Informal settlement enumerations - SDI - Know Your City dataset

The document titled "Informal settlement enumerations - SDI - Know Your City dataset" describes enumerations as community-initiated and run censuses. These enumerations generate a socio-economic and demographic profile, ascertain the tenure status, level of services, and development aspirations. Networks of urban poor consciously adopt strategies of self-enumeration, which become powerful negotiation tools in their dealings with governments. By leveraging their own resources through this exercise of information gathering, communities are best positioned to articulate a demand-sided development agenda. By making themselves "visible" to governments, residents of informal settlements have the most up-to-date knowledge on the number of households in their settlement, the duration of their residence, and their means of livelihood.