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. In the face of this severity, FEDURP intends to progressively actualize its dream of moving communities “from severity to security”; and this will be pursued through the following strategies:
- Priority 1: Community initiatives/projects – We will trigger community actions through ‘challenge competitions’ to encourage communities to initiate innovative solutions to address community problems and challenges. These can serve as precedentsetting and demonstration projects to leverage external resources. Through these demonstration projects, we can facilitate community engagement with relevant MDAs so as to ensure prioritization of pro-poor interventions in government’s (state and local) development priorities and to scale-up or replicate those precedent-setting initiatives.
- Priority 2: Community area planning/re-blocking – We will regularly update our profiling, enumeration and mapping data which are used to stimulate community engagements that would inform community re-planning and re-blocking actions. This is to address the challenges of overcrowding and lack of spaces which mitigate against access and movement of people, goods and services in the settlements. More often than not, when there are incidences of fire outbreaks, flooding, etc., fire force or rescue teams, are unable to access settlements to combat the situation or rescue vulnerable populations. This has often led to serious devastating consequences that further impoverish and exacerbate the vulnerability of residents especially, women, children and people with disabilities.