A Campaign to support Women in informal neighborhoods to explore Resilience.
ROOH – Roof Over Our Heads is a campaign that envisions delivering resilient, low carbon and affordable homes and improving public infrastructure to urban residents, particularly those living and working in informality. ROOH’s vision links itself to the UN High Level Champions Race to Resilience and Race to Zero Campaigns, and expects itself to deliver the Race to Resilience goal of building resilience of 4 billion people across the globe, that remain most vulnerable to the disastrous effects of climate change
2025 - Roof Over Our Heads: Constructing Evidence at Scale — Volume III
Roof Over Our Heads – Volume III marks a turning point in the campaign’s journey. Now halfway toward 100 learning labs across 20 countries, this volume shows how communities, women’s collectives and young professionals are producing rigorous, grounded evidence on what it takes to make informal homes resilient to extreme heat, rain and wind.
Building on earlier volumes, this edition demonstrates how documentation has matured into a wider ecosystem of locally driven experimentation, testing materials, refining designs and negotiating new forms of partnership and finance. Each lab acts as a space where communities learn by doing and where practical solutions emerge from lived experience rather than external prescriptions.
Volume III captures this shift from isolated demonstrations to constructing evidence at scale. Through neighbourhood monitoring, cross-country exchanges and collaborations with universities, material providers and local authorities, ROOH is steadily influencing how climate resilience is understood and integrated into policy.
At its core, this volume reinforces a simple truth: resilience must be co-produced. Communities facing the harshest climate impacts are generating knowledge, shaping solutions and driving change. Constructing Evidence at Scale brings their realities and leadership to the centre, ensuring that climate strategies and investments do not continue to overlook those living informally, invisibly and with the least resources.
Roof Over Our Heads: Building Futures, Brick by Brick — Volume II
The second volume in the Roof Over Our Heads series marks a bold progression from its origins a campaign rooted in lived realities, community ingenuity and collaborative action. Launched on the global stage at COP28 in Dubai, Volume II chronicles how the campaign has grown, deepening its presence across Indian cities and expanding globally to South-East Asia, East Africa and Latin America.
This edition captures a pivotal year of co-creation with women’s collectives and informal communities transforming how housing is imagined, documented and designed in the face of climate extremes. Through immersive learning labs and grounded partnerships ROOH delves into neighborhood level data collection and analysis, resilient material solutions and the everyday strategies people use to survive and thrive in uncertainty.
More than a record of methods Volume II is a celebration of collective resilience. It elevates the voices of women, strengthens cross-continental collaborations and showcases how design, affordability and adaptability converge when local communities lead the way.
‘Roof Over Our Heads: Unveiling Resilience in the Face of Climate Challenge.’
This one year transformative journey has brought together informal communities, women, and young professionals to develop a comprehensive methodology for documenting the current challenges posed by climate change. Download the book now to explore the vulnerabilities faced by these communities and discover the coping mechanisms they have undertaken in the relentless face of climate change.
ROOH Timeline
First Regional Round Table
U.S.A Region Round Table
European Region
Round Table
MENA Region Round Table
ROOH Campaign
Launch at COP27, Egypt
Inception of 10 ROOH
Phase -1 Labs in India
LAC Region
Roundtable
Workshop in Manila
ROOH with HOLCIM &
Phillippine Alliance
Inception of 21 ROOH
Phase-1 labs in
Latin America
ROOH at COP 28,
book launch,
Dubai
ROOH with ARUP &
Mahila Milan , Workshop
& Training, Surat
ROOH with Mahila Milan
Workshop & Training,
Ahmednagar
Workshop & Training,
Pune
Bhubaneshwar
Workshop
Workshop & Training,
Paradeep
ROOH Phase – 2
Pimpri
ROOH Challenge
2024
ROOH Team visit
to LAC labs
Inception of 3 ROOH
Phase-1 labs in Indonesia
ROOH Teachers
Training Program
ROOH Phase-2
Surat
Innovative 4 Cities,
Canada
Inception of 2 ROOH
Phase-1 labs in Kenya
12th World Urban Forum,
Cairo
ROOHs’ Theory of Change
Partners
ROOH envisions having an ever-growing partnership relationship with local, national and global institutions and experts. ROOH currently has working relationships with
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