Ghana, Africa's first independent nation, is yet another example of a rapidly urbanizing country. The urban population is expected to double between 2000 and 2015 and the majority of these new urban dwellers will find themselves living in slum conditions and poorer settlements. Today, Ghana’s urban poor, like most slum dwellers around the world, struggle with issues of sanitation, infrastructure, and natural disasters, including fire outbreaks (because of densely packed wooden structures) and flooding (many of Ghana’s slums are located on marginal land prone to flooding), but, they also face the challenge of forced evictions. (abstract from http://www.homeless-international.org)