Community Toolkit

The government has an important role to play in community-driven housing. It should create an enabling environment in which community-driven housing can take place and thrive by ensuring that [...]

Making space for participation does have cost implications but excluding people from development processes also has cost implications. For example, excluded groups can later delay and completely [...]

Community-driven housing works but these processes need to be skillfully and patiently supported. Capacity needs to be built for collective decision making and consensus building in community [...]

There are many examples that demonstrate that community-driven housing processes can achieve satisfactory technical results and that in many cases the results may even be superior to those [...]

Participatory development processes take time but DAG’s experience shows that when those who stand to benefit are actively involved they are easily committed to doing whatever it takes to fast [...]

No, community-driven housing can be implemented by communities independently or in partnership with NGOs, public officials or private developers provided that the beneficiaries (and other [...]

Community-driven housing is an approach to housing development in which the beneficiaries and directly affected communities control the process and are the key decision-makers at every stage of [...]