Title:Speaker Series #6 – Urban Informality

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قسمتي از متن فيلم: Resilient cities network and we are convening this session with our partners from the World Bank this is a practitioner dialogue that couldn’t be more timely tonight we’ll be talking about inclusive approaches for tackling ovid 19 in informal settlements and it’s it’s one of these moments where we’re talking about problems that are not

Easily solved and well it’s very catchy to say that we’ll be able to switch on our economies and return to normal for some people the lights have been flickering for some time and as a network focusing on holistic urban resilience we’re often talking about systemic issues that require systemic

Solutions and tonight we’re going to hear from some practitioners on the front line who are with lessons from past crises responding with solution talk but they’re still working on it so so we’re so we also just want to remind everyone of the nature of this dialogue Frances to introduce our speakers for

This evening as a practitioner is dialogue we convene this space to have open learning conversations these conversations are not on the record and while they are open we ask that if any media are on the line or if anyone wishes to publish what they hear tonight

They reach out to us and we will get the confirmation from the speakers that that’s okay and just before I hand over the microphone the last thing I will say is that this is an issue many are working on and aligns very much with the word un-habitat and many of our partners

At gr CN are doing and we’re looking forward to hearing tonight from the speakers on the line but we’re also very much looking forward to continuing to part with the World Bank and with others to address this issue in subsequent sessions and work and with that Francis I will turn it

Over to you Thank You Lauren thank you very much my name is Francis gisquette so my role is to welcome you on behalf of the World Bank city resilience program and introduce today’s speaker we’ll have three speakers I’m actually delighted that Muhammad’s Anna just popped up we had issues with with the

Connection as you can imagine it’s not always easy to connect with some of the countries that are joining us Muhammad’s Anna is popularly known as the vagabond King is a community organizer and activist leader of the Nigerian slum and informal settlement federation and he’s also affiliated tweet spammed Wellings

International will then have Julian Baskin who works for cities Alliance is a tonne flight planner which focus on participative planning in slum of greening and affordable housing and finally we’ll have Farouk Brahimi who’s the executive director of people’s dialogue and human settlement in Ghana he’s also serves as a Deputy Chair of

Slum-dwellers international sport Mohammed will give us a first-hand account I believe is presentation by the way this presentation will be without slides we understand that we’re all very busy but I think we’ll have it more than some of us and so didn’t have a slide I believe this presentation will

Be quite sobering and provocative Julian will then give us a bit more of context on informal settlement drawing from lessons learned from the Ebola crisis and then finally Farooq will wrap up with a bit more of a message of hope talking about successes and opportunities from his work in the

Informal settlement in Accra we then open for Q&A and as Lauren said please ask your question in the question section of zoom not in the chat section and then we will group this question and then ask them to to our speakers Mohammed Julia and Farouk welcome and

Thank you for accepting to be with us today we we can imagine how busy you are and really grateful for you accepting to join us without further ado I’m gonna pass the screen to Mohammed who’s going to talk for about 10 minutes about his direct experience working in the slum

Mohammed welcome and the screen is yours yeah thank you for having me on this program I really appreciate it yeah my name is Cara Monica’s everybody had a number of the Nigerian slums like informal settlement Federation which is a grassroots movement of urban poor people live in his lungs for our dignity

And development right now I am here in Legos which is one of the most populated city in Nigeria would over 22 million people and almost to that of them live in slum areas and also survives on the informal economy which provides over 80% of the states internally generated

Resident and most of us live on what we end every day and with this lockdown things are not easy tension is too high out there there is every possibility of total breakdown of law and order as a result of the lockdown without providing any soft landing for the larger majority

Of people that live in the city as we speak tension is high the governor has called in the military the police to maintain security but it’s not enough it is not about drinking the soldiers or drinking police or anybody but it’s about providing as an alternative a soft

Landing for the people while they stay at home to stop the spread of this deadly virus there have to be some food they have to do some water and social distancing is not possible in this our slum communities here citizens are people living in a very small square

Meter of land 10 to 20 people living in a single house how do you special share distancing how do we try to certain distance in international communities so honestly within the national anthem our Federation we are seriously about well by the sheer nature of the disaster that

Is unfolding before us and it is a ticking time bomb unless something is done we have a serious problem now if you go to all the communities everywhere people have turned to beg us people are begging on the streets how do you stay at home with an empty stomach it’s not

