Programmes Sustainable Settlements

The purpose of the Sustainable Settlements Programme is to promote a sustainable and integrated approach to settlement development by giving technical support so that:

• Communities have access to land and basic services.
• Integrated housing development models are tested in various contexts.
• Development practitioners have a better understanding of how integrated development can be applied.
• Government and other role-players support integrated development.
• Communities use co-operative housing as one of the approaches to address their habitable livelihood needs.
• Co-operative institutions manage development and maintenance of their settlements effectively.

The Sustainable Settlements Programme has acquired expertise in developing approaches that deal with building sustainable community settlements and institutions that augment local economic initiatives. One of the main aims of the programme is to promote innovative housing approaches using lessons learnt from pilot projects.

The Sustainable Settlement Programme evolved from the Housing Programme which started in 1992 and has undertaken contracted partnerships with the Swedish Co-operative Centre, United States International Development Agency, International Institute of Energy Conservation, Provincial Department of Housing amongst others to do the following:

Housing Activities
Since 1995 Afesis-corplan has developed and managed more than twelve housing projects ranging in size from 75 to 620 housing units each.  All of these projects have used the South African Government's housing subsidy grant made available for low-income households.

• Housing Development
• Land Access