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Participatory Rooftop Farming
in Informal Settlements
Saber Osman, GIZ PDP
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Overview
1. PDP’s Participatory Approach
in Informal Settlements
Upgrading in the Greater
Cairo Region
2. Climate Change Impacts,
Adaptation and Resilience in
Informal Settlements
3. Rooftop Farming Pilot Project
in Ezbet El-Nasr
4. Outlook
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1. PDP’s Participatory Approach in Informal Settlements
Upgrading in the Greater Cairo Region
• More than 60% of the population of the
Greater Cairo Region live in informal
areas; most of them come from rural
areas looking for job opportunities in the
city
• PDP works in 9 areas in the Greater
Cairo Region governorates (Cairo, Giza
and Qalyubia)
• Objective: improvement of the living
conditions of the poor urban population in
deprived informal areas through better
quality of services by both public
administration and civil society
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Principles…
1. Building trust
2. Interlinking institutions
3. Motivating residents to participate in the planning phases of any initiative.
4. Integration of residents to ensure ownership and sustainability
5. Achieving transparency and accountability;
… and Tools
1. Participatory Needs Assessment
2. GIS mapping
3. etc.
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1. PDP’s Participatory Approach in Informal Settlements
Upgrading in the Greater Cairo Region
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2. Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Resilience in
Informal Settlements
• Cairo is affected by direct impacts of climate change
• Heat waves (health conditions, food security, energy consumption,
tourism and infrastructure)
• Nile flow fluctuations (health conditions and food security)
• Sea Level Rise (migration; food security)
• Most vulnerable areas: Informal settlements due to their physical
conditions (exposure) + residents’ (un)preparedness (sensitivity)
• Most vulnerable groups: elder people, children, women, poor (weak
adaptive capacity), people working in open areas (informal areas)
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2. Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Resilience in
Informal Settlements
PDP’s conceptual approach in CCA
• Assessing the areas’ exposure and
residents’ vulnerabilities and adaptive
capacities
• Raising awareness
• Implementing adaptation measures
• Exchanging knowledge & experiences
with our partners (MoHUUD, EEAA,
UUUs, Megawra, Schaduf, etc.)
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3. Rooftop Farming Pilot Project in Ezbet El-Nasr
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Proposed Design Current Situation
Image & Edit © 2015 Abdallah Tawfic
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Project timeline and structure
1. Households selection
2. Training
3. Equipment Installation
4. Assistance & Monitoring
5. Evaluation Results
6. Continuation & Scaling Up
Structure of Ezbet El Nasr Rooftop Farming Project, 2015
Abdallah Tawfic (adjusted)
nat.
Authorities
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Household Selection
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3. Rooftop Farming Pilot Project in Ezbet El-Nasr
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Training
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Equipment installation
• 6 households
• Around 90m2 in total
• Gender balance, age
30-60
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Assistance & Monitoring
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Evaluation Results
• Farmers asserted that rooms below the rooftop were noticeably cooler
• Income generation is the main driver of motivation for residents but also
stopped a bit short of expectations
• Women were very engaged in the project
• To improve integration of marginalized groups such as women and youth,
participants should be included in the overall planning process
• A stronger involvement of public authorities to enhance capacity building
and promote the project seems promising
• Skill development needs time
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Continuation & Scaling Up
• All pilot farmers are continuing without
active GIZ support
• Neighbors of participants expressed
their wish to participate
• Scaling up to 100 rooftop farms in 3
informal areas
• Implement other urban agriculture
techniques such as green walls,
green side walks, etc.
Image & Edit © 2015 Abdallah Tawfic
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Lessons Learned
• Synergy between bottom up and top down approaches is highly
important in order to gain the trust of both community and authorities
• Compromise between scientific results, community needs and
authorities regulations is highly important
• Ownership: Households should cover part of the cost of any equipment
they receive in order to build up their ownership
• Scientific background shared with the community to get their trust
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Participatory Development Program in Urban Areas
(PDP)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Component “Climate Change Adaptation in Informal Urban Areas”
www.egypt-urban.de
www.urbanet.info
www.giz.de
Thank you for your attention.
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