Possible so if people are taking their chances to go out even a sticker out there commuters transport us all who used to be an informal which is an informal sector they also back home where they take every day so and really scared really scared scared not just for the virus the

Scared for the total breakdown of law and order in Lego set and in Nigeria by contrast I just I just can’t imagine what we are going to do right now I can’t imagine what we are going to nobody can imagine it people are suffering the government is

Not doing anything we have never said government is providing food so 200,000 people in a state of 22 million people and abba-abba-abba the truth out of that I in the informal sector they all need else that’s imagine we took eliminator out for people with disability but everybody’s are fighting it what is

Meant for people with disability they have forgotten the situation they are in the condition they are in they are thinking of themselves not-not-not vulnerable people this are the most vulnerable of the society these are the same people are normally give hand out to the same people but now they

Are fighting over the same handouts we are doing now this as a federation as an affiliate of SDI international doing our best creating awareness creating profess max sharing into the communities social food donation throne people that have it and sharing it around to the communities but it’s not enough it’s not enough even

Even come from our side it’s not you know government need to do know the government is not doing nothing all we hear is on the news and when they cannot I share what they give a person is not enough for him and his family too it is

Also just one nail just the one nail it’s not enough we are caught up in the tree karana virus and hunger if we stay home we die of hunger if we go outside we stand elixir straighten catching the coronavirus as trading it to our families and probably to our communities decide the situation

By extension serious tension here and it’s a ticking time bomb something needs to be done if nothing is done will defense would not a typical situation as serious and material crisis I don’t know I don’t know I don’t know what tomorrow drink I don’t know what Nestor not all

Think I don’t know what in this now we have a two weeks extension of the lockdown and God knows that doing is not going to be the last of this it is everywhere where they have most resistant to many disguises it has took them months and they’re

Still on it we don’t have any of those skills no other hospitals no other respiratory ventilators no no I did necessary medical that is medicine that it’s needed to treat people that I infected we don’t have any other Austrians we don’t have any functioning health centers in our community we don’t

Have there even before the coronavirus crisis came to be we don’t have hospital when people get sick we descend on caucus with disabled people selling medicine on the streets that is forced to extreme it beside what we used to cure ourselves o majestic and now this

And really scared so what is it your fault so us I don’t know I don’t know where we will be made this my mess week or minus two weeks I don’t know would be I don’t know and it is very important that something is done as a matter of urgency

So that we can all the alive when the storm is over thank you Mohammed thank you very much I think that your testimony is loud and clear I think everybody here is hearing it and hopefully some of us can can help we know pass on to Julian Mohammed

Please stay with us I’m sure there will be a lot of question and Mohammed I think the screen is yours Doreen I’m sorry Dorian yes well well after this a very very powerful statement about the reality on the ground it’s a very hard statement to follow

But I think the point is is that we are where we are and we need to respond in the immediate short-term well thank you very much for the opportunity to speak it’s a great privilege to speak to such a large audience about this absolutely urgent matter I just want to state

Upfront that I’m not a health practitioner in any way so I’m not going to question the advice of global health experts but what I am going to do is put forward some ideas as to what the immediate short-term actions might be the fact that most African urban residents cannot simply retreat and

Isolate two homes with running water sanitation and energy is a function of decades of myths of wit governance and global inequality but we are where we are and we must respond to the immediate short-term but when the dust settles we need to spur a real global movement in response

To make sure that next time there’s a crises African cities are in a better position to respond now on the screen in front of you and hope you can all see in my screen I have a picture of a marketplace and food and this picture really is about two things the first

Thing is when we talk about informality we’re talking both about where people live and where people work and perhaps the biggest part of the informal economy is about feeding people it’s where people buy their food and the question of food is the critical issue to be

Solved if any strategy is to work in much of the world we talked about the need for cash transfers but there already is an economic crisis and we’ll discuss that just now but what makes this unbearable is the doubt about how are you going to feed your family and

Everyone knows that ultimately social fabric breaks down when someone goes to the shop they can no longer buy a loaf of bread sorry spongy you so I’m just getting my okay oh there you go so yeah my and my slides weren’t changing so now they

