Presently, the organization is undertaking the following key projects:

Project to Advance the Right to Effective Remedies for Violations of ESC Rights

Project to Operationalize the Right to Adequate Housing
This project aims to heighten housing rights awareness, while building the capacity of the residents of slums and other local communities in Nigeria to become pro-active in the defense of their right to housing. Among other things, the project explores points of intersection between rights-based and development-based approaches to the expansion of access to housing, and seeks to integrate rights-based interventions with creative development-oriented models of community action as part of a coherent strategy for addressing the sordid state of housing in Nigeria.

Nigeria Social Housing Initiative (NSHI)
Proceeding upon a rights-based platform, SERAC’s Nigeria Social Housing Initiative (NSHI) undertakes integrated, innovative approaches towards slum communities’ improvement of their housing conditions and the social, economic and environmental functioning of their neighborhoods.

It has seven overall primary goals:

1. to improve the living conditions in Maroko and Badia (through physical renovation of some existing houses and the construction of new houses for a specified number of families), and uphold the community members’ rights to adequate housing and to live in peace, dignity, and security;
   
   
2. to create awareness among target slum communities and build their capacity to undertake innovative approaches towards the improvement of their housing and the social, economic and environmental functioning of their neighborhoods;
   
   
3. to undertake skills training programs to enable community members to, in part, internally source, harness and refine labor, economic and other local inputs that may contribute to the effective realization and sustainability of the initiative;
   
   
4. to research, develop and institute a savings scheme to underpin the target slum communities’ self-help urban regeneration;
   
   
5. to explore the most effective and efficient associational vehicle for the target communities’ ownership and participation in the social housing initiative;
   
   
6. to promote engagement among community members; local, state and federal government agencies and officials; policymakers; legislative bodies; professional and trade bodies; civil society groups; the organized and informal private sector; and members of the media on the utility and imperative of developing an appropriate policy, legal and collaborative framework for social housing in Nigeria; and
   
7. to promote public awareness and support of social housing as an important approach to combating the widespread, extreme poverty in Nigeria’s exploding slums and its incumbent complexities, and to modulating urban challenges.

Makoko Emergency Relief Project