Advanced Evaluation of Slum Redevelopment and Community Resettlement Outcomes Training Course

Course Introduction

Slum redevelopment and community resettlement programmes are complex urban development interventions that can transform housing conditions, infrastructure, land use, access to services, and household economic opportunities. However, the completion of physical construction does not necessarily demonstrate improved living conditions for former residents. This course equips participants to evaluate whether redevelopment initiatives deliver measurable, equitable, and sustainable improvements in housing adequacy, affordability, tenure security, public health, economic resilience, and community wellbeing.

The course examines the full redevelopment and resettlement cycle, from baseline assessments and stakeholder consultations to relocation planning, implementation monitoring, post-resettlement evaluation, and long-term impact measurement. Participants will explore how to establish credible evaluation questions, reconstruct theories of change, select appropriate evaluation criteria, and distinguish project outputs from intermediate outcomes and lasting impacts. Particular attention is given to identifying unintended consequences, displacement pressures, exclusion risks, and differences between planned beneficiaries and households that may be overlooked by administrative records.

A central component of the programme is the application of advanced mixed-methods evaluation approaches to complex urban settings. Participants will learn to combine household surveys, administrative records, geospatial analysis, participatory assessments, focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and longitudinal monitoring. The training considers how comparison groups, before-and-after assessments, contribution analysis, and other appropriate evaluation designs can strengthen causal interpretation while accounting for changing urban markets, demographic movements, policy shifts, and other external influences.

Community resettlement outcomes extend beyond the quality of replacement housing. Relocation may affect household expenditure, travel times, employment opportunities, informal businesses, social networks, access to schools and healthcare, community identity, and relationships with public institutions. The course therefore examines practical ways to assess livelihood restoration, affordability, social cohesion, perceived safety, accessibility, satisfaction, and the distribution of benefits and burdens among different population groups. Participants will also learn to interpret results disaggregated by gender, age, disability, household composition, tenure status, income level, and other locally relevant characteristics.

Ethical and rights-based evaluation is integrated throughout the programme. Participants will examine informed consent, confidentiality, secure handling of household data, inclusive participation, grievance analysis, and responsible engagement with people affected by displacement. The training also addresses evaluation independence, risks of selection bias, political and institutional pressures, weak baseline information, attrition in longitudinal studies, and challenges in locating households after relocation. Practical exercises will help participants identify methodological limitations and communicate uncertainty without weakening the usefulness of findings for programme improvement and accountability.

By the end of the course, participants will be better equipped to design and manage rigorous evaluations, assess the effectiveness of redevelopment and resettlement interventions, and translate evidence into practical recommendations. The programme emphasizes decision-oriented reporting, performance dashboards, outcome verification, lessons learned, and adaptive management. Its approaches can be tailored to different national legal frameworks, urban governance arrangements, financing models, and community contexts, helping institutions strengthen programme design and ensure that redevelopment contributes to inclusive, resilient, and sustainable urban development.

Duration

10 days

Who Should Attend

• Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning specialists working on urban development, housing, and settlement transformation programmes.

• Urban planners, city managers, municipal officials, and housing authorities responsible for redevelopment and resettlement initiatives.

• Government officers overseeing informal settlement upgrading, land administration, housing delivery, and urban infrastructure.

• Social safeguards specialists and resettlement practitioners responsible for assessing displacement impacts and restoration measures.

• Development programme managers overseeing donor-funded or government-supported urban regeneration projects.

• Researchers, evaluation consultants, and policy analysts conducting impact assessments of housing and community development interventions.

• Community development officers and practitioners facilitating resident participation, consultation, and neighbourhood recovery.

• Non-governmental organisations and civil society organisations representing informal settlement residents and affected households.

• Land acquisition, compensation, livelihood restoration, and grievance redress specialists.

• Urban economists, geospatial analysts, statisticians, and social scientists involved in urban poverty and housing research.

• Donor representatives, development finance professionals, and programme assurance teams reviewing redevelopment performance.

• Professionals working in public health, environmental management, climate resilience, gender equality, disability inclusion, and social protection.

Course Objectives

• Develop advanced competencies for evaluating the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, equity, and sustainability of slum redevelopment and community resettlement interventions.

• Formulate evaluation questions and theories of change that connect redevelopment investments with measurable housing, livelihood, service-access, and community wellbeing outcomes.

• Design credible baseline, midline, endline, and post-resettlement assessments that capture changes in household conditions before and after relocation.

• Apply appropriate quantitative, qualitative, participatory, and mixed-methods techniques to generate reliable evidence from diverse and changing urban populations.

• Assess housing adequacy, affordability, tenure security, infrastructure quality, access to essential services, and resident satisfaction using clearly defined indicators.

• Evaluate livelihood restoration, employment continuity, business recovery, household income, transport expenditure, and the broader economic consequences of relocation.

• Measure social cohesion, community participation, social networks, perceived safety, cultural continuity, and relationships between residents and public institutions.

• Identify distributional differences and unintended impacts affecting women, children, older people, persons with disabilities, tenants, informal workers, and other potentially vulnerable groups.