Don’t so in front of you you have a picture of West Point in Monrovia Liberia it’s a settlement of some 80,000 people the only if you look at it from an aerial photograph you cannot see in the ground the open space that you see is a function of sea level rise

The width of the beach is also a function or see them arrives those shacks have been destroyed the pictures on the left are not about Monrovia but they’re about general issues within that settlement there is no running water there are knows there is no sanitation the community is hosts

Some of those vulnerable people and above all we mustn’t forget that people do not have energy they cannot store things in their homes they rely almost exclusively on charcoal and wood to cook they are not buying processed foods from the shops that are buying fruit that

Needs to be cooked and if you do not have a supply of energy into the settlements you are not able to prepare your daily meal now when we talk about informal I don’t know why we do talk about informal because it’s actually the majority of people who live in informal

Settlements in African cities more than 60% of African urban residents live in informal settlements for slums whilst over 60% of people find their work in the informal economy today if you’re looking for a job 93% of job seekers will find work in their formal economy whereas in many parts of Europe and in

The United States where we have their similar crisis they talk about a health crisis and an economic crisis so the health crisis is spurring an economic crisis here we really have an economic crisis on to which a health problem is being imposed so it’s a different way

Around but a very important point just to give you a sense of the magnitude of what we’re dealing with yeah I have a slide of an and Pula Mozambique is a city that grows at five point seven percent annum which means double it doubles in size every 12 years and what

The slide shows you is by far the majority of urban growth is informal by far and it just gives you a spatial representation of that so we are really not talking about a response to informal settlements we’re talking about a response to freaking cities it really has to be seen

In its broader context this slide really is a slide to say that it super imposes two sets of satellite imagery one taken in 2015 other one 2007 and what it shows is that African cities generally expand and sprawl in the first instance and then over time densify and what it

Really means is that in the process of sprawl people create fairly large pieces of land they leapfrog pieces of land that are too complex to gain possession of etc but what it means is that there is always land to be found if needed this idea that it is no land is a myth

Very seldom in any African city is the genuinely noid land normally it’s a question of how do you gain access to the land and there are a myriad reasons why that land cannot be used which forces people into the often when identifying into the worst possible land

And you would have noticed that the settlement in Monrovia is on a sandbank to give an example of that now in Liberia they’ve this is their second shot in a very short time dealing with a deadly virus and it’s important that we just outline some of the lessons from

Ebola and I think what Mohammed said is a fundamental lesson the police and the military was simply not going to make this work you can’t force people into into compliance if they feel hungry and if they really do not know how to comply so the first lesson that comes out of

The Ebola crisis is that Ebola started to be defeated when the communities took ownership when it’s shifted from the police and the military to the communities is when the Ebola crisis started to be defeated that’s a fundamental point to realize in whatever strategy is we unfold the second point

Is that the faith-based groups were vital in fighting misinformation during the Ebola epidemic we have to involve a broad constituency of people into this the third lesson was that in the midst of so much rumor and misinformation question-and-answer sessions with officials and experts worked well to address misinformation and assured

People were accurately informed people are willing to listen to people who are informed and we need to give them access to those people a next lesson is that upward communication about Ebola in other words knowledge from the ground was shared by community community activists and that information led to

Appropriate responses in terms of treating and the reduction of risk of transmission so there was a relationship between the community and the authorities and the information came from the ground and then finally quarantines work better when managed by communities and not externally through coercion it’s a fundamental lesson from

The Ebola crisis so with those lessons in mind I make the following suggestions as to what needs to be done and the very first thing that needs to be done in every single city in every country in Africa we need to establish dialogue structures we need to have immediate

Structures that link settlements to cities to national governments and in some places in Africa and I’m sure for Rickon talk about Ghana and examples in Liberia in fact and the examples in Uganda and other places every single informal settlement has a settlement forum those settlement forums are linked to municipal forums but these

Structures have to be joined up and coordinated certain settlements need to be talking to the authorities and the authorities need to be talking to the settlements and they need to know who they are talking to as far as possible residents must be included in developing covered 19 responses the second key

Thing is that people don’t have any electricity in the houses they are not watching television we need to get through key information by experts and by the people in charge and this needs to be done through radio and it needs to be done in a way that people can gain

Access to information and just in in in Liberia these Alliance at the moment is supporting a series of radio programs around covered 19 where the experts and government officials on on the radio who can then answer questions directly from the community so the second point is communication is key you have to have

