Mission: The organization carries out activities on community education and facilitates the implementation of technical and social public service related infrastructures. It promotes awareness raising on creation of better housing conditions for the youth and environmental protection.
Year of establishment: 1991
Total number of members: 575
Type of organization: National NGO
Nature of activities: Direct assistance to communities - disadvantaged groups, Policy - advocacy - lobbying, Research - training, Information - public awareness, Networking
Specific target areas: Youth, Urban areas
Mission: L'AMDU s'investit dans le développement urbain et concentre ses efforts, dans la région de Maputo, dans la réhabilitation de l'habitat des personnes touchées par les inondations. Son approche n'est pas seulement urbanistique, mais aussi et surtout social et communautaire. Cet ONG travaille avec le soutien et le partenariat de Oxfam. Nous résumons ici le rapport rédigé par Oxfam sur les actions soutenues à Magoanine.
Mission: Besg specialising in intgrated and people centered development work. It approaches this in am inter-disciplinary way, straddling the fields of development facilitation, conflict resolution, capacity building and training, organisation building and development, programme design, participative planning methodologies, monitoring and evaluation, policy analysis and research. To achieve integrated and people centered development outcomes it draws on the skills of social scientist, seasoned development practitioners, architects, engineers, town planners, building technologists, project managers, micro-finance specialists, policy analysts and researchers. Besg is an affiliate of the urban sector Network; a national network of NGO's that share their experiences to enhance their learning with the aim of achieving improved practices.
Mission: Directly: urban housing practitioners, policy -makers, government officials, NGO practitioners. Indirectly: the urban poor, those in need of better shelter.
Mission: Mission: CCDI’s mission is to offer vision and solutions to the relationship between environmental protection sustainable development and poverty.
CCDI is a non profit and non political organisation and its main objectives are as follows:
• To alleviate poverty through community based conservation of natural resources and management of the environment.
• To promote awareness of the concept of sustainable development.
• To participate actively in the national and global coalition of conservation and development management interests.
• To develop educational initiatives to promote knowledge and understanding of environmental issues
• To promote natural resources management through innovative, small scale and environmentally friendly projects
• To collaborate and form partnerships with communities, other NGOs and the public and private sectors for an exchange of ideas, experience, skills and expertise.
1) These objectives are to be achieved through project related activity, seminar, workshops, publications and networking.
2) The organisation has a commitment to its donor and is ably assisted in this by the Board of Trustees. This policy and procedures therefore intends to reflect CCDI’s basic values and beliefs and show a clear sense of purpose; this in turn should enable the organisation to set an example as a model NGO in the way it achieves its aims and objectives.
3) This policy is intended to form the basis for a happy and stable work environment where the staff are fully motivated and are able to understand and contribute to the organisations goals and objectives. Staff should share the CCDI’s vision and feel that they have a stake in the future growth and success of the organisation.
Mission: Dag is a leading urban development NGO in the Western Cape that supports and impliments community housing and development projects and processes and that works towards the creation of an enabling, community sensitive policy environment.
To imagine (create, implement and support opportunities) for community-centred human settlement development and advocate for and foster a pro poor policy environment which addresses economic, social and spatial imbalances.
Mission: The developmentIndian Ocean Network (DION) is a network of NGOs and such other civil society groups of the indian Ocean Islands Region of Africa comprinsing the islands of Comoros, Magadascar, Mauritius, Reunión and Seychelles. One of its. Objetives is to address the problem of. Rural - urban migration, the challenges facing urbanisation, urban areas and the urban poor.
Mission: To achieve leadership position as a resource and research centre by using qualitative research to promote social justice in Nigeria.
DIN promotes a human rights-focused approach to development and aims to build a strong policy community on a range of focal issues including the protection of women and children's rights.
DIN's activities emphasize policy research, advocacy, networking and information dissemination
Mission: Development Workshop (DW) is a non-profit organisation working to improve settlements and livelihoods of the poor in less-developed communities. Its programme focus areas include shelter, peri-urban upgrading, water supply and sanitation, primary health care, small enterprise development and disaster mitigation. DW’s strategy is to strengthen the capacity of communities and organisations to act on development problems and opportunities. Founded in 1973, DW has worked with communities, grassroots organisations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local and national government authorities and international organisations in more than 30 countries.
Mission: The mission of EACOR is to cooperate for realisation of Economic Social and cultural rights(ESCR) of people and communities in Eastern Africa through strengthening the existing organisations' capacities.
EACOR seeks to network and build partnerships around ESCR especially in form of supporting consultative workshops and advocacy coalitions at national regional and international levels. It also collects and disseminates information that involves mapping exercises on ESCR so as to identify actors and issues for engagement at national, regional and international levels. EACOR intends to build capacity of partners on ESCR for skills development and replication. It seeks also to support lobbying and advocacy actions aimed at creating change and transforming socio-economic and cultural status of people living in poverty and injustice through national regional and international mechanisms. EACOR is housed by Building Eastern Africa Community Network (BEACON)
Mission: Acts as a platform for grassroot community development. Provides training, seminars, workshops and sensitization on: income generating projects, sbusiness management, sustainable agriculture, health nutrition and environment. Encourages community participation in supporting orphans, the aged, widows/widowers, aids victims and the disabled. We access small scale business communities to micro-finance schemes.
Mission: Objectives: To develop and strength the capacity of housing co-operatives and mutual housing groups to respond to affordable housing needs of people of limited means in Zimbabwe.
Mission Statement: Our mission is to create a vibrant and self sustaining housing cooperative movement for Zimbabweans of limited means.
Architecture
Farmers
Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income Pastoralists Peasants
Climate change
Economic, social and cultural rights Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN system Water and sanitation Access to natural resources, Agriculture, Cultural Heritage, Energy, Education, Gender, Hea
Coordination, Local Governance,
Mission: Vision: “A dynamic civil society influencing policies and actions at all levels to safeguard the global environment and promote sustainable development”
Mission: “To safeguard the global environment through strengthening partnerships by enhancing informed participation, contributing to policy development and stimulating local action”.
Mission: IHA-UDP tries to improve the quality of life of the poorest of the poor in a specific area. As such, it implements programmes based on the felt needs of the community and with full participation of the target beneficiaries. The activities reach out to all groups of people (children, youth, women, men) who fall in the category of the poorest of the poor.
VISION:To bring about social justice by alleviating poverty with the full participation of the poorest of the poor to regain their self-dignity and self-worth, and so acquire self-sufficiency.
MISSION:To break the vicious cycle of poverty by dealing with its root causes, primarily through ‘releasing’ them from fatalism, low self-image, loss of dignity and apathy; through concentization resulting in empowerment and capacity building. The poorest of the poor will then become decision making owners, leaders and sustainers of their own development programmes which they priorities for themselves.
OBJECTIVE:·To improve the quality of life of the communities. To achieve this the Project works by addressing the multiple, inter-related felt-needs of the community at the grassroots level using the integrated holistic approach.·To enable the community to be self-sufficient so that all development activities become sustainable beyond Project phase-out.
Mission: Exists out of savings schemes, collect information about themselves, plan and build houses. Main objective is to support the federation in their activities.
Mission: Planact is a non-governmental development organisation whose mission is to bring about local development for the poor within an integrated framework . Community Development , Local Government Capacity Building & Good Governance Training , Research & Analysis , Policy Analysis & Advocacy. Planact also facilitates an ongoing low cost housing project on behalf of local government.
Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's habitat rights
Mission: To address issues and challenges affecting human Settlements in Uganda through advocacy, networking, capacity building and information sharing
Mission: Promotion of housing co-operatives. Campaign for women equal rights of access to land, property ownership and inheritance. Training for youth in constructing skills and building materials. Establishment of savings and credit societies.
Mission: Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious and voluntary organisation, which was established in 1997 by a group of grassroots women, whose major aim is to address the gender injustices on environmental issues as well as break the barriers that tend to hinder gender equity in socio-economic sphere of the life of women and children.
Women Environmental Programme (WEP) is operating as an NGO under the Companies and Allied Matters Act by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). The organisation is administered by a nine-member Board of Trustee, while the management team see to the day to day administration of the organisation with the Executive Director as the operational head. WEP has United Nations special Economic and Social Council Status (UN ECOSOC status)
Vision statement
To create a society where the environmental, economic, social and political rights of women and children are protected
Mission statement
To empower women and children to address the environmental, economic, social and political issues that affects them.
