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Informal
settlement in Bogotá, Colombia
Children
in an informal settlement in Cairo, Egypt
Squatter in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
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SUM (Settlements and Urban Management) Consult
GmbH is a consulting company established in 1988 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
It is managed by two
partners: Roland Ziss (urban economist) and Joanna Kotowski (urban and social sector specialist).
Its work is targeted
towards poverty alleviation and social development, focusing on the fields of
human settlements and housing finance, social infrastructure and community
development, violence prevention and youth-oriented social integration. SUM
Consult provides expertise in the areas of:
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Design
and implementation of socially and gender oriented development policies
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Youth promotion and violence prevention
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Municipal
finance and management methods
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Organisational
development of municipalities, housing and finance institutions,
including human resources development and capacity building of local
personnel
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Self-help
support, community participation and development of appropriate forms of
community organisation, including conflict prevention and mitigation
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Development
of policies and programmes to increase the participation and social
integration of poor target groups, especially young people (including
instruments for prevention of drug abuse and violence)
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Land
use analysis and land management techniques, including the legalisation
of tenure in informal settlements
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Participatory
design and operation of infrastructure and services for settlement
upgrading processes
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Step-by-step
implementation of physical and social infrastructure including energy
efficiency aspects
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Implementation
of low-cost housing, incremental housing and settlement upgrading
programmes
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Housing
finance, including development of micro-credit systems, building
material, construction and home improvement loans (e.g. revolving,
equity and market development funds)
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Interinstitutional
cooperation between urban development agencies (e.g. municipalities, utility companies,
financial agents and ministries) as well as social sector institutions
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Networking
between NGOs, governmental institutions and private sector
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