• Strengthen the use of geospatial analysis, administrative data, digital surveys, and outcome dashboards for tracking relocation patterns and neighbourhood-level change.

• Assess the quality of consultation, transparency, compensation processes, grievance mechanisms, and resettlement safeguards against applicable standards and legal requirements.

• Interpret evaluation findings with appropriate attention to attribution, contribution, external influences, data quality, uncertainty, and methodological limitations.

• Produce evidence-based recommendations, management responses, and learning products that support accountability, adaptive implementation, and more inclusive future redevelopment programmes.

Comprehensive Course Outline

Module 1: Foundations of Slum Redevelopment and Resettlement Evaluation

• Concepts, objectives, and models of informal settlement upgrading, urban regeneration, in-situ improvement, redevelopment, and community relocation.

• Differences between physical project completion, service delivery, household outcomes, community-level impacts, and long-term urban development effects.

• International development priorities concerning adequate housing, inclusive cities, basic services, tenure security, and equitable access to urban opportunities.

• Roles of public authorities, implementing agencies, financiers, private developers, civil society, and affected communities in evaluation governance.

Module 2: Evaluation Frameworks, Criteria, and Theories of Change

• Applying relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability criteria to complex urban redevelopment programmes.

• Developing results chains that connect project resources, infrastructure outputs, relocation activities, household outcomes, and longer-term social impacts.

• Mapping assumptions, contextual risks, causal pathways, implementation dependencies, and external factors that may influence intended outcomes.

• Establishing evaluation questions, scope, criteria, stakeholder expectations, and decision-use requirements for different stages of the programme cycle.

Module 3: Baseline Studies and Community Socioeconomic Profiling

• Designing household and neighbourhood baseline assessments covering housing conditions, tenure arrangements, income, expenditure, services, and livelihood activities.

• Mapping population characteristics, informal businesses, community institutions, social networks, service dependencies, and locally identified priorities.

• Developing sampling frames for mobile populations, tenants, subtenants, informal workers, and households missing from official beneficiary registers.

• Establishing baseline data quality controls, reference periods, household identification procedures, and protocols for subsequent follow-up assessments.

Module 4: Advanced Evaluation Design and Causal Inference

• Selecting experimental, quasi-experimental, longitudinal, comparative case study, and theory-based evaluation designs according to programme context.

• Using comparison areas, matched households, difference-in-differences approaches, and interrupted time-series methods where assumptions are defensible.

• Applying contribution analysis and process tracing to understand how redevelopment activities plausibly influence observed household and community outcomes.

• Addressing selection bias, confounding factors, spillover effects, attrition, migration, and limitations in attributing observed changes to project interventions.

Module 5: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed-Methods Assessment

• Designing structured questionnaires, household expenditure surveys, resident satisfaction instruments, and repeatable post-relocation monitoring tools.

• Conducting focus groups, key informant interviews, participatory mapping, case studies, and observation to understand lived resettlement experiences.

• Integrating qualitative explanations with statistical findings to examine contradictory evidence, contextual differences, and unexpected programme outcomes.

• Applying data validation, triangulation, transcription protocols, coding frameworks, and quality assurance procedures to strengthen evaluation credibility.

Module 6: Housing Quality, Affordability, and Tenure Security

• Measuring structural safety, usable living space, ventilation, sanitation, water access, accessibility, and compliance with applicable housing standards.

• Assessing total housing costs, rent or mortgage obligations, utilities, transport expenditure, service charges, and household affordability pressures.

• Evaluating tenure documentation, occupancy security, risks of eviction, eligibility for housing allocation, and access to transparent dispute resolution.

• Comparing replacement housing with pre-relocation conditions and suitable benchmarks to determine whether housing outcomes improve equitably.

Module 7: Livelihood Restoration and Economic Impact Evaluation

• Establishing indicators for employment continuity, household income, business survival, occupational change, and access to local economic opportunities.

• Evaluating the impacts of relocation on informal trading, customer networks, commuting patterns, market access, and household time use.

• Measuring compensation adequacy, transition costs, debt exposure, lost assets, livelihood assistance, and the sustainability of economic recovery measures.

• Analysing changes in income and expenditure across population groups and identifying households that remain economically worse off after resettlement.

Module 8: Social Cohesion, Community Networks, and Wellbeing

• Assessing changes in family support systems, neighbourhood relationships, mutual assistance, community organisations, and informal care arrangements.

• Measuring residents’ perceptions of safety, belonging, dignity, social inclusion, trust, and relationships with public authorities.

• Evaluating continuity of access to schools, healthcare, worship, childcare, public spaces, and culturally significant community facilities.

• Using participatory methods to investigate conflict, isolation, psychosocial stress, community adaptation, and differences in resettlement experiences.

Module 9: Equity, Gender, Human Rights, and Vulnerability Analysis

• Disaggregating outcomes by gender, age, disability, income, household type, tenure status, and other locally meaningful dimensions of inequality.

• Assessing whether consultation, eligibility, compensation, relocation assistance, and replacement housing allocation are accessible and nondiscriminatory.

