Incremental Settlement

Updates
For a chronological list of updated reports and activities that are in some way related to incremental settlement visit the updates page.

Introduction to wiki pages
Welcome to the incremental settlement wiki.

This incremental settlement wiki is an initiative of and is maintained by Afesis-corplan. See this short animation video on Afesis-corplan. If you have any information you would like to add to this wiki site contact [mailto:info@afesis.org.za info@afesis.org.za] or make use of our Comments page. An incremental settlement process can be broken into five phases. Each of these phases is broken into a number of activities. Click on the links below to take you to a list of the activities per phase. The contents block to the right also has links to the same phases of the incremental settlement process.

You can also use the story links in the contents block to the right to follow the fictional story of Pamela and her family as they follow this incremental settlement process. For an overview of the story click here. Click here to see a comic strip of the story, and here for a longer detailed description of the story. To watch an animated film on Pam's Managed Land Settlement story click here.

Three other useful websites where you can find relevant information relating to land access and incremental settlement are:
 * The National Upgrading Support Programme - NUSP
 * The Housing Development Agency - HDA
 * LANDfirst, a discontinued campaign that helped inform the Managed Land Settlement concept.

Also have a look at Thandi's IDP story found here, where you can see an animation DVD that shows how Thandi used the Municipal Integrated Development Planning (IDP)process to arrange for her informal settlement to be upgraded in a an incremental manner.

Phase 1: Bulk Preparation


Where government and communities identify, obtain and get land ready on which incremental settlement can occur.

Output

Developers have approval to undertake an incremental settlement project on an agreed piece of land.



Phase 2: Basic Product


Where government, and/ or communities provide a basic level of service and tenure security so households can start to build houses for themselves.

Output

Households have moved onto an agreed plot within the broader piece of land and have access to basic services and basic tenure.



Phase 3: Aided Self Development


Where households start to build their own houses using their own resources

Output

Households are living in houses they are continually improving using their own resources and, where possible, are using their land for other economic activities (e.g. gardening and small business.



Phase 4: Upgrading


Where government and others help households to upgrade their tenure security, level of services and house.

Output

Households have individual title (or tenure of their choice) and are living in houses and an environment that has been upgraded to a higher level of service and quality using government subsidies.



Phase 5: Maintenance and Improvement


Where households, communities and government continues to maintain and improve their houses and neighbourhoods.

Output

Households and government are continually improving the public and private spaces within the neighbourhood.



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