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SAHF Education & Training
3-day collaborative housing development workshop/course
Overview
Government everywhere finds it very difficult to achieve
real and lasting success in low-income housing without
involving communities and other stakeholders in the
process. Community-based organisations have also found
it difficult to become successful developers without a
strong association with government and other sectors.
However, the greatest challenge for either party has been
to reach out and create the collaborations across sectors
that are so essential. Development professionals have
been trained to serve their paymasters, not to enable
collaborations. Although collaboration is so important it is
invariably a last resort, by which time much goodwill and
resources have been dissipated.
This three-day course explores the nature of successful
collaborations, the necessary ingredients, the required
processes, the pitfalls to be anticipated and the skills that
must be acquired. The course will be interactive and
designed to help delegates apply the subject matter to
their own circumstances.
Day 1: will focus on the principles, possibilities and
processes of collaborative development and require
delegates to formulate a collaborative process and
programme to apply to a project of their choice.
Day 2: will concentrate upon the structures, agreements
and linkages necessary to accommodate such a
collaborative process and will enable delegates to add
form and structure to their proposed process.
Day 3: will address how process and structure can be
integrated, managed and enabled to achieve sustained
success.
Delegates will receive a pack of documents on registration
– mainly strategic design diagrams and tables rather than
lengthy texts. The course will be directed at anyone who is
responsible for managing, implementing or facilitating
constructive responses to low-cost housing issues, or who
would like to play such a role. Delegates may therefore
come from the public sector (municipalities, provincial
departments, housing agencies), civil society (NGOs,
community-based organisations or welfare groups) or the
private sector (e.g. consultants, project coordinators &
facilitators) – the more diverse the better.
Applicants will be required in advance to complete the
preliminary section of the Course Evaluation Form by
providing reasons for their interest in collaboration and a
brief outline of the projects and challenges that they wish
to address.
This information will be used in three ways: to help inform
the nature of the course input; it will be summarised in a
directory of all delegates to promote intercommunication;
and it will provide each delegate with a
baseline from which to complete the Course Evaluation
Form at the end of the programme.
Course Presenter
Gerry Adlard is a Development Consultant who has
facilitated a variety of collaborative responses to the
housing needs of the poor since 1984, most notably by
coordinating the ‘iSLP’ the state's R1.2 billion flagship
integrated development project from 1992 to 2005. He
has consulted to provincial and local government,
organised business, the United Nations Development
Programme in Southern Sudan and the World Bank
Institute. In recent years he has focused on the
incremental and participative improvement of informal
settlements, the creation of partnerships for that purpose
and on researching the application of large-scale crosssector
collaboration, on which he is compiling a book for
publication. He is now devoted to fostering a new
generation of development enablers and to the
application of collaborative techniques to other spheres of
development.
Venue: University of Stellenbosch, Bellville Campus,
Carl Cronje Drive, Bellville, Cape Town
Date: 9-11 October 2013
The course fee covers lecture notes, refreshments and
lunch.
For further information or to register please email
education@sahf.org.za or call 021 987 7950.
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