Proper well resource communication strategy nationally and in every city the third point is is that within the communities you need to have people who are credible who can provide information on the ground and who are equipped with the equipment to do that and who have materials with key messages that they

Can circulate so the very first strategy that needs to be put in place is one about dialogue through communication and information the second strategy that we need to be put in place is that we need to mobilize communities and their capacities now I’m based in Brussels I’m talking to

You from my house in Brussels the only role that I have is to stay away and to lock myself inside but in this context is different we are going to need the mobilisation of communities to prepare for the covert 19 and we’re going to need a far more active engagement now

The one example I give is that in many slums in Africa there was more information in the slums about their own demographics and their own information then the other city and then the rest of the city has for example that West Point settlement are showed in the first slide

That is a detailed map of the settlement mapped out by the slum dwellers themselves the two photographs I have on the right that people might not know but a very famous sort of technology the social tenured domain model which is used all over the world to map cities

Was first pioneered and developed by slum dwellers in in Bali Uganda where they mapped out the slums and this and that technology is being used secondly the slide below in almost all this cities in many a wall in Sydney in many of the cities there are people who are

Trained in information in enumeration in mapping this is a fundamental resource the capacity built over many years must be mobilized to help monitor and get the information about the spread of the virus there are people out there who can provide the information so we can work

Out who where the hotspots are etc we have a resource when we can also talk about mobilizing the community to make masks mobilizing the community to make soap there are a whole range of things that can be done through the mobilisation of the communities now the third point is that the whole

Strategy the whole strategy of isolation and containment is to flatten the curve to protect the health system the idea is that you don’t want the health system to drown immediately and so what you do is you spread you lower the curve so that the health system is not overwhelmed 26%

Of informal settlements don’t even have a clinic there is not much of a public health system to overwhelm so the next strategy is we have to have a surge of investment in the public health system we need to be making sure that the machines are there the nurses are there

That people are there and we need to make sure that their land is available if necessary to build clinics to renovate clinics etc so in the next strategy is we have to really enhance access to health services now no matter which way you look at this

Some people are going to have to be rehoused and reallocated if you need to build a clinic in in a settlement and there’s no land communities are gonna have to negotiate what land is best placed and people need to be will need to be relocated we need to break the

Land to booth this is an emergency you find the land you lay out that land and you create the conditions for for a planned settlement of land and this is not rocket science whole towns have been established overnight by organized communities in land invasions this can

Be a real partnership if we need to create alternative spaces that are more spread out and invest in then this can be done very quickly all we need to do is make sure that the basic building materials are in place and this will enable the space needed for therefore

For the infant we’ll talk about that just now as well finally we need to scale up in as I said we need to scale up around the Public Health Service we need to scale up water and 10 sanitation services at huge scale we can do it both by linking to whatever

Water systems they are and if they are not water systems then we’re going to have to use other systems such as a Rhian tanker trucks that can fill up tanks in various parts of the city but you cannot have a strategy then that is centered on washing hands if you don’t

Have water and so so we need to scale up the watson activities on a multiple fold the idea that in Monrovia you have a settlement of 80,000 people with no running water simply has to be resolved tomorrow it can’t be that you know that well that there’s not enough water pressure in the

Pot blah blah blah we have to find a solution to that and just to say right now in the Cesar Lyons is rolling out quite a large water and sanitation program but clearly not enough in terms of the scale needed so resources are going to be needed to really mobilize

The scale of water and sanitation services so those are the five key activities just to sum up you know the first one is really to get the communication and dialogue happening the second one is to really mobilize and utilize the skills in the community the

Third one was to really scale up on it sorry system to make land available and then to scale up on the health systems so if we can get those five things done and if we can make land available and provide places for isolation and and 4d densification whatever we have a better

Chance of dealing with the carbon 19 situation thank you very much Thank You Julian now if you could remove your presentation without oral to say a few words and send her here on audio only but thank you so much and because of the participants here I would move

Straight to what we offer a slum delays International and the Ghana chapter in this whole fight against who beat 19 such this contest in an unusual manner the piece I want us to reflect on is that we already have a lot of diseases and challenges that confront humanity

And when you listened to Julian there is nothing new for the slum dweller we have always wet in conditions that are life and health threatenin I think which is new this time our copied 19 is that it affects both the rich and the fall it affects both Islam do Allah

