Horizontal Learning Platforms (HLPs) are collective learning spaces where participants from community organisations learn from a cross-section of urban development role-players. HLPs create a space for sharing community development practice with input from participants of the Community Leadership Training Programme, and guest speakers from government and civil society. Participants are given the opportunity to document and discuss development processes underway in their own communities, and develop collective agendas for advocacy.

Previous Horizontal Learning Platforms

10 October 2009, Jubilee Centre, Cape Town -Urban Development, Democracy and Community Development.

This event allowed community leaders and members of community organisations to discuss the extent of their participation in current urban development and land management decision-making. The session focussed on how communities can participate in, and influence, how, urban land is managed and used to facilitate increased access to well-located land for the poor.

13 March 2010, Jubilee Centre, Cape Town -Community Mobilisation, Advocacy and Lobbying.

This event specifically examined the People’s Housing Process and the imperative for its location on well-located urban land to facilitate the poor's right to the city. The session was a preliminary event leading up to DAG’s Indaba on People, Land and Housing which launched the three case studies of DAG’s experience in People’s Housing Process projects in Cape Town.