• Evaluating the distinct risks faced by tenants, female-headed households, older residents, persons with disabilities, and informal livelihood operators.

• Applying rights-based and ethical evaluation principles to participation, informed consent, confidentiality, safeguarding, and responsible reporting.

Module 10: Community Participation and Stakeholder Accountability

• Evaluating the quality, timing, inclusiveness, and influence of community consultation during planning, implementation, relocation, and recovery.

• Analysing stakeholder power relationships, representation gaps, information asymmetries, and barriers to meaningful participation in decisions.

• Assessing grievance redress mechanisms through accessibility, resolution time, case outcomes, recurrence, transparency, and resident confidence.

• Using community scorecards, participatory monitoring, feedback loops, and validation meetings to verify findings and improve programme responsiveness.

Module 11: Geospatial Analysis, Digital Data, and Urban Monitoring

• Using geographic information systems and spatial analysis to compare settlement conditions, relocation sites, service coverage, and travel distances.

• Integrating household survey records with administrative data, maps, satellite-derived information, and service accessibility measures where appropriate.

• Designing digital data collection protocols, secure databases, household tracking systems, and dashboards for routine resettlement outcome monitoring.

• Managing geolocation privacy, data linkage risks, missing records, boundary changes, and the ethical limitations of remote sensing and digital surveillance.

Module 12: Resettlement Safeguards, Compensation, and Livelihood Recovery

• Reviewing resettlement plans, eligibility criteria, household registers, compensation procedures, relocation schedules, and implementation commitments.

• Evaluating whether compensation and assistance reflect applicable law, project requirements, verified losses, and relevant safeguard standards.

• Monitoring livelihood restoration measures, transitional support, replacement assets, vulnerable household assistance, and unresolved displacement-related impacts.

• Designing compliance reviews and completion assessments that verify implementation while examining whether affected households have actually recovered.

Module 13: Environmental Health, Infrastructure, and Climate Resilience

• Evaluating improvements in water supply, sanitation, drainage, waste management, electricity, transport access, and neighbourhood environmental conditions.

• Measuring exposure to flooding, heat, pollution, fire, disease risks, and other environmental hazards before and after redevelopment.

• Assessing the accessibility, reliability, maintenance, and affordability of new infrastructure and public services for relocated households.

• Investigating whether redevelopment reduces vulnerability or transfers environmental risks and service burdens to new locations or neighbouring communities.

Module 14: Data Analysis, Outcome Indicators, and Performance Dashboards

• Developing indicator reference sheets with clear definitions, baselines, targets, disaggregation categories, data sources, and reporting frequencies.

• Applying descriptive statistics, trend analysis, subgroup comparisons, index construction, and appropriate statistical tests to evaluation datasets.

• Integrating qualitative themes, household-level trajectories, geospatial results, and administrative records into a coherent assessment of programme performance.

• Interpreting missing data, contradictory evidence, confidence limits, practical significance, and measurement limitations before drawing conclusions.

Module 15: Evaluation Reporting, Learning, and Adaptive Management

• Structuring evaluation reports around clear findings, supporting evidence, conclusions, limitations, and actionable recommendations for decision-makers.

• Translating complex results into executive summaries, policy briefs, stakeholder presentations, scorecards, and accessible community feedback materials.

• Prioritising recommendations according to urgency, expected benefit, feasibility, institutional responsibility, resource requirements, and implementation risk.

• Establishing management response systems, action trackers, learning reviews, and follow-up monitoring to assess whether recommendations lead to improvement.

Module 16: Integrated Evaluation Practicum and Capstone Assessment

• Developing a complete evaluation plan for a simulated or participant-selected redevelopment and resettlement intervention with defined objectives and methods.

• Preparing a results framework, indicator matrix, sampling approach, data collection instruments, ethical protocol, and analysis plan.

• Analysing a sample dataset to identify housing, livelihood, service-access, equity, and community wellbeing outcomes after relocation.

• Presenting evidence-based findings and recommendations to a simulated evaluation panel, incorporating feedback and defending methodological choices.

Training Approach

This course will be delivered by our skilled trainers who have vast knowledge and experience as expert professionals in the fields. The course is taught in English and through a mix of theory, practical activities, group discussion and case studies. Course manuals and additional training materials will be provided to the participants upon completion of the training.

Tailor-Made Course

This course can also be tailor-made to meet organization requirement. For further inquiries, please contact us on: Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com Tel: +254 721 331 808

Training Venue 

The training will be held at our Upskill Training Centre. We also offer training for a group (at a discount of 10% to 50%) at requested location all over the world. The Onsite course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, buffet lunch, airport transfers, Upskill gift package, and guided tour.

Visa application, travel expenses, dinners, accommodation, insurance, and other personal expenses are catered by the participant

Certification

Participants will be issued with Upskill certificate upon completion of this course.

Airport Pickup and Accommodation

Airport pickup and accommodation is arranged upon request. For booking contact our Training Coordinator through Email: training@upskilldevelopment.com, +254 721 331 808

Terms of Payment:

Unless otherwise agreed between the two parties’ payment of the course fee should be done 3 working days before commencement of the training so as to enable us to prepare better.