And the Northland beulah it affects the politician and a non-politician the move Assad and the gluon of are all affected and I think that is why we want to place couldn’t commit 19 in that contest to say that you would realize that cholera and I mean cholera has been killing people for the

Last 15-20 years and in a crowd in 2014-2015 the color this was about 240 within six to seven months today about nineteen is trimming up to eight lives a Saturday and we have I’ll tell about season and something cases now what’s the point when I try to see all I’m

Saying is that for those of us who work within this piece will feel strongly that most of the solutions that we talking about are solutions that are well known when it comes to overall hiding protection my passion is that why do we think that this time it’s going to

Work because it’s about hiding and working using safe sanitation eating well taking a rest avoiding stress all these protocols that we are hearing there is nothing new and they have never worked with in slums and informal settlements so we are wondering how can we provide solutions that would respond Clark

Aquila needs so the gunner Federation of the urban poor with the heat of commit nineteen in code Fatima with about hundred twenty population highly highly highly high densities deficits mood deficits in sanitation facilities and the hotels of a college we initiated the Federation’s own social support system

To take care of a few families with the support of some funding from Asia and from Ghana now work for us was that we worked in partnership with the city authorities and we created a setting advantageous position by using the existing data that we have been building

In the last fifteen or three years in terms of data the process has been that you need a certain level of data to be able to target and intervene and so some details is in forever zio fries and we are offering our hands that look we need to start for a position of

Evidence and knowledge and so data becomes very critical in this struggle the second thing that work for us was the issues of mapping and then the structures that existed in community there were structures already so able to come with the community coordinating committees the community volunteers the community reporting center and then we

Were able to interface with the governments and ports one of the challenges that came up for me is the first time I had to face this reality of a bid 90 reported case of two persons last week in Accra who had contracted kebede 19 and they were living and moved

Freely in old Fatima Accra now what is the challenge first which is an impossible to talk of in the slums so the in the other protocols that we’ve been given our saved by the WTO and the national governments do not work in our slum so had these keys in hand with my

Community leaders there are two people word covered 19 and how are we going to respond this is where the issue of preparing committees to respond a managed community after all we are the first responded responders and we are the closest to the problem and so one of

The key points we’ll bid was that how are we going to assist in contact tracing because the national efforts the city of Falls could not trace these persons in the slum community so we were we’ve been doing a lot of contact tracing in support of the national

Effort thank God we were able to identify this person to break the chain of transmission so making a point of collaboration there’s a need for an interface at the community level that really makes meaning to the national and city at fault rant we identified them a second issue was we needed to

Quarantine them this lady lived it would three or four others in the same room she had to share her toilet with thousand other people she had to share her bath house with thousand other members in the community and she had to eat among thousand other people what did

We do as a federation the gun of additional impor sought for additional support from standards international and Oxfam Ghana which have been very useful to us they provided the needed tools to respond I think what is lacking current is that there’s a whole lot of agency

And fear and panic but we are not giving communities that capacity and the tools and the resources to respond and so when we got this supports will responded how did we respond we provided the platform for targeting people people living with disabilities we were talking about people living with mental conditions and

Pre-existing health as food yes we are talking about it we identify them and in the last one week we have prevailed over a thousand breakfast to these people in the community these are kinds of interventions that it is very difficult to expect the city or the states to do

Directly one other lesson that we learned was that issues of equity need and participation the national effort has providing from Cushing and relief has been going on in this country in the food they are providing some water they are providing free electricity over a period of the law down

By the Sun and that poverty reduction strategies are being presented the place if this provide put the way we provide who are going to scramble a limited food and they are going pass on disease so we have to pull to god Organa or city authorities to use the Alton community struck

For deafness and the fear Julien making guttural is a real challenge in the slums SGI has just responded with the KIC team we are killing about 5,400 use in 20 seasons to identify fit news for the weekend our communities the accurate and right information to manage and deal

What we need in communities the big metallization I saw that just last week now how are we dealing with pigma in the Federation contest we are endured because these people live with us in the community beginning to say look think of it and we don’t want to

Sell you we don’t want you to bother us we don’t want you to us did we respond we to find out the possible to scale up water sanitation food in this had the basic thing currently the fighting occur is not so much of covet 19 but it’s also

