Our programme frame is defined by five programmatic pillars:
Urban/Public Health
Urban poor communities are confronted with recurrent challenges that undermine their livelihoods and socio-economic survival. This reality necessitates the need and desire for FEDURP to galvanise itself to maximise potential and opportunities to optimize livelihoods of its members and settlements. This is underpinned by the federation’s dream of progressive change readmore…
Environmental Protection & Climate Change
Settlements are poorly or informally planned that have emerged into sprawls that are characterized by overcrowding, insecure and unsafe shelters, limited or lack of spaces for recreation or accessible passages or provision of social services. These challenges are further compounded by human-induced disaster occurrences and climate-change factors. readmore…
Livelihood
The challenging circumstances of slums and informal settlements have direct relationship to the health conditions of poor urban and rural populations. The poverty conditions of the population, underpinned by traditional stereotyping are in many ways contributing to the appalling health situation of the residents, especially for women, youth, children and people with disabilities. readmore…
Partnership building/networking
In this age of ours, there is the situation of highly competitive effort to access donor funding, and especially in our local context, the lack of or limited access to government funding. The most effective way to overcome this challenge is to build extensive and stronger partnerships and networks to enhance access to funding and technical opportunities. readmore…
Advocacy
Our target reach is overwhelmed by multifarious challenges and problems. On many fronts, real time transformative change is only possible with government intervention which has within its reach, the capacity to mobilise adequate financial, technical and socio-political regimes that are crucial to this process. readmore…