Mission: Capacity building, training, technical assistance to grassroots organisations, research and documentation. To encourage women from all walks of life to share information and create solutions for environmental and development problems.
Mission: The mission of the Garissa Muslim Children’s Home is to provide an environment and facilities within which the inmates can experience love, achieve self confidence, gain education benefit from an Islamic upbringing understand and prepare to serve the Muslim Society in particular and the rest of humanity in general as enshrined in the teaching of Islam.
Climate change
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing policies
UN system Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights
Mission: To advocate for access by all citizens to ownership and utilization of land based resources regardless of
gender, political affiliation, race, religion or ethnicity.
Low income
Destruction of housing
Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Women and forced eviction Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's habitat rights
Mission: APoHa a pour mission : Sensibiliser et regrouper tous les acteurs pauvres ou riches autour de la politique d'eli,inationdes habitations pauvres et insalubres au travers l'aide à la renovation,à l'achevement et à la construction d'habitats simples ,sans discrimination
Mission: Formation en gestion.
Renforcement de capacité pour promouvoir des activités regeneatrices de revenus.
- IEC et pladoyer dans la gestion environnementale
- Asistance aux orphelins de sida
Mission: Les femmes rurales, las colonies urbaines informelles, sesibilization, communication, education , sake , Les activities generahuces de revences coomerce.
Mission: Favoriser le regroupement des femmes pour la défense de leurs droits et intérêts contre toutes formes de violences et de discrimination pour une participation effective des femmes au processus de développement.
Mission: Objectives:
The concept of. Sustainable human developmen has been identified at the Rio 92 Summit and fostered during the WSSD in Johannesburg as the leading strategic framework for proventy alleviation, environmet management and social equity.
Proverty phenomena interplays with negative physical, sociological, judicial and economical situations. Undestading and analyzing them appears as a firts step towards operational actions. In this same vein, a Togolese group of sholars and development specialists has ser up since December 2000, the Concerted Research Center on Development (CRCD) - a non profit association which hold an NGO status. The CRCD roots its activities on the type II parnership modus operandi thata offers the opportunity to the civil society to engage larger spectrum of development activities with public and private sectors. For this end, The CRCD intends to: conceive and to publish methodological, technical and scientific tools for social and economic development
- Participate in studies and researches on topics related to sustainable developement
- establish strong relationship with research institutes abroad and with similar structures at national level
- act. As local representative for international civil society networks in order to mobilize human an material resources for poverty allevation.
Thematic Focus
Land Tenure
Las policies and tenure issues in Africa are currenty focusing attention of decision makers, donor agencies, researches and civil society. CRCD has develop and is implementing a programme on land policy and tenure regimens. It uses various means like a sustainable apprenticeship, information sharing, capacities building and research in order to favor a debate on tenure policies
Environment
Togo is seriously confronted to progressive depletion of its natural resorces. Human bad behaviors are mostly the cause although physical reason cannot be neglected. For CRCD, informing and educating stakeholders is therefore a major component of the national development strategy.
The CRCD will act by all means for the involvement of environmental considerations in development plans, programme and projects. Some highly qualified human resources do exist within CRCD to carry out impact assessment and to formulate norms and standards of. Quality
Urban management .
The rapid urbanization in togo is happening in a context marked by the institutional weakness of the state, the lack of an operational descentralization process and the economic stagnation. Solving the urban development issue will require adequate insfrastructure supply and the amelioration of activities systems in a sanitized living area
Microfinance
Microfinance becomes nowadays an important tool in addessing poverty. When urban and rural poor are deprived from formal financial facilities, its is such decentralized financial systems which rescue them. CRCD takes it as a duty to help in promoting and reinforcing capacities within microfinance organizations by offering its evaluation/ Counsel/training services
Our Achievements
Internal
- Launching of a structure which acquired juridical personality with a functioning headquarters.
- Bringing progressively the land issue in national agenda related to the strategy for poverty alleviation
- Initiating and managing a national network dealing with land tenure issues.
- Various solicitactions in national consulting committees (biological diversity, agenda 21)
- Partnerships with the national chamber of Agriculture
External
- Affiliation to initiatives and networks
- LandNet West Africa (local focal point)
-Plan African programme on lan and Resources Rights (PAPLRR)
- Community Based Natural Resoruces Management Network (CBNRM - Net.)
- Réseau Urbain Participé (RUP)
* Participación in global processes
- WSSD (Johannesburg)
- Policy Research Report 2003 (World Bank)
- E-learning on rural insfrastructure and on land policy (World Bank Institute
- EU Land Policy Guidelines (ILC)
Mission: CONGEH is engaged in offering support and advice, accompanying its member organisartions, building institutional and economic capacities, raising funds and disseminating information.
Climate change
Economic, social and cultural rights Housing and land rights
Urban planning Women and inheritance rights Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Acces aux ressources naturelles, reformes engagees par l autorite publique, Biens communs, Droits de
Plaidoyer aupres d organisme et sur des evenements,
Mission: La mission de la CORAP consiste :
- A Mobiliser constamment les organisations de la société civile pour influencer positivement les politiques étatiques en faveur des intérêts socio-économiques des communautés de base.
- A Renforcer les capacités des OSC à assurer le suivi des politiques et le contrôle de l’action publique
- A Contribuer à la participation active des organisations de la société civile congolaise au développement social, économique et politique de la République Démocratique du Congo.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Disaster relief Displacement Financing and housing Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban planning Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: La Coalition Nationale pour l’Habitat a pour mission de protéger le droit à un logement adéquat à travers des campagnes, l’activisme national et international, le développement communautaire et l'établissement des faits. Ces campagnes sont axées sur la lutte pour les droits à la propriété foncière et au logement, et sur la corrélation entre cette lutte et les activités des entreprises et la société elle-même.
Mission: L’ONG-CDR vise les objectifs généraux ci-après :
Participer activement à la lutte contre la pauvreté,
Faciliter l’accès aux logements sociaux et à l’habitat aux couches sociales les plus défavorisées
Améliorer les conditions de vie des communautés de base par la mise en valeur rationnelle des potentialités de la zone d’intervention,
Lutter activement et efficacement contre toutes les formes de dégradation de l’environnement à savoir la désertification, les pollutions et nuisances, l’insalubrité,
Mission: Traitement des dechets solides et liquides, construction des ouvrages, d’assainissement, sensibilisation de la population autour de l’hygiène, publique, nettoyage des voies publique, curage des canniveaux,reboisement, confection des dallaux de traversées etc...
Mission: - Améliorer la situation socio-économique des femmes
- Développer et valoriser la production alimentaire
- Améliorer la qualité de vie par l'hygène, la santé, l'éducation, l'alphabetisation.
- Organisation des activités de sensibilisations, de communication, d'information et d'éducation.
- Elaborer des Projects Plaidoyer Formation des Femmes Jeunes
- Faire des transformations des céréales des fruits et légumes
- Commerces et petites épargnes
Mission: Depuis 1983, le RUP d'Enda Tiers Monde :
agit sur le terrain pour et avec les habitants (villageois et citadins) et les décideurs
anime et participe à plusieurs réseaux et programmes d’échange d’expériences et de réflexion au niveau international
diffuse deux revues trimestrielles (l’une en français, l’autre en anglais) et réalise des publications pour diffuser les résultats de la recherche-action qu’il mène.
Axes de travail (domaines d'intervention) :
En développant des outils méthodologiques et des innovations technologiques, le RUP tente de contribuer à une meilleure gestion des villes et villages, pour une amélioration des conditions de vie des populations défavorisées. Son action s’articule autour de cinq axes principaux :
Développement d'outils pour un aménagement concerté des villes et villages.
Appui :
a) à la production sociale de biens et services de base en milieu urbain et périurbain défavorisé.
b) au développement d’un micro entreprenariat local lié à la gestion intégrée de l’environnement.
Renforcement des capacités des acteurs de la ville (acteurs populaires et autorités locales) : éducation et formation.
