The Urban Planning Game is specifically designed to create a safe space where representatives of local authorities and other stakeholders, such as community representatives, can sit down together and debate these issues. It is important that there is a political will from all sides to join the table. In the game stakeholders discover that only through cooperation they can achieve their own objectives.
The game is designed to support the joint identification and planning of improvement projects for slum development. The players are stimulated to generate project ideas for slum development, but also to find innovative solutions. To realize the project, stakeholders need to pitch their ideas and acquire support from the other stakeholders. The game can only be won if at least one common project is identified.
The Urban Planning Game is developed by T-Xchange. Cordaid uses this game in several countries, amongst others in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Philippines, El Salvador, South Africa.
