Below appear articles that highlight some of the recent activities in each of Planact’s core programme areas.

Community Development and Empowerment

Quality Housing through Community Participation: People’s Housing Process in Vosloorus

Planact has been working with the community in the informal settlement of George Sgomora Extension 28 for the past three years. The community was initially developed as a ‘site and service scheme’ and had been looking for government assistance to upgrade their settlement for several years prior to Planact’s involvement. Read more...

Local Government Capacity-Building

Ward Committee Training in Bohlabela and Vhembe Builds Capacity of Local Trainers

From November-December 2003, Planact developed and delivered a ‘Training of Trainers’ programme for the district municipalities of Bohlabela and Vhembe (in Limpopo/Mpumalanga border area), as a capacity-building initiative to equip local trainers to conduct training of ward committees in their municipalities. Twenty-seven councillors and officials in Bohlabela attended the training, and 34 in Vhembe (with a total of 51 completing the course). Read more...

Research and Evaluation

Planact Documents its Community-based, HIV/AIDS Capacity-building Efforts

Since mid- 2002, Planact has embarked upon an effort to capacitate the community structures in which we work to understand and respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis. We recently evaluated these experiences, in the four informal settlements in which our intervention took place, to help our organization and others learn from these fledgling efforts to empower communities in the face of a devastating disease with major implications for the social and economic fabric of the community. Read more...

Policy Research on Access to Housing and Socio-economic Rights Presented at Department of Housing Seminar

In March, 2004, the national Department of Housing sponsored a seminar to present the results of commissioned research on five discrete topics, each focusing on possible responses to the various challenges facing the housing sector. Together, these focus areas comprise a policy and research agenda as a statement of strategic policy direction for the Department of Housing, and are intended to provide the basis for dialogue amongst key public, private, and community-based stakeholders in the South African housing sector.
Read more...

top