World Bank2024-05-022024-05-022021-09-30https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41484This Note aims to provide a step-by-step guide for the World Bank (the Bank hereafter) teams to identify and support opportunities for community participation across various types of slum upgrading. The Note is prompted by a recent engagement of the Bank with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through Reimbursable Advisory Services (RAS) during 2019-2020 on upgrading informal settlements. It is developed through a desk review of the extensive body of literature on slum upgrading and participatory approaches, as well as the Bank-financed and other slum upgrading projects (see Section 6 for the list of projects). This was complemented by a few rounds of consultations with task teams and thought leaders at the Bank.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOSUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIESSDG 11URBAN DEVELOPMENTSLUM UPGRADINGSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALSReportWorld Bank10.1596/41484