This practice brief provides an overview of upgrading as an approach to development. This serves not only to highlight the merits of upgrading, as well as key principles such as participation and incrementalism, but also to draw out some of the potential limitations to the successful large-scale implementation of upgrading interventions in South Africa.

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  • Year 2014
  • Themes Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading
  • Type Practice Brief
  • Practice Area Urban Land
  • Project Building communities of practice to advance participatory approaches to informal settlement upgrading

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