Majority of world population live in poverty and struggle to fulfil the most basic needs like health, education, access water sanitation. Past studies indicate resources deprivation among residents informal settlements. In Africa, 43% individuals are living destitution urban territories a proportion which compares with 59% people rural areas. Due high rate traders settlements unable financial s...

The promotion of financial inclusion is important for the combating exclusion in many countries, including South Africa. Nonetheless, most low-income earners living rural areas and informal settlements are still struggling to gain access basic products services This status quo has been caused by a number factors such as absence an adequate policy, geographical remoteness institutions earners, r...

Theoretically, co-management provides a fruitful way to engage local residents in efforts to conserve and manage particular spaces of ecological value. However, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation in particular, are faced with novel sets of complexities in the rapidly urbanizing areas of Cape Town, South Africa, and in the nexus between an apartheid past, informal settlem...

extended abstract 1. introduction after industrial revolution, complex economic and technical developments led to wide changes in the size of cities, the proportion of the population in urban areas, and the growth rate of urbanization (johnson, 1998). more than half of the world population currently lives in urban areas and the uncontrolled expansion of cities is becoming a global concern. it i...

BACKGROUND Roma represent one of the largest and oldest minorities in Europe. Health of many of them, particularly those living in settlements, is heavily compromised by poor dwelling, low educational level, unemployment, and poverty rooted in generational poverty, segregation and discrimination. The cross-sectional population-based study using community based approach aimed to map the prevalen...