Of hunger so there are two tiers to face in Islam is the hunger fight and second is the covet 19 fight together with what happened yesterday no Fatima was a fire outbreak last week over town some people A shelter there was a me Erica unfortunately we’re using your audio with a shelter condition Yes if you can wrap up so we can move to the QA saying that there should be a committee response and management of common item going forward the structures exists the networks are their cities are they we need to put more structures to deliver through these networks to we are

Saying that the deficits in infrastructure is purely the result of what we have to be so we need to scale up resources and support into the settlements and empower them to be able to respond and manage and support the national effort the community used would have to modify such that slum dwellers

And communities will be able to reach all communication issues ICT for development has become very critical for us uses how do you use ICT to reach out to people in their contactless environment as we find ourselves I think this lessons and the solution that have found

We feel strongly that have a partner in us and we are presenting ourselves as community and partners who can really really provide the kinds of micro interventions that are required in all our cities thank you so much for audience thank you so much we’re gonna quickly move to the

Questions and I’m gonna try to summarize a few of the questions that have come up into one so we heard very clearly from from Muhammad from Farooq about what is happening on the frontlines in their communities and from Julian about what’s happening in communities that he’s working with as well as some lessons

From Ebola critical is this tension between alleviating this short-term need for food immediately getting things to communities and getting communities protected from potential cases and mobilizing the community and creating the adequate infrastructure in particular water and sanitation of Health Services came through very clearly in the messaging we have a

Common set of questions and I’ll address these to each of the speakers because they had a bit of a nuance and the way the questions were phrased so Mohammed for you what participants would really like to know is of these solutions that you’re hearing which of them resonate

The most with how you would be able to mobilize in in your community around you in Lagos and and for you noted that this is not different right that the the challenges that are caused because of code of 19 are common so with the solutions that you offered how do you

Use them to accelerate and then build on these gains in cooperation between city civil society and the community and actually accelerate change and similarly to you Julian but the question was really around this is a very clear set solution set it’s also a commonly heard solution set so how do we use this

Moment to accelerate and then sustain moment to make a systemic change maybe if we can turn to you first Mohamed and I will ask each of you if you can keep the responses to about two minutes each I know these are complex questions but then that will allow us to have at least

One more yeah hello thank you for having me back yeah I really like the idea of helping to rehabilitate our health centers develop legit and there are no medical in our communities I really have to sit if I can get support to help us you know that this our Hospital and if

We didn’t the necessary equipment that we might need them in the next few days and weeks to come to Korea – not know we’re kinda different from anywhere else we are getting to repeat and we never started yet but how we respond now will determine the impacts of the infection as we get

Good and put distribution in our communities not just one time distribution for their continuous distribution as long as the situation goes and I think if these three areas will be immediately addressed and the security issue that we are about to go into will be taken care of immediately

And we will be left to deal with how to present our communities from the infection ordinary virus okay thank you from from our experience in the last three weeks one of the key points is that we need to Churches and you see once you have the company structures in place you are able to lead them into the house goods is about data data data remind the system data that exists in all of these networks committed to ensure equity and need-based delivery of services in some deliveries and we need

To assist in the collaboration between communities seats and national government efforts we understand the stick alone cannot do this movement and again we also say that we will have to increase our resources into these communities to respond to thank you yeah the point made by the point made by

Fur rook that this is nothing new is absolutely correct the only thing that’s different I would propose is that both national government city governments and even the international development partners have never taken the importance of cities in the national economy that seriously in many parts of Africa more

Houses and markets are destroyed than built as people refuse to recognize the rights of the urban poor in the city and hang on to a model that somehow the world-class city can only be achieved by hiding the urban poor so this is the moment to say the city is the inclusive

City and we need to make sure that people can survive and thrive in the city and government now needs to start putting the resources in the immediate short-term now obviously we up against time there is a media problem at hand you know you can’t wash your hands and

Data you have to have water you’re going to wash your hands you can’t you can’t maintain sanitation and hygiene if you don’t have the basic facilities you can’t you can’t quarantine people you don’t have quarantine centers you can’t we have a short-term imperative to get things which means we have to do things

Differently we have to start saying if there are national emergencies then we use those national emergency laws to get things on the ground so we don’t get caught up in the endless red tape that precludes anyone doing anything any formal settlements of course they say well if you invested in formal

