In 2014, Isandla Institute was the Southern African partner in a global initiative of Habitat International Coalition, focused on how The Right to the City was understood, adopted and/or implemented in different countries across the globe. Isandla Institute wrote the South African country paper and coordinated the production of the Kenyan country paper. This follows earlier work in 2011, when Isandla Institute and the Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC, the South African partner of Slum Dwellers International) implemented a partnership project aimed at contextualising and concretising the notion of ‘the right to the city’ in the South African context. The project included the production of input papers and a series of iterative dialogues between the urban poor and within the urban NGO sector, culminating in a national policy dialogue.