Current estimates from international organizations indicate that 3.4 billion people still live in rural areas with underserved and dilapidated rural housing infrastructure for the inhabitants living in extreme poverty and unsanitary conditions, particularly in Africa and Asia. Evidence indicates that rural poverty is more widespread and more extreme in Sub-Sahara Africa with most households and families unable to provide basic shelter for their families.
The Sustainable Development Goal 2030 Agenda for eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for global sustainable development, especially for rural poverty eradication. Poverty cannot “end in all its forms everywhere’’ if rural housing for the poor and vulnerable population (women, children, disabled, and aged) living in Asia and Africa for instance is neglected.
This is the unique flagship program of SIPAD International to support sustainable rural housing rehabilitation and renovation to improve the living conditions of the poor and vulnerable people in rural deprived communities in Africa.
Many governments in Africa, in collaboration with international financial institutions such as the World Bank, have made strides toward implementing programs and projects to address urban infrastructure. National and International development initiatives have been Urban-rural-driven models. However, SIPAD International’s aspiration and belief for poverty eradication is a shift to a rural-urban integrated development model. Living in dilapidated rural houses has contributed to many sicknesses and rural deaths among women and children and overall poor living conditions.
Our rural housing interventions support:
- Rural housing rehabilitation and renovation to improve the living standard of the poor deprived rural communities through engagements with local authorities in the need assessments and identification of dilapidated structures.
- Provide rural communities with basic hygiene facilities to minimize or eradicate diseases from poor sanitary conditions.
- Addressing the disproportionate impact of extreme poverty on women, children, and vulnerable groups in rural communities through the provision of needed facilities in the rural communities.
Rural housing interventions are physical results, sustainable impact, and tailored-made community-driven interventions that would even slow the rural-urban migration in low-income developing countries.
SIPAD International Rural Housing Rehabilitation and Renovation Vision 2050 is to cater to and improve each low-income country with a minimum of 10,000 dilapidated rural homes and sanitary conditions across Africa.
Browse through our selection of photos to get a glimpse of the rural housing initiatives.
