Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Urban housing and community development course

Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements

		Introduction
		World neighbors in action
		Human settlement managers training programme - handbook for the organization and design of courses
		Bridging the gap: A participatory approach to health and nutrition education
		Self-evaluation: Ideas for participatory evaluation of rural community development projects
		Local authority supervisor training program, Kenya
		Urban housing and community development course
		Teaching rural community development
		Organization and management of field education
		Project management program Harare, Zimbabwe
		Primer taller de capacitacion para mujeres dirigentes de organizaciones femininas en el districto de San Martin de porres
		Getting the community into the act: 72 participatory activities for field workers and trainers
		Board of director's course: Instructor's manual and handouts
		Tecnicas educativas
		Women and graphics: A beginner's kit
		The tribune: A women and development quarterly
		How to perform in front of an audience
		Audiovisual communication handbook
		Dialogar para construir, diseno participativo en barrios populares de Bogota
		Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.
		1. Como leer un plano - 2. Mejoramiento poblacional
		1. Sistema constructivo 'bend' - 2. Prefabricacion, sistema 'bend'
		1. El replanted - 2. Como construir una vivienda con calicanto - 3. Como construir una vivienda con bloques de concreto - 4. Como construir una vivienda con cinva-ram - 5. Como construir una vivienda con horcones y concreto
		Small-scale production of lime for buildings
		Making building blocks with the cinva-ram block press.
		Building with stabilised soil blocks
		Small-scale production of local building materials
		Manual para la construccion de vivienda con adobe
		Casas de tierra, Minka no. 9, october 1982
		Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.
		Sistematizacion de una practica tecnica en vivienda social
		Manual de autoconstruccion
		Manual de construcao moradias nas aldeias comunais.
		When you build a house: a manual of construction details for Caribbean houses with emphasis on protection from strong winds
		Cooler in summer/warmer in winter: How to improve your shha house
		Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing
		Affordable sanitation
		Making your house safe against strong winds
		A campaign plan for tinsa valley
		Cooperative housingaffordability and related technical solutions
		Co-operatives: the affordable housing alternative
		Managing housing co-ops' money
		Estructura interna de una cooperativa de vivienda: Pobladores y educacion no. 1
		Co-operative housing, a handbook for effective operations
		Co-op housing - The best move we ever made
		Ideas on proposal writing and financial/technical assistance
		Information and training materials for low-cost water supply and sanitation
		Self-help housing improvements for lowest-income communities: Motivators' and trainers' guide
		Manual para proyectos de ayuda mutua

Urban housing and community development course

PRODUCED BY: DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND HOUSING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, KENYA, 1982.

AVAILABLE FROM: UNESCO, POPULATION AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS DIVISION, 7 PLACE DE FONTENOY, 75700 PARIS, FRANCE.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST:

NUMBER OF PAGES: 134

This report is the result of a joint effort of the Department of Architecture and the Housing Research and Development Unit (HRDU), University of Nairobi, Kenya. It documents the contents of a training course on urban housing and community development for architecture students, reflecting a growing emphasis in architecture courses on involving students in real-life problems of communities. Central to this training course is the practical fieldwork carried out with the residents of Kabiro, a low-income urban community in Nairobi.

Taking Kabiro community as a case study, the students' task was to present a proposal to improve the environment of Kabiro by consolidating the dwellings and upgrading basic infrastructure and services. They carried out a user and physical survey and analysed the data collected on site. Community discussions were conducted to identify the residents' priorities and to formulate a framework for project planning.

The contents of the report cover all training stages: that is, students' advance preparation, the lecture course outlines, a discussion agenda, a case study, survey methods and results, as well as the students' plans and design proposals for the future development of Kabiro. The appendix provides a full set of student handouts, course programmes, field-survey instruction sheets, briefs for various assignments, a reading list and a bibliography.

This report is not a 'how-to-do-it' training manual; however, it would be useful to anyone providing retraining courses for housing professionals whose formal training did not include a practical planning component for sites-and-services and/or upgrading schemes with a focus on participatory community development. The content, format and training exercises provide an example of how training involving the community might be structured.