Contexte
Since 2010, the Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés (FPL) and CRAterre have been working in partnership to help the most disadvantaged people gain access to decent housing. In June 2023, the FPL renewed its trust in CRAterre for a further three years. This gave rise to the ‘Networking to promote access to decent housing’ project, the aim of which is to support FPL's international partners in developing methods and tools to improve the response to people's access to decent housing.
The aim of this project is to support FPL's international partners in the development of methods and tools to improve people's access to decent housing. The project has 2 main focuses.
The first involves providing CRAterre's expertise to FPL's partner organisations that express a need for it.
The second involves coordinating the network of FPL partners in order to co-develop methods and tools relating to housing, associated with the themes of respect for production methods, gender and climate change.
Objectives
UrbaSEN implements projects focusing on urban regeneration, land tenure regularisation, flood management, housing reconstruction, training for craftspeople, and the organisation and empowerment of residents’ groups to encourage greater participation in community life. To this end, urbaSEN supports the establishment of savings groups within the Senegalese Federation of Residents (FSH). Founded in 2014, the FSH has evolved from a network of around twenty savings groups mobilised to rehabilitate homes damaged by flooding in the commune of Djiddah Thiaroye Kao in Pikine, into a citizens’ organisation with over 15,000 members. The activities of urbaSEN and the FSH are supported by urbaMonde, a Franco-Swiss NGO that provides technical support to residents involved in collaborative housing projects, as well as to public sector stakeholders in the context of participatory urban development projects. It was within this partnership framework that the Cité FSH project was launched. Its aim is to provide access to decent housing for at least 150 households, and to develop a model for the provision of affordable and suitable housing that can be replicated in other areas. This MSP forms part of the second year of the project supported by the Pour Le Logement Foundation, entitled ‘Cité FSH – Accessible housing for the most vulnerable: a pilot project in sustainable construction’.
The aim of this assignment was to contribute to the design and development activities carried out as part of the Cité-FSH project led by the Fédération Sénégalaise des Habitants (FSH), UrbaSEN and Urbamonde.
Results
- Support for the planning and establishment of the earth-based construction (BTC) production area on the site of the future FSH housing estate
- Involvement in the ongoing technical and architectural design of the housing units
Support with technical training for craftspeople (BTC, typha, etc.) - Participation in the organisation of team activities aimed at systematising the knowledge acquired in the fields of earthen construction and bioclimatic design
Partners
UrbaSEN, Grdr, Padem, Lumanti, CADECOM, CARD
Fédération Sénégalaise des Habitants, Urbamonde
Financing
Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés
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