Promotion d'une planification plus concertée des villes, dans le cadre d'un effort commun de gestion urbaine (Agendas 21 locaux).
Animation de réseaux de réflexion, d’échanges et de collecte/diffusion de l'information.
Mission: Femmes côte d’ivoire est une organisation non gouvernementale(ONG) à but non lucratif travaillant pour la consolidation du bien être de la femme, de la famille et de l’enfant.Elle travaille essentiellement en milieu rual au bien être de la population à la base.Elle travaille dans differents domaines dont la priorité est axée sur l’education à la culture de paix, l la formation, la sante sociale par la promotion de l’habitat amelioré aux services des plus demunis et des femmes des marchés,La la sansibilisation sur le VIH/SIDA , l’eau et les femmes en milieu rural par la valorisation des valeurs culturelles locales.L’approvisionnement en eau potable par la construction des cintures de secirités autour des marigots.Assistance humanitaireSensibilisation à la reconciliation nationale et à la cohabitation pacifique
Basic services
Disaster relief Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence
Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Provide a sustainable and better future for women and girls: an educated girl, an empowered woman and a balanced family.provide education to children in need.FAPEFE is a non-governmental, not for profit organization, working in Cameroon with Reg. No: 00330/RDA/JO6/BAPP . Since its inception in may 2001, the organization has been working with children/youths, parents, government bodies and intergovernmental bodies in the promotion of community welfare and youth education. It works to identify the needs of the child especially the rural child/youths, the underprivileged and the weaker section of the society through participatory approach.
Objectives :
Produce quality education for needy women , children and girls
Reduce the high illetteracy and under-education rate
Promote the economic, social and cultural development of youth
Promote environmental and agricultural education
Give basic professionnal, technical and classical education to underpriviledged young people
Protect and make known the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child through education
Assist the needy child irrespective of tribe, origin, sex or religion, in the domain of social welfare
Protect the child from sexual exploitation, child labour and forced child marriage
Assist children in prisons, orphanages, centers for the disabled and street children
Organize youth leadership training and youth exchange programs
Actively take part in the prevention of HIV/AIDS,Cholera and MAlaria especially in children/youths and women
Assist the government educational efforts and work with others organisations and associations following the same objectives.
FAPEFE’s Mission :
Offer and promote inclusive and integral quality education to the benefit of the disadvanteged and vulnerable children,women,orphans and disabled in low incomes areas as well as their social welfare.
Mission: mon organisation a pour mission de faciliter l'octroi de credit pour le financement de l'habitat.
S'occupe des investissement pour l' amenagement urbain des localités urbaines et aussi des programmes de developpement des communes.
Mission: MISSION ET OBJECTIF DU GIE SANIYA
LA mission principale du gie saniya est l assainissement du quartier de magnambougou
objectifs
1- organiser le ramassage quotidien des ordures menagere dans les 4000 concessions du quartier
2- assurer le transport des des dechets au depots de transit
3 -organiser les seances de sensibilisation sur l hygiene dans les familles
4 - realiser les puisards dans les concessions
5 - curer les caniveaux pour le passage regulier des eaux de ruissellement
6 - formation des associations de femmes et de jeunes a l hgiene
Mission: La lutte contre la pauvrete d une maniere generale pour l'amelioration des conditions des populations demunies et en particulier le deguerpissement pour offrir a celles ci un habitat durable et descent.
Basic services Climate change
Disaster relief Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence
Sewage / solid waste management
Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's access to habitat resources
Formation Agropastorale et insertion Professionnelle des jeunes
Mission: DCAM œuvre dans une vision de développement durable à travers : la défense des droits de la personne humaine et de l’environnement, la recherche et le développement, l’assainissement et la protection de l’environnement, l’information, l’éducation et la communication. A travers la mise en œuvre des programmes et projets aussi bien dans les milieux urbains, péri-urbains que ruraux, DCAM a développé des compétences avérées dans les domaines d’Appui conseil aux communes (décentralisation et gouvernance locale, eau, hygiène et assainissement, gestion des déchets), de Réalisation de plan de développement communal (PDC), d’appui à leur mise en œuvre et à leur évaluation, de Réalisation de plan de gestion des déchets (PGD), d’Elaboration de plan d’hygiène et d’assainissement communal (PHAC), de Réalisation des Etudes d’impact Environnemental et Social (EIES), de Formation agropastorale et l’Insertion socioprofessionnelle des jeunes. Nos cible potentielles sont : la population en général, les ménages pauvres, les groupements de femmes, les associations ou comités de développement, les jeunes démunis, … . Nous avons développés des partenariats techniques avec EED, WASTE, Alliance WASH-Bénin, la DHAB, le MEHU, le MS, le MDGLAAT, l’EAA (Ex-CREPA), PROTOS, BUPDOS, HELVETAS, … .
Mission: Asian Bridge's mission is to produce and share a people-centered development model that incorporates different values of various regional communities, and thus to create a better society for the oppressed, poor, and marginalized people regardless of their nationalities.
Mission: Linking groups in the region. Generate horizontal learning, sharing among groups in region. Mobilize actions, interventions to change process and alternatives process in country in region. Advocating, dealing with international organizations. Dissemanation, publications, viseo, mass-media.
Mission: AWDC Mission Statement is advancement of women and children, improving their status and participation in the development processes through education, Human Rights study and implementation, poverty eradication, conflict resolution and peacemaking.
AWDC strategy is based on researches and surveys, working out and implementation of the programmes on improvement of the status of women and children, Refugees and IDPs, elderly people in transition period, aggravated by war, combating poverty and violence.
The capacities of the AWDC Divisions, woman, youth and children’s groups in different cities and rural districts were mobilized for planning and implementation of such kind of programs on Education, Health, Income Generation, Human Rights, peacemaking and other programs.
Mission: Working throughout India among the urban and rural poor and mostly at the grass root level. Our aim is to mobilise the communities, make them aware of the problems both locally, regionally and nationally and trained them to deal with the situation.
We are working with the urban poor in the major cities in India like; Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mysore, Bhubaneswar & Guwahati. Programme thrust on organising the urban poor community, built-up CBO’s, stop eviction, security of land tennor, basic amenities and housing rights are common issues. Constructing housing through CBO’s, Co-operatives in limited areas. Secure land tennor is a major issue next to eviction.
Mission: -Research on housing and community
-Consultation and advisory role on housing and community development
-Education and training programs for housing and community managers and residents
-Survey and data collection about housing management and community development
Mission: 1) LOCOA is the only Asia wide network that specializes in community organization (CO). It is the only network that provides the training, exchanges of persons, information, etc., that COs in the field need. It also protects them and their work by bringing publicity to bear on happenings in countries.
2) All of LOCOA’s work is human rights. We work for poor people’s housing rights (including water, drainage, sanitation, income improvement and peoples right to organize). We alert our network when these rights are abused and mobilize response to governments at fault.
3) We cooperate with all types of networks. We share tasks with them. We cooperate with them as long as they work for the good of the poor.
4) When there is need to relate to foreign governments about human rights violations, we send an appeal throughout our network by e-mail asking our members to write to the government concerned, or the funder concerned (Asian Development Bank, for example) and express their concern.
5) LOCOA asks local members what they need and tries to do that. It does not have a program of action into which members must fit.
Currently LOCOA has more than 100 member organizations in 17 countries in Asia.
Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UN system Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration
Countries:
Mission: The name “Nagorik Uddyog” (“The Citizen’s Initiative”) epitomizes the organization’s fundamental goal as well as the strategies and activities it utilizes to achieve this goal. NU envisions a Bangladesh without poverty where socially and environmentally conscious citizens have the ability to achieve their full potential as human beings irrespective of gender or social status. Mission of NU is to work to
•Strengthen process of establishing justice and concept of equality through Human Rights Education, mediation and legal aid irrespective of gender and social status.
•conduct awareness program to popularize concept of Human Rights and Women Rights and bring it to regular practice in the community
•Work for strengthening women leadership at grassroots level.
•Work with the informal sector workers and marginalized and create social movement to realize their rights.
•Popularize perception of Human Rights among Dalit and Excluded community and to help build capacity in order to create their own organizations to raise voice effectively.
