WP 2: Resilient upgrading (TUDO, partner SURP)

WP 2 emphasizes on-site upgrading as a process of enhancing ISFs’ livelihoods, community coping capacity to withstand natural calamities and shocks; and building up risk governance among multi-tier stakeholders. Objectives accentuate a community-based approach counterbalanced with planning interventions. Given current on-site upgrading’s low priority as a planning intervention, WP 2 strives for a resilience responsive plan with structural, cohesive and actionable upgrading activities.

This plan wants to make safety requirements and livelihood improvement compatible. It particularly addresses issues of reducing overlapping vulnerability of ISFs in high-risk areas; securing ISFs’ asset ownership and household livelihood opportunities; optimizing settlement space for adaptive resilient (re)uses and supporting proximity concept for ISFs to access resources and employment with improved mobility. Importantly, increasing ISFs’ resilience to natural disasters shall not be compromised by upgrading measures.

Results of WP 2 provide for WP 5 up-to-date training contents and topics for the PhD programme. The development of an upgrading design in a pilot study and upgrading guidelines that draws on the intensive fieldwork will be the output.