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Roof Over Our Heads Campaign

A new campaign that aims to improve by 2050 the lives of 2 billion climate vulnerable people living in informal settlements will be launched at COP27 today.

Roof Over Our Heads (ROOH) was conceived out of a recognition of a collective failure to address the lack of access to safe and decent houses for the most vulnerable communities.

The campaign will seek to implement a system of solutions from the ground up, beginning with the poorest and most vulnerable neighbourhoods. The idea is to demonstrate that larger volumes of resources can move with ease to small projects.

This grassroots approach challenges the notion of norms and standards to demonstrate incremental upgrading as a robust option to fully reconstruct houses for the poorest.

It will also explore decision making which puts women’s collectives at the centre of solutions, and where peer-to-peer learning across cities, national regions and continents is possible on the basis of evidence and sharing of solutions.