•Work for formulation and amendment of laws/ policy in order to promote and protect Human Rights.
•Conduct fact findings/investigations of Human Rights violation and create social actions against it.
•Work for ensuring governance and accountability in government and non-government sector, take initiative against corruption and access citizen’s right to information.
•Work for environment degradation and adverse impact of climate change and to create awareness on linkages to Human Rights, environment and climate change.
•Conduct research on various aspects of Bangladeshi society, its economy, human rights situation, and polity.
Mission: Encouraging and strengthening community initiatives (with social, technical guidance and credit for micro enterprise) and evolving partnerships with govt. for development based on local resource.
The methodology is action research and extension. That is analyzing, outstanding problems of the area, peoples initiatives, the bottlenecks in the initiatives, then thru a process of action research and extension education evolve viable solutions promoting participatory action. In short developing low cost package of advice and guiding community organization for self help and partnership with govt.
Mission: To create partnerships for ESC rights of marginalised groups. The two groups identified for the next three years are women for housing and land rights and right to dignity for the mentally ill.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Gender-based violence Housing and land rights
Water and sanitation Women and inheritance rights Women's habitat rights
Mission: Vision:
SDTS’s vision is “a society with prosperity and secure life”.
Mission:
Striving for a prosperous and secure society for the protection of human rights and environment through advocacy, research and development.
Climate change
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: SHELTER FOR THE POOR is a Non-Government Organization - (NGO), working in Dhaka, Bangladesh, established in the year 2002, which is working in the field of Human Rights, especially for the Housing rights & other citizen rights of the urban and rural poor. In Dhaka city there are 3.5 million urban poor / slum dwellers are dwelling now. According to a World Bank estimate, "From a base of 24 million in 1996, the urban population is expected to be 31 million in the year 2000 about 52 million by 2010 and nearly 79 million in 2020.” These projections are based on an assumption of an average annual growth rate of 6.4 per cent up to 2000, 5.3 per cent between 2000-2010, and 4.3 per cent thereafter.
LEGAL STATUS OF SHELTER:
Registered from the office of the Register of joint stock companies & firms, under societies act(no-XXI-1860), No: S-3310(99)/2003.
Vision of SHELTER : A sound urban society towards development, empowerment and secured shelter for the urban poor.
Mission of SHELTER : SHELTER aims to improve the situation of social security & justice, democracy, good governance,transperancy and human
rights isssues ; especially the Housing rights of the urban poor.
WHAT WE DO:
POLICY ADVOCACY & LOBBYING:
The main task of SHELTER to undertake advocacy, lobbying and media campaign on all the human rights issues ; mainly to address whole rights issues related to the urban poor. Also,to advocate on the issues related to democracy, goodgovernance, transperancy , justice & social security.
PEOPLES ORGANIZATION & FEDERATION:
Organizing the slum dwellers as small groups / peoples organizations towards social mobilization for their resettlement and to form the Federation of the Slum Dwellers . Federation of slum dwellers will be the main negotiator to establish the right to shelter of the urban poor / slum dwellers.
EVICTION WACH & LEGAL AID SUPPRT:
·To wach how,where & when the slum eviction(s) are started by the authority without any resettlement plan ; whether the slum dwellers are properly noticed for it and organize mass people to protest against any slum eviction(s).
·To prepare report(s) on slum eviction and share information with all national and international human rights organizations and
activists. Provide legal aid support to the slum dwellers/urban poor
people as needed by them
INFORMATION BANK:
To develop & maintain a computerized database information system on any violation of human rights, slum eviction(s),grass root level people’s organizations, slum dwellers federation, NGOs/CBOs working with the urban poor and related national/international human rights organizations/activities & activists. And will develop a reference library for researchers/activists.
COALITION/ALLIANCE BUILDING:
There are hundreds of “Grass Root Level NGOs/CBOs” are working in the mega city Dhaka. These huge numbers of small NGOs / CBOs are not “Organized”, they are not presently member of ADAB or CUP; No alliance/ forum / coalition / platform exists to coordinate them. But they are very much committed to establish Democracy, Social Security & Justice, Good Governance, transparency, Human Rights, especially Rights of the urban poor. Shelter has under taken a project to “Organize” the small NGOs/CBOs under a same umbrella and planned to form an alliance, namely, “URBAN NGOs and CBOs ALLIANCE of Dhaka-UNCAD”. The UNCAD will engaged to organize the small NGOs / CBOs to address all social crisis / any violation of human rights and other issues, related to / with the urban poor people.
WE FIGHT…
FOR…
HOUSING
RIGHTS….
Shelter will also maintain close liaison & necessary working relationship with all other NGOs, associations / forum’s of NGOs working in and out side of Bangladesh.
RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION:
To undertake research / studies on various human rights issues ; especially related to the rights of the urban poor, publish and share the outcomes of those research / study with the policymakers, civil society, planners, donors ,international community and human rights activists / all other related stakeholders through workshops /seminars and will undertake necessary media / advocacy campaign.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE SHARING:
To collect reports on human rights issues and all related publications, reports, studies, posters, documentary films on international resettlement experiences, exposure visit to the international resettlement sites, participate related national / international training / workshops / seminars and share all those good experiences locally; especially with the policymakers, donors, planners, other interested NGOs / CBOs, and of course with the urban poor of Bangladesh, especially of the Dhaka city.
SUPPORT SERVICES PROGRAM:
Mainly to ensure the utility services i.e. drinking water supply, environmental sanitation, gas, electricity, garbage management support, relief support at the post disaster period, HIV-AIDS health-immunization, education, etc. to the urban poor people directly from Shelter or in-directly through liaison-coordination with other NGOs /organization(s)/ donors / government.
CAPACITY BUILDING:
To build leadership capacity of the representatives of the urban poor Shelter will arrange various types of training program for them; will also organize issue based training workshop’s / seminar’s / exposure visit to other federation(s) of the grass root people’s organizations within / out side of the country.
CONTACT PERSON:
Abu Rayhan-Al-Beeroonee
Chairperson & CEO
Phone: Office- 88-0171-5259048 (Mobile)
880-2-8652033 (Residence)
Mission: Educate people on their housing rights. Help people resist evictions. Organise poor areas to get local tenure and basic services. Have weekly radio program on urban poor matters and do research and publications.
Mission: Works woth the urban marginal groupst to develop strong people's org. capable of fighting for their rights to live a dignified and humane life in the city, to secure land entitlement and to have a healthy home and environment. The UPC groups works on the development of critical awarenes of the people through conscientization and development of critical awareness, coupled with organizing by means of economic, health and educational activities.
Mission: YUVA - a voluntary development organization founded in 1984 - represents the conviction that every individual is entitled to live in security, dignity and peace. Our existence is rooted in our commitment to promote a democratic society, and enable marginalized groups to access human rights.
Since inception, YUVA has consciously chosen to implement its developmental agenda by engaging with local, community based organizations. This has involved strengthening existing organizations to understand and respond effectively to the local development issues, and encouraging new formations - such as community action groups, groups of women, youth and children - to engage in development.
YUVA’s direct operations are based in three states of India, namely Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Our work in these areas can be broadly categorized into the themes of Poverty, Environment and Governance. Our work includes action taken to enable the poor and socially disadvantaged to access housing and basic services; to manage natural resources; to enhance their livelihood and social security; to protect themselves against violence and discrimination, and to participate as effectively in decision making.
In addition to our direct intervention programs, we actively contribute to research, policy development and networking initiatives at the state, national and global levels.
Mission: Objetivos de ASDE
Apoyar, fortalecer y promover iniciativas de:
Mejoramiento de las condiciones del Habitat con particular énfasis respecto al acceso al suelo y vivienda, el agua el saneamiento y el manejo de desechos.
Mejoramiento de la calidad y control del medio ambiente, y fortalecimiento de programas de control medio ambiental.
ASDE Objectives
To support, strengthen and promote initiatives on:
Improvement of habitat conditions with emphasis on land access and housing, water and sanitation, and waste treatment.
Management of strategic environmental assessment procesess.
Fostering sustainable rural integrated development.
