Supporting Just Response and Recovery to COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements
Perspectives from Youth Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Key contacts: Keith Hyams
Funding: AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund
Partners: Slum Dwellers International (Cape Town) and Youth Federations in Johannesburg (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), Kampala (Uganda), Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), and Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Start date: 2020
End date: 2021
Project website: https://www.ethicsindevelopment.org/
Project overview
The project works with the organisation Slum Dwellers International and its Youth Federation members in six Sub-Saharan African cities to understand inequalities and injustices associated with COVID-19 impacts and policy responses in informal urban settlements. The project will facilitate the creation of a series of video-diaries informed by ethical analysis, co-designed and produced with youth groups in the cities, which will provide the foundation for research articles and policy briefs to be shared with local authorities.