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[[File:2011 World Water Week Opening Plenary Monday 11.jpg|Sheela Patel speaks at the 2011 Opening Plenary of World Water Week|thumb|right|250px]]<br />
'''Sheela Patel''' (born 1952) is an activist and academic involved with people living in [[slums]] and [[shanty towns]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
In 1974, Patel received her Masters in Social Work from the [[Tata Institute of Social Sciences]] in [[Mumbai]]. She was then involved with a community centre called the Nagpada Neighbourhood House.<ref name=edX>{{cite web |url=https://www.edx.org/bio/sheela-patel |title=Sheela Patel |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=edX |access-date=2019-04-03 }}</ref><br />
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==SPARC==<br />
With [[Prema Gopalan]], Patel is the founding director of the [[Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres]] (SPARC), which she set up in [[Mumbai]] in 1984 as an advocacy group for the [[pavement dwellers]] of Mumbai. SPARC continues to this day to play a major role in the politics of slum development in [[India]] and throughout the [[Third World]].<ref>Development Gateway Foundation: Urban Development: [https://web.archive.org/web/20060728174354/http://topics.developmentgateway.org/urban/sdm/previewDocument.do~activeDocumentId=1001444?activeDocumentId=1001444 Empowering Slum Dwellers: Interview with Sheela Patel], 7 September 2004</ref> In 2000, SPARC was the recipient of the [[United Nations Human Settlement Award]].<ref name=edX /><br />
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==Groups==<br />
Patel works closely with the [[National Slum Dwellers Federation]] (NSDF) and [[Mahila Milan]], two community-based groups working on with the poor in Indian cities. She worked in the National Technical Advisory Group (NTAG) for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).<br />
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She has founded the [[Asian Coalition for Housing Rights]], the [[Asian Women and Shelter Network]] and [[Swayam Shikshan Prayog]] (SSP), an organisation that works with women's collectives in more than 600 villages in Maharashtra.<ref name=edX /><br />
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Patel is also a founder and current chairperson of [[Slum Dwellers International]], a network of community-based organisations in 33 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
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==Awards==<br />
2011: [[Padma Shri]] award, the fourth highest civilian honor in India.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121104213759/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-25/india/28360438_1_theatre-padma-shri-award-winners ]</ref><br />
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2009: David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award <ref name=edX /><br />
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2000: [[UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award]]<br />
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==Selected works==<br />
*Patel, Sheela; Arputham, Jockin; Bartlett, Sheridan. 2015. '"We beat the path by walking": How the women of Mahila Milan in India learned to plan, design, finance and build housing.' ''Environment & Urbanization'', 28(1) [https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247815617440 Free access]<br />
*Patel, Sheela. 2013. 'Upgrade, Rehouse or Resettle? An Assessment of the Indian Government's Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) Programme'. ''Environment & Urbanization'', 25(1): 177-188.<br />
*Patel, Sheela. 2012. 'Supporting data collection by the poor' [https://www.alliancemagazine.org/feature/supporting-data-collection-by-the-poor/ Alliance Magazine]<br />
*Patel, Sheela; Baptist, Carrie Baptist; D'Cruz, Celine. 2012. 'Knowledge is power – Informal Communities Assert Their Right to the City through SDI and Community-led Enumerations'. ''Environment & Urbanization'', 24(1).<br />
*Patel, Sheela. 2011. 'Are Women Victims, or Are They Warriors?' in ''Women's Health and the World's Cities'', chapter 6, (eds) Afaf Ibrahim, Meleis, Eugénie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.<br />
* Patel, Sheela. 2011. 'Recasting the Vision of Megacities in the South. Emerging Challenges for the North-South Dialogue in Development', in (ed)Robertson-von Trotha, Caroline Y. (ed.): ''Europe: Insights from the Outside Kulturwissenschaft interdisziplinär/Interdisciplinary Studies on Culture and Society'', Vol 5 Baden-Baden<br />
*Patel, Sheela & Mitlin, Diana. 2010. 'Gender Issues and Slum/Shack Dweller Federations' (report). International Institute for Environment and Development.<br />
*Patel, Sheela; Sheuya, Shaaban; Howden-Chapman, Philippa . 2007. 'The Design of Housing and Shelter Programs: The Social and Environmental Determinants of Inequalities' in ''Journal of Urban Health'', 84(1) 98-108.<br />
*Patel, Sheela; Burra, Sundar; D'Cruz, Celine. 2001 'Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) – Foundations to treetops' in ''Environment and Urbanization'' 13(2) 45-59.<br />
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