Mission: to bridge the gap between theory and practice of eco-engineering
- in meeting urban and natural environment
- with emphasis on water, air, material and space
Mission: Arcilla Research, Epen, The Netherlands- is a small, Dutch-based, tecnology enterprise, Which has developed a special body of techniques and materials based on a mineral binder sistem, Whereby products with ceramic -like properties are cured rather than fired. The mineral binder sistem and range of new materials are neither cemens nor ceramic, yet offer many of the advantages of both. A New binder sistem has been developed for use with man-made and natural fibres to create water-repellent products
Three units have been set up by Arcilla Research to develop its family of new materials into useful products:
ARCILLA Ceramic Tecnology has centred on utilisation of secondary resources susch as coal fly ash to create products for building and construction.
PYRAMIC Advance Ceramic Materials is translating the tecnology of Arcilla Research into high-performance materials and products.
RUBACON Resource Utilisation for Building and Construction - aims to create building and construction systems in tune with the needs of people and the environment.
The new RUBACON Programme of Sustainable Development- Based on Utilisation of secondary and renewale resorces - includes a group of. Interrelated projects with the Key projec, advance building materials and construction system, at the core. The materials are lightweight - gender-sensitive; the may be produced and assembled by women and older children. The construction system is deseigned for stability-providing extremely high resistance to storm and earthquake.
The RENEW project for developing Biogas (alternative energy), natural fertilizer and micro-mineral powder from agricultural residues and animal dung, is one of the major arcillary projects. Other projects making up the programme include: a solar energy water harvesting system for providing people with both hot and cold water, a process for utilisation of ceramic waste to produce surface-glazed ceramic tiles sans kiln, durable sewer, water and irrigation pipe, low-cost road construction and tecnology for cleansing of polluted land and waterways.
Transfer of the arcilla tecnology as described in the implementation Plan, is unique and direct. It is aimed firts and foremost at the needs of the people, particularly the less well-off.
To implement our tecnology, we are open to co-operation with industry, university, goverment and non-govermment institutions. During its twenty five year existance, Arcilla has gathered together an international, multidiscipline team of regional and specialist consultants to provide technical know-how and project management skills for realising the potencial of. Its tecnology- ceramic without firing
Climate change Destruction of housing
Financing and housing Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Women and forced eviction Women's habitat rights
Mission: La misión de Arquitectos Sin Fronteras España es promover el desarrollo humano equitativo y sostenible, a través de la mejora de la habitabilidad y la defensa del derecho de las personas a tener un hábitat digno. Desde ASFES construimos derechos, por eso nuestros proyectos apoyan la educación, la salud, el saneamiento, las infraestructuras y la vivienda, realizando actuaciones en zonas rurales de África y América Latina, utilizando materiales y tecnologías locales y de bajo coste.
Trabajamos para la gente y con la gente, promoviendo la acción participativa y democrática de las comunidades beneficiarias y con perspectiva de género en todos los proyectos. Para este fin, establecemos vínculos con entidades locales, formamos in situ a los trabajadores, sin constructoras intermediarias, para que la propia población lleve a cabo los proyectos, facilitando la sostenibilidad del mismo a largo plazo.
Somos una organización formada por un equipo de voluntarios y técnicos comprometidos con los valores de la cooperación, que desempeñamos nuestro trabajo con responsabilidad, profesionalidad y calidad, trabajando también en el ámbito local, atendiendo problemas de habitabilidad en gran parte de la geografía española y llevando a cabo campañas de sensibilización y denuncia.
Mission: Habitat et Participation est une association sans but lucratif créé en 1982 qui a pour objet social de promouvoir la participation en matière d'habitat.
Concrètement, Habitat et Participation développe 3 pôles d'action :
--- Promouvoir la PARTICIPATION CITOYENNE comme enjeu démocratique ;
--- Favoriser la SOLIDARITE ET RESPONSABILITE en matière d'habitat (collectif) ;
--- Défendre un DROIT A L'HABITAT décent, digne et durable pour tous.
Pour ce faire, nous réalisons des animations, formations, visites d'expériences, échanges d'expériences, conseils, conférences, ateliers interactifs, recherches, etc.
> Nous sommes Pôle ressources de l'Habitat Groupé depuis 2005 en région wallonne (et bruxelloise) ;
> Nous soutenons les initiatives et les réflexions en matière d'habitat "alternatif" (auto-construction, auto-promotion, etc.) ;
> Nous menons des processus participatifs dans le cadre d'Agenda 21 locaux ;
> Nous faisons évoluer les réflexions et les pratiques de l'accompagnement social en matière de logement ;
> Nous accompagnons des groupes de citoyens vers des quartiers en transition ;
> Nous sommes impliqués dans des réseaux nationaux et internationaux pour le droit à l'habitat et la lutte contre l'exclusion sociale.
Nous sommes reconnus comme organisme d'éducation permanente et Association de Promotion du Logement.
Mission: AL-GEA es una organización de naturaleza asociativa y sin ánimo de lucro, creada para la difusión y protección del patrimonio, el urbanismo, la defensa de la vivienda protegida, la ordenación del territorio y la arquitectura, especialmente la bioclimática, enfocado globalmente bajo una perspectiva de sostenibilidad económica, social y medioambiental. El ámbito de actuación de la Asociación AL-GEA es la Provincia de Sevilla, y por extensión, la Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía
A tal efecto, nuestros objetivos estatuarios promueven la realización o participación en actividades encaminadas a potenciar, promocionar y defender los valores de la difusión didáctica y la investigación de la sostenibilidad en arquitectura, urbanismo, patrimonio, medio ambiente y vivienda protegida.
Working Themes:
Architecture
Disaster relief Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Historical heritage sites
Urban planning Women and armed/ethnic conflict salud,arte y derechos humanos
Mission: La organización tiene como objetivo ayudar a resistir al Pueblo Saharaui hasta la celebración del REFERENDUM DE AUTODETERMINACIÓN.Para ello realizamos proyectos de ayuda humanitaria y cooperación al desarrollo en varias áreas, como salud, vivienda, educación, etc.
Mission: Established in 1976, the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) is an independent research organisation that works internationally to identify innovative housing solutions and to foster the exchange of information and good practice. The objectives of BSHF include: - Identifying housing innovation and good practice that fosters a more socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable world. - Promoting awareness of sustainable housing issues and encouraging the adoption of relevant policies and practice. - Facilitating progressive thinking on themes related to the development, construction or management of housing worldwide.
Mission: DESWOS was founded with the stautory duty to contribute to the elimination of the lack of housing for the poorest population groups in the Third World by means of assistance in self-help.
Mission: DWF works to develop local capacities to resolve human settlement problems, with a specific focus on difficulties rlated to socio-economic, environmental and climate change (natural disasters). We have over 30 years experince of helping local communities develop and imprve shte way they manage their built environment. Paricular focus is on West Africa and South East Asia, but experience is much wider
Mission: Fédérer les habitants des quartiers du Grand Belleville, à Paris, situé sur quatre arrondissements de Paris : 20 ème , 19 ème , 11ième et 10 ème autour de la lutte pour le droit à la ville, pour toutes et tous.
Produire une analyse et une réflexion sur les processus de spéculation immobilière et foncière en œuvre dans ce quartier et les conséquences sur les
habitants.
Mener des actions pour dénoncer le processus de gentrification et de refoulement
des habitants les plus pauvres, précaires, des migrants en dehors de ces quartiers.
Faire le lien avec d’autres mouvements similaires et travailler en coordination
avec eux, tant à l’échelle parisienne que régionale, nationale et avec des liens
forts à l’international afin de démontrer les causes structurelles de ces processus.
Mission: Cooperar en la consecución de una sociedad internacional justa, que se desarrolle sin excluir a nadie, construyendo y poniendo en práctica los derechos humanos fundamentales, económicos, sociales y culturales, individuales y colectivos en cualquier parte del mundo.
Atendidas nuestras capacidades, aquellos derechos y los procesos más directamente relacionados con la provisión de servicios básicos y la gestión de los recursos y el territorio, tienen una especial atención dentro esta misión.
Mission: Housing rehabilitation in France and abroad. Local org. submit their projects and we gsive them funds if it fits our aims. We also welcome the homeless in our centres that are open during the day.
