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For the 2000 listing, particularly note:

South Africa:
Provision of Infrastructure for a Housing Development in Temba
The provision of bulk and related infrastructure for housing was used as a vehicle to provide local employment opportunities. Initiate and facilitate training of skills and entrepreneurship. Build capacity of the council and facilitate the employment of women , youth and the disabled.

Tanzania:
Ibungilo Community Clean Water Supply Project
It was seen that it was expensive to provide any service such as water supply in the Ibungilo squatter area because it needed to construct a reservoir tank and booster station for pumping the water uphill. This was too expensive for an area "illegally" inhabited considering the fact that most of inhabitants in Ibungilo live below poverty line. This did not provide any incentive of investing in an area where it was obvious. The example highlights the actions taken.

Uganda:
Safe Water Supply and Sanitation and Waste Reccycling and Re-Use
The purpose of this initiative was to avail clean water particularly to the Urban poor and marginalised groups through providing water kiosks that are self-sustaining. On the broader sense, the initiative was also unsure that water source were free of all forms of pollution by encouraging community participation in the management of the wetlands resources that primarily perform the filtration process of water thus ensuring the provision of clean and safe water. In this initiative emphasis was put on enabling the community to access safe water by encouraging proper sanitation practices, protecting water sources through use appropriate and affordable technologies and by involving the communities in the management of these resources so as to ensure sustainability.