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Six Slum Dwellers International and case studies

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Abstract

This chapter explores the development of Slum Dwellers International (SDI). SDI have developed a network that operates in 33 countries and works to promote the interests of poor and excluded communities. In doing so SDI has created a change model that provides a contemporary and global variation on the traditional community organising approach. A particular feature of SDI’s work is the importance given to the active role of women and importance of savings. The chapter discusses the work of SDI through case studies in Cape Town, India and Cambodia

Abstract

This chapter explores the development of Slum Dwellers International (SDI). SDI have developed a network that operates in 33 countries and works to promote the interests of poor and excluded communities. In doing so SDI has created a change model that provides a contemporary and global variation on the traditional community organising approach. A particular feature of SDI’s work is the importance given to the active role of women and importance of savings. The chapter discusses the work of SDI through case studies in Cape Town, India and Cambodia

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of tables, figures and boxes vi
  4. About the authors vii
  5. Introduction ix
  6. The roots of community organising 1
  7. The 21st-century context of community organising 19
  8. Community organising revisited: the Industrial Areas Foundation model 45
  9. Industrial Areas Foundation in the UK and Australia 67
  10. The ACORN alternative 89
  11. Slum Dwellers International and case studies 111
  12. New models of community organising 139
  13. Comparing and contrasting current community organising models 157
  14. What community organising does and doesn’t achieve 167
  15. Counter-hegemony, critical thinking and community organising 177
  16. Endnote 193
  17. References 195
  18. Index 207
International Community Organising
This chapter is in the book International Community Organising
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781847429780-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of tables, figures and boxes vi
  4. About the authors vii
  5. Introduction ix
  6. The roots of community organising 1
  7. The 21st-century context of community organising 19
  8. Community organising revisited: the Industrial Areas Foundation model 45
  9. Industrial Areas Foundation in the UK and Australia 67
  10. The ACORN alternative 89
  11. Slum Dwellers International and case studies 111
  12. New models of community organising 139
  13. Comparing and contrasting current community organising models 157
  14. What community organising does and doesn’t achieve 167
  15. Counter-hegemony, critical thinking and community organising 177
  16. Endnote 193
  17. References 195
  18. Index 207
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