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Spaces for Change and Community Alliance against Displacement

During the project will be constituting a Steering Committee, and that Steering Committee would include eight members from the communities spread across Lagos, Nigeria. And so what members would do is to create the research questions, suggest research methodologies and these are things that they have done in the past. And I think it’s going to be easy for them

One of the major things we want to do in this project is to understand the role of government and non-governmental institutions on how women lack access to land and how forced evictions affect women and minorities in communities in Lagos. We are also trying to deconstruct the notion that slum dwellers are criminals and hoodlums and prostitutes. And this is a a continued, sustained and concerted campaign that we have been doing for a long time.

We’ll also be increasing the capacity of local women from little urban policies and designing policies and designing activities that work for them, designing change that work for them, for themselves and by themselves. So we’ll be doing all this through focus group discussions, on site legal clinics, media outreaches, disseminating information, a lot of radio, a lot of advocacy, using the media, using graphic design and other social media content.

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Community Alliance Against Displacement is a coalition of communities in Lagos who are working towards disputing the fact that slum dwellers deserve their rights. Slum dwellers need to be in spaces that they call home, without being evicted, without being subjugated, without being oppressed, and their human rights respected. And these are quite a collection of communities, most of them who have suffered intense and serious forced evictions since 2015. And obviously, our organization Spaces for Change has been working with these communities since 2015.

“One of the major things we want to do in this project is to understand the role of government and non-governmental institutions on how women lack access to land and how forced evictions affect women and minorities in communities in Lagos. We are also trying to deconstruct the notion that slum dwellers are criminals and hoodlums and prostitutes. “

– Chimee Adioha, Spaces for Change, Nigeria

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Spaces for Change is a human rights organization based in Lagos, Nigeria, working to increase the participation of women, youth and communities in the development of social and economic policies and also working with public authorities and corporate entities to put a human rights approach at the heart of their decision making. Spaces for change employs a variety of strategies such as research, policy analysis, digital crowd sourcing, youth engagement, advocacy, public interest litigation and community action to infuse human rights into social and economic governance processes in Nigeria.

For this project S4C is partnering the Communities Alliance Against Displacement (CAD), a grass-root movement of 22 urban slums in Lagos that have either been displaced or targeted with demolitions are joining forces to unleash the power of solidarity and collective action. United by the sheer determination to keep their homes, these communities are working with a common vision to tackle forced displacement by engaging various institutions of the government on critical policy issues and urban challenges confronting their communities.

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