Basic services
Financing and housing Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban agriculture Urban planning Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Habitat en Mouvement est un projet qui consiste à rencontrer, décrire et diffuser des initiatives locales, organisations et des politiques publiques qui promeuvent l'accès à l'habitat, l'autogestion et le droit à la ville. La première phase du projet est un travail de terrain de rencontres avec les acteurs de production sociale du logement et les initiatives alternatives d'écocontruction ("ecoaldeas") dans les pays d'Amérique du Sud. La seconde phase consistera à diffuser en France (via un livre et des expositions) les apprentissages reçus, afin d'alimenter les débats sur des alternatives solidaires et durables pour la constructions des villes.
Climate change
Displacement Dispossession Forced eviction Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN system Urban planning Water and sanitation Adverse possession, energy, commons, cultural heritage, demographic manipulation, gender, globalizat
Street vendors
Coordination, local governance,
Mission: Our aim is to lift contemporary urban challenges to a higher level of awareness and increased political focus. Habitat Norway therefore strives to be a central actor and platform for promoting and sharing up to date information about international urban tendencies, as well as share good examples of initiatives that target urban challenges and promote sustainable and environmentally good solutions.
Mission: HDM undertakes research and training in housing from an international perspective: planning, creation, use and management, and the connection between a home and its surroundings from neighbourhood to city level. The goal is to increase knowledge about how to improve the processes leading to goog housing and sustainable development, esp. for the poor.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
Urban planning Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women, urbanization and migration
Mission: IHS is an international centre of excellence associated with the Erasmus University Rotterdam and operating on a global scale that offers specialized post graduate education, training, advisory services and applied research in the fields of urban management, housing and urban environment with the mission to develop human and institutional capacities to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life in cities.
Mission: The group aims to eradicate poverty in developing countries through the development of influencing others. ITDG works in 8 technology programmes on food security, food processing, manufacturing, shelter, energy, transport, mining and disasters. Also works on the small scale production of building materials, on shelter construction usually with community groups or building artisans.
Mission: Bring people, academics and activists together that share a critical view on urban development in the cities of the world or are involved in the development or in projects that offer an alternative to worldwide developments such as housing, working and living cooperatives. Share experiences and publish them.
The basic purpose of INURA is to develop and promote the interaction of social and evironmnetal urban movements with research and theoretical analysis. INURA brings together theorists and practitiones sharing a common, critical attitude towards contemporary urban development.
Our main means are local action, research and publications, conferences.
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence Housing and land rights
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: 1 - uniting the efforts and the ranks of organizations with similar objectives and competencies , to achieve their goals by peaceful and democratic means . 2 - Work on the implementation and support of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations . 3 - the dissemination of culture diplomatic means available and with the support of the authorities having jurisdiction . 4 - spreading the culture of international law and international arbitration in the Middle East backing of the bodies and institutions having jurisdiction . 5 - Support programs for human rights and a culture of peace in all parts of the ground and stand with the legal and humanitarian any violation of human rights in all countries of the world enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 6 - spreading the culture of international criminal law and the Rome Statute that it has the International Criminal Court and the support of the International Criminal Court and international courts and legal and human rights bodies to support their path to achieve justice . 7 - Work on cultural exchange and dialogue between religions and human and social dialogue between the two countries . 8 - supporting the youth and to stand by them in all their cultural and humanitarian activities , education and their mission to spread peace and law in their communities . 9 - support the march of women and children and spreading the culture of the Universal Declaration of the rights of women and children 10 - the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals / eradication of poverty and hunger, achieving universal education and the promotion of equality between women and men 11 - the pursuit of economic integration and human development countries 12 - seek to resolve armed conflicts 13 - Sustainable development and industrial Health , Altfallat and capacity - building and education 14 - Social Development in conflicts , poverty and indigenous peoples ' issues 15 - The Quest for the deployment of the issues of equality and the advancement and development of women and to stand by its side 16 - the pursuit of economic and social work of the children's programs and programs of the United Nations reform and sustainable social development.
Destruction of housing
Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Housing crisis
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and forced eviction Women's habitat rights
Ejecuciones hipotecarias, Desalojos por motivos económicos
Mission: xEl Observatori DESC se constituyó con motivo del 50º aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos. Es una entidad formada por organizaciones y personas que tiene como finalidad promover la justicia social a través de una visión integral de los derechos humanos, y en concreto los derechos sociales.
La interdependencia entre el desarrollo humano, la democracia y los derechos humanos nos obliga a mirar más allá del reconocimiento de los derechos civiles y políticos.
Consideramos que una de las principales causas generadoras de pobreza, exclusión y conflicto social es el incumplimiento de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales.
Nuestro objetivo principal es movilizar y capacitar a las comunidades víctimas de violaciones de los DESC para que puedan llevar a cabo un rol activo en aquellas decisiones que afecten su bienestar y disfrute de los derechos sociales fundamentales (educación, salud, vivienda, trabajo y alimentación).
En esta lucha hacia la exigibilidad de los DESC podemos encontrar un camino para llegar a una ciudadanía donde no quepan ni discriminaciones ni exclusiones.
Durante los últimos años el Observatori ha dedicado un especial esfuerzo a promover el derecho a la vivienda y a la ciudad. Concretamente, ha desarrollado un trabajo de lucha contra los desalojos por motivos económicos.
Mission: RHF includes over 40 regional unions of residential estate owners and arendators (REOAs). We represent their interests with different institutions at different levels. We work at national, regional and local levels to inform decision-makers about the needs and problems of REOAs. We formulate amendments if policies towards REOAs seem to be inadequate. We also provide assistance to REOAs when they need advice on fighting for their legal rights.We work closely with State Duma (Parliament) of the Russian Federation, with Government of Russia, with Administraton of the President, with various regional legislative and executive authorities, with organisations providing housing and utulities services.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster relief Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: SEDHURO mission is to contribute and foster the ideals of human rights, democracy, good governance and community sustainable peace and livelihoods within Somali communities.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN system Urban planning Women, urbanization and migration Women's habitat rights
Mission: We believe in a just world in which men and women are equally able to choose, plan and manage their own lives and communities, and to influence local, national and global development in ways that are economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.
Our mission is to build the capacity of professionals and institutions to design and implement innovative, sustainable and inclusive strategies at the local, national and global levels, that enable those people who are generally excluded from decision-making by poverty or their social and cultural identity, to play a full and rewarding role in their own development.
Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
Water and sanitation Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Countries:
Mission: Associations of professionals and students with interest in spatial development in the South. Regular organisation of conferences and publication of journal TRIALOG
Mission: Initiative taken by a vast level committee of social housing that fight for the improvement of their city quarters and for a reduction in the level of social rent. It utilises its own newspaper, which is vastly distributed, in order to co-ordinate its activities.
Mission: urbaMonde is a swiss NGO commited to help vulnerable population of cities and regions of the global south in the field of urban and regional planning. In this perspective, urbaMonde aims:
- to build capacity of local actors in the management and development of their territory;
- to promote urban and regional planning issues in international development strategies and policies;
- to support a balanced, sustainable and inclusive territorial development.
Mission: We are a neighbourhood association working to improsve the quality of life in our part of Paris. We try to facilitate the participation of the inhabitants in the urban planning of the city concerning housing, open public spaces and parks, transportation and urban renewal. Regularly we organise neighbourhood festivals, open-air cinema and picnics. O)ne branch of Ude has created a boarding house for low income people unable to find housing in public housing.
Basic services Climate change
Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's habitat rights
Mission: Es contribuir al desarrollo del Cono Norte de Lima Metropolitana, potenciando la capacitación e iniciativa de su población para enfrentar sus problemas y satisfacer sus necesidades, promoviendo su participación organizada en el desarrollo de alternativas de solución, a travez de propuestas innovadores en aspectos económicos, sociales políticos y culturales.
Mission: Construimos nuestro accionar desde una perspectiva de trabajo complejo, articulador y generador de condiciones para el ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía y la profundización de la democracia.
