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SHERPA

for sustainable housing design in the Global South

Contact: info@sherpa4housing.org

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Context of New Urban Agenda

2. By 2050 the world urban population is expected to nearly double, […] this poses massive sustainability challenges in terms of housing, infrastructure, basic services, food security, health, education, decent jobs, safety, and natural resources, among others. 9. This New Urban Agenda reaffirms our global commitment to sustainable urban development […]

Source: New Urban Agenda (Quito, 2016)

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Need for New Guideline Tool

“Africa will have the largest growth of population in cities the coming decades and they are asking openly not being imposed external rating tools as guidelines for their development.” “They have a need of reinforcing their own models focusing on culture as a design value and community management as the fundamental base for sustainable development.”

Source: World Sustainable Building Conference, Barcelona, 2014

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Vision behind SHERPA

Maximise sustainability through:

• holistic view on housing impact
• local capacity building
• process-driven focus
• ability to self-evaluate
• free and open-source development

“Housing as a lever for sustainable development”

• Philippe Garnier, CRAterre

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Sustainability Criteria

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Four Housing Project Scales

Project processes

• 1. Context analysis
• 2. Project governance and

management

• 3. Participation and capacity

building

Neighbourhood

• 1. Planning and cultural suitability
• 2. Urban design for cultural identity and

social cohesion

• 3. Urban rural interface
• 4. Land tenure

Territory

• 1. Water and sanitation
• 2. Solid waste
• 3. Mobility and networks
• 4. Energy
• 5. Food security and livelihoods
• 6. Social and community cohesion

Household

• 1. Building design
• 2. Architectural and building techniques
• 3. Building elements
• 4. Appliance and equipment

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Self-Evaluation Questionnaire

PROCESSES Section 3) PARTICIPATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING 3.1 To what degree were stakeholders involved in the architectural design process?

Not at all

Stakeholders were not informed during the architectural design process.

Informed

Stakeholders were informed during the architectural design process.

Consulted

Stakeholders were consulted during the architectural design process.

Active

Stakeholders had an active role in the architectural design process. There are several levels of participation ranging from 'no participation' to 'decision'. Are the existing techniques of participative design applied? Are different options proposed and understood by all the participants?

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Access to SHERPA as Mobile App

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Egypt Nicaragua Burkina Faso Kenya Nepal India DRC Benin Venezuela Colombia Haiti Guinea Mali Senegal Algeria

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Pilot Projects in Global South

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Application for SHERPA

Programme-level:

• Monitoring and implementation tool

for New Urban Agenda

• Guide priorities and assessment criteria

for new programmes Project-level:

• Guide brief, scope, and targets
• Methodology for capacity building
• Monitor performance of ready funded

projects

• Post-evaluation to feed into future projects

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