurement packaging for surveys, works, supervision, community facilitation and maintenance
• Risk registers covering land disputes, cost escalation, political interference and climate events
• Implementation roadmaps sequencing approvals, engagement, design, construction and handover
• Policy review checklist testing consistency among housing, land, infrastructure and fiscal measures
• Ninety-day application plan assigning actions, owners, milestones and evidence requirements