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
CRS, which has been active in Malawi since 2015, helped to respond to Tropical Cyclone Chedza (2015), then Cyclone Idai (2019), and finally Cyclones Ana and Combe (2022), with the support of two main local partners, CARD Malawi and CADECOM. The aim of the CRAterre mission was to understand the nature of CRS’s operations in Malawi, to provide technical expertise for ongoing projects, and to explore, together with the head of the FPL’s international division, avenues for collaboration in the coming years between the FPL, CRS Malawi and its local partners, CARD and CADECOM.
Results
- Visits to completed and ongoing projects at sites where CRS and its partners are working: to understand the proposed approaches, analyse practices (shelter design, production of materials, construction, etc.) and make recommendations to improve existing arrangements,
- Meetings with academic partners, government representatives and civil society organisations,
- Prospects for partnership.
Project partners
UrbaSEN, Grdr, Padem, Lumanti, CADECOM, CARD
CRS Malawi, CARD Malawi, CADECOM
Financing
Fondation pour le Logement des Défavorisés
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