Tunisia
Housing in Tunisia typically lacks connections to basic services, and other communal infrastructures like roads, rainwater drainage, public lighting, and community spaces because the land is not designated for residential building. In the World Cities Report 2016, UN-Habitat recognized Tunisia’s success at upgrading neighbourhoods. While multiple organizations have contributed to the neighbourhood-upgrading programs, the programs are led by one organization, the Tunisian Urban Rehabilitation and Renewal Agency (Agence de Réhabilitation et de Rénovation Urbaine or ARRU). With the 2007 launch of the Support Program for Big Cities, Tunisia’s neighbourhood-upgrading programs increased their scope of work and programming.
RESEARCHERS
Cadlha Gray
Cadhla Gray recently graduated from the Master of Global Affairs program at the University of Toronto, completing a collaborative degree in Environmental Studies. As part of the 2017-2018 Tunisia case study team, Cadhla studied the provision of basic services through urban neighbourhood rehabilitation programs. As an intern at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), she helped develop its Strategic Work Plan on Disaster Risk Reduction, which highlighted the impacts of climate change and natural disasters on migration and mapped the organization's resilience programming. Cadhla has worked in public engagement over the last two years, facilitating consultations on various health policies and urban development projects in Ontario.
Wendy Wang
Wendy Wang was part of the Tunisia team from the 2017/18 Reach cohort, where she studied neighbourhood renewal strategies in Tunisia. She majored in Global Health and Immunology, and will begin to pursue a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Calgary this fall. She was previously a Queen Elizabeth II Scholar at the University of Glasgow, Scotland involved in immunology research, and previously partnered with the Ontario Ministry of Childhood and Social Services studying basic income policy implementation in Ontario.
Tina Vulevic
Tina Vulevic studies International Relations and European Studies. She has immersed herself in global affairs by interning at the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, and was previously named a Jackman Humanities Institute Scholar-in-Residence. She currently leads an organization called Diplomats on Campus, which brings together students and practitioners of foreign policy. Tina was part of the 2017/2018 Reach Project cohort, investigating urban upgrading and rehabilitation program delivery in Tunisia, which has greatly furthered her interest in public policy in North Africa and the Middle East.
