Tadamon: Cairo Urban Solidarity Project

TADAMON is an initiative that brings together voices of local residents of underserved areas, students and academics, planners and architects, government officials, elected council members, legislators, activists and concerned citizens to start a dialogue on urban development issues and work closely to push forward an alternative and more participatory urban development agenda.
TADAMON believes urban development must embody a more participatory framework to achieve sustainable improvements in Cairo’s underserved areas, not only due to a belief in citizenship and public engagement but also because Cairenes are great experts about how to strengthen their communities.
In its attempt to develop this alternative agenda, TADAMON will focus on identifying, documenting, and disseminating lessons learned, successful examples, and models of participatory urban development approaches in Egypt. Throughout its first phase spanning over a year, TADAMON will also focus on experiences of other countries that have gone through similar transitions to democracy. To this end, TADAMON will develop dissemination tools including an open access bi-lingual database, interactive website, social media platforms and public seminars to provide information and resources to Cairene residents focusing on participatory urban development and upgrading as tools for improving the living conditions of the city’s inhabitants.

The presentation will be primarily in Arabic but there will be slides in English. The discussion will be in Arabic and English