Mission: Madre Tierra trabaja en los temas inherentes al hábitat popular urbano. Todos los proyectos que se desarrollan (en regularización dominial, equipamiento comunitario, infraestructura barrial, planes de Lotes con Servicios, mejoramiento de vivienda) buscan promover la capacidad organizativa de los grupos y comunidades, favoreciendo su protagonismo.Con el objeto de apoyar el crecimiento de las organizaciones de base y su capacidad de generar propuestas tendientes a resolver sus problemas, desde Madre Tierra se desarrollan actividades de capacitación y comunicación popular. Se busca además fortalecerla articulación y la formación de redes para incrementar su capacidad política y de gestión.
Fortalecer, generar, activar, recuperar lo “organizativo – solidario”. - Desarrollar acciones de mejoramiento del hábitat. - Recuperar el protagonismo popular en las decisiones y en la política.
Mission: La Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia (ACIJ) es una organización apartidaria, sin fines de lucro dedicada a la defensa de los derechos de los grupos más desfavorecidos de la sociedad y el fortalecimiento de la democracia en Argentina.
Fundada en 2002, ACIJ tiene por objetivos defender la efectiva vigencia de la Constitución Nacional y los principios del estado de derecho, promover el cumplimiento de las leyes que protegen a los grupos desaventajados y la erradicación de toda práctica discriminatoria, así como también contribuir al desarrollo de prácticas participativas y deliberativas de la democracia.
Nuestra misión es contribuir al fortalecimiento de las instituciones democráticas, promover el respeto por los derechos fundamentales y trabajar para la defensa de los grupos más vulnerables de la sociedad.
A través de su Área de Derecho a la Ciudad, ACIJ se propone impulsar el derecho colectivo de los habitantes, en especial de los grupos empobrecidos, vulnerables y desfavorecidos, a un acceso equitativo a las ciudades dentro de los principios de sustentabilidad y justicia social, fortaleciendo las acciones y organizaciones territoriales que tengan como objetivo alcanzar el pleno ejercicio del derecho a un patrón de vida urbana adecuado (Carta Mundial de Derecho a la Ciudad).
Mission: Misión
Contribuir a la construcción de un hábitat sustentable mediante el desarrollo de conocimiento y promoción de acciones a favor de los sectores populares a nivel local, nacional y regional.
Objetivos estratégicos
Desarrollar conocimientos y tecnologías innovadoras vinculadas al hábitat sustentable, apropiadas y apropiables por los sectores populares.
Promover acciones directas e indirectas, en articulación con otros actores sociales, que contribuyan a mejorar el hábitat y fortalecer el desarrollo local.
Generar contribuciones e incidir en la definición de políticas socio-habitacionales y científico-tecnológicas tendientes a garantizar el derecho al hábitat.
Mission: MEJORHA (Asociación para el Mejoramiento Habitacional de Guatemala), is a national NGO, created in December 2002. Our overall goal is to contribute to the improvement of housing conditions for low-income households in Guatemala by improving the competence of the different actors involved in the housing sector ( at central and local government level, NGO, academia and private sector); promoting a dialogue within sectors, advocacy in public policies, research and consultancies.
Mission: Fines: a) Ser una asociación sin fines de lucro y de beneficio social, b) Velar y fortalecer el Estado de derecho, la transparencia y la democracia, c) Fomentar y respetar el medio ambiente, d) Fortalecer y promover la participación de hombres y mujeres en el proceso de desarrollo del país, e) Fomentar y respetar la interculturalidad, como criterio básico para el desarrollo integral.
Nuestros objetivos específicos son: a) Desarrollar de acuerdo a su naturaleza consultorías y asesorías a instituciones nacionales e internacionales, b) Gestión y ejecución de proyectos de formación y capacitación, infraestructura básica, productivos, económicos, salud, educación, género, desastres, derechos humanos, niñez y juventud, y otros, c) Participación en procesos de investigación y documentación en temas relacionados al desarrollo del país.
Mission: “Caritas Chosica promueve la formación integral de todos los involucrados, especialmente de las poblaciones vulnerables; desarrollando las capacidades, reforzando las actitudes y fortaleciendo las habilidades; orientada al cambio social sostenible.
Teniendo a Jesucristo como guía, que nos da fuerza en nuestro quehacer profesional, nuestros valores, el ideal de servicio, nuestra fe y el trabajo solidario”
Mission: Contribuir en la realización del Derecho Humano a una Vivienda Adecuada a través de acciones técnicas y educativas, que coadyuven en la adopción de políticas y programas públicos, preferentemente en Producción Social de Vivienda para la población de escasos recursos.
Mission: Formacón de recursos humanos investigadores, profesionales y técnicos en la problemática de la planificación urbana y regional en general y en políticas públicas en particular
Mission: Coayudar en la promoción del desarrollo sustentable, entendido como el proceso tendiente a una mejora de la calidad de vida de cada uno y todos los seres, a través del apoyo de iniciativas cooperativas o asociativas que resulten viables, solidarias, replicables y articuladoras en orden al cometido principal.
Esto no sólo implica la respuesta organizativa sino la preocupación permanente por la búsqueda de alternativas, pudiéndose inclusive llegar a la formulación de propuestas de políticas públicas.
Mission: a. Los cursillos de capacitación social
b. Los cursillos de promoción social a nivel urbano y rural dirigido a estudiantes, mujeres, jóvenes, profesionales, empresarios, campesinos, discapacitados, personas de la tercera edad, indígenas, etc.
c. Actividades de capacitación que formen a los grupos que trabajan con el CCS, en determinados oficios o labores que le provean de herramientas técnicas para impulsar su propio sustento o contribuyan a generar proyectos de autogestión económica sin perspectiva de lucro que contribuya al desarrollo de las actividades sociales que realiza el Centro.
d. La formación de líderes para el desarrollo comunal, social, económico, sindical, universitario, rural, etc.
e. Los seminarios de investigación y acción social.
f. La programación de planes de desarrollo.
g. Las jornadas sociales.
h. Todas aquellas actividades encaminadas a la concientización o concienciación social y a la resolución pacífica de las controversias sociales de acuerdo con los principios que sustentan la promoción, defensa y divulgación de los derechos humanos con una visión integral de estos.
Mission: Trabajar fundamentalmente con los sectores urbano-marginales de la ciudad capacitando, promocionando y asesorando a los pobladores de esas zonas. Nuestros objetivos prioritarios podrían resumirse en la idea de promover y acompañar la reconstrucción y/o consolidación de las formas organizativas de los sectores populares, en procura de satisfacer sus necesidades básicas y generar crecientes procesos autogestionarios
Mission: Es una organización que ha sido creada única y esencialmente, para contribuir a la investigación para la producción de conocimiento, la formación de talentos humanos para consolidar actores de cambio, la ejecución de proyectos y acciones de apoyo a procesos de incidencia social y además para la difusión, divulgación e interlocución de la producción académica de pensamiento social.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Displacement Forced eviction Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Water and sanitation rehabilitación y mejora de barrios, Tecnologías, Bienes comunes, Derechos humanos, Discriminación, E
Apátridas, Vendedores-as de la calle, Adictos
Conferencias Hábitat, Coordinación, Normas y estándares, Gobernanza local,
Mission: Desde una visión interdisciplinaria se propone construir un espacio de producción, transferencia e intercambio de conocimiento vinculado al territorio y hábitat popular (urbano y rural), mediante procesos de investigación, en un proceso sinérgico que potencie el poder transformador del conocimiento científico y el rol social de la universidad, aportando de manera complementaria a la docencia y extensión.
En este sentido, los aspectos específicos que se buscan desarrollar son los siguientes:
- Crear un espacio de investigación en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo en un área de vacancia académica: el territorio y hábitat popular.
- Brindar apoyo de carácter multidisciplinar teórico y metodológico que respalde el desarrollo de proyectos de intervención en el territorio.
- Generar, fortalecer e institucionalizar vínculos con referentes científicos nacionales e internacionales.
- Brindar capacitación profesional de grado y posgrado sobre procesos de transformación territorial vinculados al hábitat popular.
Mission: Los objetivos son la investigación, la asistencia técnica y la capacitación en la temática social, urbana y ambiental, en particular a nivel municipal.
