Cross-cutting Areas of Practice
Monitoring, Evaluating and Learning
DIG is committed to a data-driven and evidence-based approach to achieve results. Every program we…
Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
DIG believes that gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental to realize intrinsic human rights…
Surveys and Assessments
DIG conducts baseline studies, market assessments and sectoral assessments under ongoing programs or as independent…
Youth in Development
DIG strengthens the capacity of youth to enable them to acquire the knowledge and skills…
Support Services and Workforce Augmentation
Vocational Training and Employment for the Urban Poor Securing long-term economic opportunities for vulnerable populations…
Organizational Development and Capacity Building for NGOs and CBOs
DIG designs and implements targeted and high-impact capacity building plans for local organizations that serve…
Innovative Financing
Housing Microfinance Key services DIG offers in the field of housing microfinance include: market assessments;…
Dakar Municipal Finance Program
The city of Dakar, Senegal, hired DIG to help it launch its first municipal bond. DIG is providing technical and monitoring assistance to the municipality, which expects to raise a maximum of USD 40 million through a five-year bond scheduled to be offered in 2015.
Urbis – Urban Capacity Learning Laboratory
The focus of the Urbis program included slum improvement, provision of basic services (water and sanitation), land tenure regularization, and financing for the urban poor, with advocacy as a cross-cutting theme.
Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa (SUWASA)
Sustainable Water and Sanitation in Africa (SUWASA) – Under USAID’s Water II IQC, SUWASA aimed to promote innovative reforms and sustainable financing for water and sanitation.
Housing Finance for the Poor (HFP)
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HFP was a three-year, multi-country contract to test and explore innovations in the field of housing finance for the poor.
Global Program for Inclusive Municipal Governance (GPIMG)
GPIMG focused on supporting city leadership and community-based partnerships to develop inclusive urban policies so that more and better resources reach the urban poor.
Accountable Democratic Action (ADA) through Social Cohesion
The USAID-funded ADA Program focused on creating social cohesion by informing citizens living in informal settlements of their constitutional rights to housing and basic services. DIG worked with approximately 200,000 residents of 35 informal settlements across Zimbabwe (Harare, Bulawayo, Masvingo, Kadoma, and Epworth). Collaborating with Dialogue on Shelter, a Slum Dwellers International affiliate, the ADA program team successfully mobilized slum dwellers into 100+ women-led solidarity groups. This allowed them to peacefully engage with government authorities and advocate to protect their rights. Local and national decision-makers’ increased accountability regarding constitutional provisions protected the urban poor’s rights to shelter and basic services.