Ndifuna Ukwazi

Buitengracht Centre; 125 Buitengracht Street, Office 703
Cape Town 8000
Sudáfrica

Persona de contacto: Mr. Sichale Silungwe

+27 (0)21 012 5094
contact@nu.org.za
sichale@nu.org.za
https://nu.org.za/
https://www.facebook.com/NdifunaUkwazi

Áreas temáticas

• Organización de apoyo
• Derechos humanos
• Política / Proyecto de educación

Sobre nosotros

Founded in 2011, Ndifuna Ukwazi is an activist organisation and law centre that advocates for access to well-located land and affordable housing for poor and working class families, communities and social movements. In our campaigns, we use a combination of community organising, research, advocacy and litigation to advance urban land justice and fuel systemic change. Our theory of change holds that leverage for social change is created by bringing together the use of the law, evidence-based research, media advocacy and, importantly, a movement of people. We believe that this convergence creates the right atmosphere for social change.


What we do:
• Ndifuna Ukwazi Law Centre: We engage in strategic litigation in support of the programmatic work we do in advancing people’s constitutional rights to equitable access to land and adequate housing and we provide legal assistance to qualifying individuals/households and communities who are facing evictions and landlord and tenant disputes through our Housing Clinic.
• Equitable Access to Land and Housing: We work to shift attitudes, discourse and the public imagination around the use of public land, and the need to regulate the private housing market in Cape Town. We support the need for broadened access to land through public campaigns and strategic litigation aimed at compelling the state to meet its obligations to make land available on an equitable basis, and advance spatial justice through the use of well-located land for the development of affordable housing. We simultaneously advocate for truly affordable inclusionary housing in private developments.
• Security of Tenure: The objective of this programme is to ultimately secure long term tenure rights for the landless and homeless. Securing tenure is also in response to millions of households that reside in precarious conditions such as informal settlements, overcrowded buildings, backyard structures and occupied buildings.
• Community organising & movement support: We offer support to the families, communities and movements fighting for access to land and housing by providing rights-based popular education, strengthening local leadership structures and leadership capacity, building solidarity among communities and social movements facing similar challenges, and encouraging greater community participation to address their collective struggles.

Sichale Silungwe is the Acting Executive Director and Finance & Compliance Manager of Ndifuna Ukwazi.

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