Slum Dwellers International 2025-27

The Slum Dwellers International (SDI) project ‘Accelerating locally-led responses to climate change in informal settlements and slums’ aims to support SDI's objective of transforming slums into resilient and inclusive neighbourhoods, through locally-led climate change adaptation initiatives. The project supports both the SDI Secretariat and its local affiliates, with a focus on strengthening the resilience of slums to climate change and has the following main objectives: 1) Strengthening the climate resilience of slums through community-led climate action at community, city and national level. 2) Bringing slum dwellers' data, solutions, voices and priorities to global policy forums that shape international climate and development policy. The project's objectives are clearly linked to SDI's Strategic Plan for 2023-2027, which is based on the belief that systemic change is necessary and that decision-making processes need to be redesigned to promote equity and resilience for slum dwellers. SDI seeks to achieve this through community-led climate adaptation projects, which will support upgrades to water, energy, sanitation, drainage and waste management infrastructure in slums. SDI affiliates in up to ten countries will implement these projects. SDI has proposed that the following countries be given the opportunity to submit project proposals: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Brazil, India and the Philippines. SDI will also actively work to ensure that its members' interests are represented and taken into account in policy decisions and processes that affect climate change and sustainable urban development at city, national and global level. Since 2009, Sida has provided programme and core support to SDI, disbursing a total of approximately SEK 167 million through four agreements. The third agreement, which ran from 2018/19 to 2022/23, originally provided core support but was changed to project support for SDI's reorganisation process 2020-2022. SDI now has a new organisational structure, with a new management, governance structure, policies, procedures and internal control systems. The previous agreement for the period 2022-24 was a continuation of support to SDI's reorganisation. SDI's activities clearly aim to promote an improved environment and gender equality, which justifies setting these policy markers as the main objective (2). Sida assesses that the Rio marker climate adaptation is classified as a main objective (2). The main objective of the project is to build resilience to climate risks and promote locally led climate adaptation of infrastructure. Disaster risk reduction is a sub-objective and the markers is set to 1. SDI contributes to democracy development through its work on participatory and inclusive planning and implementation with slum dwellers and organisations representing the urban poor. The policy marker is set to 1. All other markers are set as not focused on the area (0).