Learning from experience: the transformation of participatory urban development through community to community exchange

A detailed plan to articulate and disseminate experiences in community exchange programmes between low-income urban communities in Asia and Africa. The report highlights the value of community participation and community exchanges in the light of growing urbanization and decentralization of services. The objective of these exchange programmes has been to transform a process of urban development by enabling the poor themselves to be directly involved in planning and negotiating local development strategies that make sense to them and which fit within their existing livelihood struggles. The organisations involved are: Pilotlight in UK, Asian Coalition for Housing Rights based in Thailand, IIED in UK, Society for the Protection of Area Resource Centres in India and People's Dialogue on Land and Shelter in South Africa.