Healthy & Equitable Communities:
Global Learning & Practice Exchange
The initial program will link practitioners from Richmond and Oakland, California, with Shack/Slum Dweller International practitioners from Africa and Asia. The project includes sharing of cross-cultural strategies for power building and community improvement, followed by face-to-face workshops, field visits, and exploration of joint work.
Outcomes
Key Tenets
Objectives
Why SDI and Bay Area Activists?
Outcomes
- a global network of healthy community builders
- a resource guide for linking slum upgrading practices in the global south to health equity strategies in the north
- new projects in the US that utilize insights from slum upgrading in the global south
- global communication platform to share successful strategies and challenges for building healthy communities
Key Tenets
- South-North and North-South exchanges can lift up and expand community change efforts in cities around the world.
- The current SDI exchange model is a key tool in network power.
- The SDI model has had success and potential lessons for U.S.-based activists.
- SF Bay Area activists and SDI, though a 18-24 month exchange, can share strategies to address the challenges of economic opportunity, preventing displacement, safety and wellbeing, and more.
Objectives
- Connect efforts and practitioners.
- Create a space for cross-cultural learning.
- Build a global community health equity network.
- Exchange data and practices.
- Conduct two exchange workshops over next 18 months with 6-8 SDI participants and 6-8 Bay Area participants.
- Propose joint projects and/or interventions.
- Measure progress and develop online materials and media/communications support.
Why SDI and Bay Area Activists?
- The SDI slum upgrading approach has much to offer U.S.-based healthy community building efforts.
- Richmond and East Oakland activists can share innovative practices that might enhance slum upgrading work around the world.
- UC Berkeley can provide a platform for cross-cultural collaboration and practice exchange with long-term community partners.
- SDI and Bay Area activists work within different cultural and political contexts but are addressing similar community challenges, including poverty and economic opportunity, community infrastructure, housing and displacement, safety and wellbeing, and rights and social justice policies.
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