Settlement then you realizing illegal you know like seventy percent of the of Africa’s population in a city population illegal in those terms so my point my call for action is really to say that we have to in the short term really mobilize a partnership between communities cities and national

Government to get services into the informal settlements and in the longer run we got to make sure that if this happens again we better prepared Thank You Julian I think we have time for one more set of questions I’d like to shift from the big picture what you were just

Talking about to much more immediate needs and lot of people are asking questions about how do you actually practice social distancing in informal settlement how do you how do you work in community work with local authorities to ensure that they they don’t they don’t communicate the disease to each other

Faster and and and I think an additional question is how can you maintain community forum community engagement alongside social distancing so Muhammad Farook any any witness account any good ideas that you’ve witnessed or you have applied in your work directly in the slum and Julian you you may have seen

Also unheard of interesting approaches and it’s easy for us we all online we all have an iPhone but imagine that that doesn’t work any form of settlement so what are the other options that that you have observed and that you would recommend to people working in informal settlement thank you very much

Maybe you first time on it and then Peru kind in German again okay speak on based on my experience working in informal communities for many years we work directly with people in the grassroots and if anybody wants to have and support the people in the grassroot into the best to work with our

Organization and organization like ours that is actively engaged in the grassroot because the way organization like III honest world on sometimes give the assistant only to the states and once the money is within this in the hand of the state as the evidence right now with some of the material that they are

Sharing they share to their political cronies in the community and their political cronies share those food and material to their political caucus members cutting away Alijah population that are not but so if you really impressed by eating our stones and many other salons around the world you need

To work with actual community organizers working within the grassroot to actually reach to the people that really really need this assistance I think that is my own suggestion on that thank you thank you mama done on social distancing when you work in the slum do you maintain distance that you try what

Experience do you have in helping communities maintain a certain distance between individuals or is it totally impossible it is totally is impossible considering the huge amount of people that Royce after you and everybody want to get a share Rhonda relief material nobody is sufficient we have got in the gym

Controlling the crowd and actually given the relief material so outside the incident of we being attacked by thoughts and Katerine away some of the relief material we such as moving far away and then calling the committee leaders within that community and accusing the indicia of the real indicator for their own community and

Analyzing their to go in shape but maintaining such our discussants it is only in the first place where we went that we were able to understand where we final I would in a big pack would get so we were able to allow people to sit down and maintain distance among themselves

While we go around I share their material to them but after that the rest of the communities we went it is simply impossible to maintain social distancing and then at the same time provide relief material to the people it’s not possible Juliana before for your extremely compelling presentations tonight it’s

It’s my unfortunate duty to start to bring this to a close because we’re at time but I wanted to to make a few notes on on this presentation this was by far by far the most popular speaker series we have ever convened we had to shut the registration 12 hours before it had

Because we had over a thousand people already registered for for this topic so this is a testament to how important this is and how important all of the messages you’ve all shared with us and it’s also to say that this is a conversation that is not finished it’s a

Conversation that needs to continue and there have been a number of comments expressed in the chats about that and about wanting this to continue and so we hear that and we will certainly convene additional sessions about this topic and we really welcome your continued participation there were also about 40 /

Questions in the chat and in the Q&A we will collect those questions and then we will work with our panelists and and with the experts on our teams to answer those and to make those questions and answers available to everyone who registered for this webinar so again

This is not the end of the conversation it’s a continuing conversation and I also do want to share that there were a number of expressions of support for the communities here in Nigeria also in Ghana over the chat some people who want to reach out and offer their support so

We will make sure to those participants to you Muhammad and Farooq as you continue this work every everyone here is a Coalition of the Willing this is a practitioner network and this is a supportive networks and we will continue to make those connections for you I do want to remind everyone

Also that this is a weekly series we will be back here online at the same time next week and we will be learning from Singapore we will have two speakers with us dr. Jeremy Lim who is a medical doctor and an adviser to the central liberal cities here and we’ll also have

Melissa cui who is the CEO of the National Volunteer Infantry Center and she is responsible for connecting between civil society groups business and government so we’ll be having that conversation this week I hope that many of us will many of you will join us again and I just really again wanted to

Express a sincere thanks to our presenters and in particular for making the time while you are at the same time helping your communities and fundraisers

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