This activity developed extensive descriptions of courses

Courses related to informal settlements and poor urban communities have to build on up-to-date and locally relevant knowledge. Indigenous case studies establishing such knowledge are broadly missing for the Ethiopian context and were therefore developed in the SES project. 

Consequently, syllabi of courses related to informal settlements and poor urban communities which contain up to date and locally relevant knowledge were developed within the framework of the SES project, based on these context-specific case studies. However, their detailed descriptions can serve as a basis for course development for further higher education institutions interested to tackle the highly relevant societal issue of informal settlements.   

As an example of how SES helped to develop courses, you can watch a presentation by Tadesse Negash Reta on Including Informal Urban Settlement to the Course on Urban Development.

The following course descriptions were developed: 

Covid 19 and its impacts on informal settlements

Informal Housing in the Context of Global Urbanisation 

Informality in urban Ethiopia: Quality of life

Social Policy Analysis in the context of informal housing

Seminar on urban and regional issues in Ethiopia 

Informal Settlement as Social Policy Issue

Seminar on contemporary Population Issues

Regional Planning and Metropolitan Growth Management

Sustainable Design

Urban Housing

Integrated design Studio III- Architecture/ Urban Design / Urban Planning/ Socio-Economic studies

Conservation of Energy- Household Energy management

Urban Upgrading in Peri-urban Informal Settlements