1 Local Dissemination Workshop in each target region engages stakeholders in the specific local setting and keeps their engagement alive throughout the whole project duration and beyond.

Concise local challenges and problems are discussed and conflicting interests are brought to the scene, discussed, documented and – at best – resolved.

These workshops pave the way for stakeholder engagement initiated by the project to sustain beyond project duration.

This is also important to make sure that Partner Institutions’ future graduates trained in issues of informal settlements and poor urban communities will be employed by local authorities and real estate developers.

Documentation of all local workshops will clearly evidence regional differences in challenges and solutions as well as broad national similarities on which all partners can build. Participation of all Ethiopian Partners in all Local Workshops will ensure broad exchange of know how between the target regions and generalization of knowledge and lessons learnt.