The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) seeks a part-time Researcher and Facilitator in Lagos, Nigeria, over a three-month period from September to early December 2022 to develop the project “Building for Today and for the Future” – a collaborative agenda for a just transition of the built environment.
The project will consider the full range of human rights but will have a particular focus on: meaningful participation; spatial justice; the right to housing; and workers’ rights. An intersectional lens will be applied throughout, considering the range of factors that affect people’s experience of the world including gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and immigration status.
The project will identify pathways to reduce the climate footprint and strengthen resilience of buildings and infrastructure, while also reducing social inequity and respecting human rights. The project will also work to address and overcome the specific obstacles that stand in the way of those pathways.
The project's three interconnected outcomes and activities are:
Strengthening the evidence base: Deep-dive action research in eight cities globally, linking up to their relevant national and regional contexts;
Shifting mindsets: Visioning sessions that invite diverse local stakeholders to imagine what a just and sustainable built environment looks like;
Changing policy and practice: Strategic communications and policy advocacy to influence government and industry practices.
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