Mission: Promover la igualdad, la defensa de los derechos humanos, políticos, civiles, sociales, económicos, culturales y del ambiente, la participación ciudadana y la lucha contra la corrupción. La Igualdad, es el centro de nuestra visión y acción, y por ello nuestro objetivo es aportar a la desestructuración de las desigualdades en la distribución de la riqueza, del tiempo y del espacio, dotando a todos los miembros de la sociedad de iguales herramientas, oportunidades de base y de las condiciones que permitan a cada uno disfrutar de las posibilidades reales, ciertas y concretas para poder vivir dignamente. Decidimos actuar y pensar en un mundo social alternativo y por ello nos convocamos y auto-recreamos para fundar una asociación civil que tenga como principal misión lograr la Igualdad entre las personas y una nueva relación entre la Naturaleza y la humanidad como parte de ella.
Mission: Generar conocimiento y promover la gestión del riesgo de desastres, así como una cultura ambiental y de prevención, a nivel nacional e internacional, como parte inherente al desarrollo sostenible, involucrando a todos los actores sociales.
Mission: desco Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo, es una organización no gubernamental de desarrollo que se ubica en la sociedad civil peruana, con 48 años de trabajo al servicio de la promoción del desarrollo social y del fortalecimiento de las capacidades de los sectores excluidos del Perú.
desco cuenta con un equipo multidisciplinario de 110 profesionales y técnicos comprometidos con el país a partir de su misión institucional. Todos sus integrantes comparten una cultura institucional de solidaridad, calidad y competitividad, basada en el reconocimiento de la diversidad, en la capacitación permanente de su capital humano y en la transparencia y el carácter democrático de su gestión.
Misión
Promovemos con los sectores populares alternativas de desarrollo que mejoran su calidad de vida.
Visión
desco es una institución que lidera propuestas de desarrollo que inciden en políticas públicas y de cooperación.
Principios
desco asume como parte de su historia, de su misión y definición institucional, cinco principios frente a los sectores con los que trabaja y las instituciones de cooperación al desarrollo con las que se vincula:
* Trabajamos por un desarrollo nacional equitativo, sostenible y descentralizado, basado en una institucionalidad democrática y participativa.
* Sostenemos que el fortalecimiento de capacidades económicas, sociales, políticas y culturales mejora la posición de los grupos menos favorecidos en la sociedad.
* Creemos que la construcción de ciudadanía y el fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil mejora la participación de los sectores populares en la política y el mercado.
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Cultivamos un pensamiento crítico orientado al desarrollo humano y la democratización de la sociedad para generar propuestas de política alternativas.
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Somos una institución democrática, innovadora y plural, cuyos miembros practican y promueven los valores éticos y la solidaridad.
Basic services
Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban planning Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Violencia Urbana
Mission: Promover y dar apoyo a organizaciones sociales, así como aportar a gobiernos locales en el diseño de políticas públicas y acciones en los diversos campos de la problemática urbana y social. CISCSA trabaja en procesos de articulación nacional, regional e internacional a los fines de fortalecer vínculos entre instituciones comprometidas con la problemática urbana, la vida en las ciudades y el hábitat en general, siendo un campo de desarrollo específico de la Institución el abordaje de estos temas desde una perspectiva de género
Mission: Comunidades y grupos poblacionales de base sin diferencias de región, sexo o edad. En lo concerniente al tema habitat, CIERI trabaja en el mejoramiento de la calidad y condiciones de vida por via de la dinamización socio-cultural. Participa en la capacitación en la capacitación de actores locales dedicados a la promoción de valores y al mejoramiento de actitudes urbanas. CIERI no trabaja creando ciudades sino contribuyendo a crear ciudadanos.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gentrification Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Urban planning Water and sanitation
Mission: CIDAP es una institución no gubernamental sin fines de lucro que se propone contribuir a superar los problemas de pobreza de nuestras ciudades, generando propuestas sustentables y desarrollando capacidades en los hombres y mujeres, líderes, autoridades o ciudadanos para que sean constructores de ciudades para la vidaática situación, que marca a sus miembros para siempre con un fuerte compromiso político social con el país.
Mission: Hacer efectivo el derecho a vivir bien en la ciudad, en condiciones justas y democráticas; promueve el debate sobre la problemática urbana y regional, el desarrollo de un pensamiento crítico, la formulación de políticas alternativas para la gestión local y el fortalecimiento de diversos actores sociales e institucionales.
Mission: Objetivos generales del CIET:
- Enfocar integral e interdisciplinariamente los temas prioritarios que la región NEA determine.
- Aportar el estudio de los problemas territoriales para la promoción humana de modelos alternativos de desarrollo local y desarrollo sustentable.
- Contribuir a la consolidación organizativa de los grupos de base, y a la generación y fortalecimiento de los procesos de autogestión comunitaria.
- Propender a la búsqueda de nuevas metodologías y acciones que signifiquen una optimización en la utilización de los recursos disponibles.
- Ofrecer un ámbito de discusión e intercambio de ideas y propuestas como aporte para la evolución de la región, realizando permanentemente transferencias de modos de trabajo, conocimientos y experiencias, como así también capacitar recursos humanos.
Mission: Misión
El CMMLK es una organización macroecuménica de inspiración cristiana.
Acompaña solidaria y proféticamente al pueblo cubano y sus iglesias en la formación para la participación popular consciente, organizada y crítica empeñada en un proyecto socialmente justo, Realiza y propicia procesos educativos de acción-reflexión y de comunicación, el acompañamiento y la articulación de actores sociales, y la solidaridad internacional.
Mission: Contribuir al mejoramiento de las condiciones integrales de vida de los pobladores pobres de nuestro país, a través del impulso y fortalecimiento de procesos que incidan en la gestión democrática; participativa; integral y sustentable del territorio; del hábitat; su gobernabilidad local; su convivencia social; así como los espacios sociales, ciudadanos y públicos donde interactúan.
Mission: Ciudad Alternativa basa su accionar en la estrategia del mejoramiento urbano con participación de la comunidad. Apoya proyectos de mejoramiento barrial con integración de las organizaciones territoriales, combinando el mejoramiento físico con educación y formación. Realiza asesoría a organizaciones comunitarias para su fortalecimiento y desarrollo. Y apoya con asesorías y propuestas metodológicas a los ayuntamientos, para que sean más participativos, contribuyan con el desarrollo de los asentamientos precarios e incorporen su accionar en la lógica de la corresponsabilidad ciudadana.De esta forma contribuye a desarrollar capacidad de demanda y propuesta por parte de las organizaciones y capacidad de respuesta y construcción de alternativas participativas por parte de las autoridades municipales.
Mission: El CLUB HÁBITAT surge de un largo proceso de coordinación de sectores del barrio Isabelita y sectores aledaños que data de los años 1984-1992 en la lucha contra los desalojos y el reasentamiento de comunidades como El Pensador, Maquiteria, Los Mameyes, Calero, entre otras, y las nuevas luchas de Isabelita, Brisas del Este, Valiente y otros sectores aledaños por servicios y desarrollo social
Mission: La CNDH presta asistencia jurídica a las personas y organizaciones que ven violados sus derechos humanos en las ciudades y zonas rurales. también desarrolla un programa con los dominicanos retornados al país. la CNDH realiza un programa a favor de las comunidades sometidas a desalojos forzosos.
Mission: Organización social comunitaria que trabaja con habitantes del barrio EL TAMARINDO en el municipio SANTO DOMINGO ESTE. Nuestra organización trabaja en la defensa del derecho a la vivienda, salud comunitaria y educación.
Mission: Defender la integridad de la vida y promover el desarrollo humano sustentable, ratificando la vigencia integral y plena de los DDHH, velando especialmente por los pobres, marginados y excluidos de la sociedad.
Mission: Organización social comunitaria que trabaja con habitantes de los barrios de las zonas norte y nordeste del Distrito Nacional de la ciudad de Santo Domingo y coordina con organizaciones de las diferentes regiones del país.
Mission: El CODECOV trabaja en la formación de sujetos sociales con potencialidades y disposición de poner al servicio de la comunidad sus conocimientos y habilidades. Trabaja en el fortalecimiento institucional de las organizaciones comunitarias de base. Coordina acciones con otras en la búsqueda de solución al problema de la vivienda y el no desalojo. Trabajamos por el desarrollo social en todas sus manifestaciones buscando mejorar la calidad de vida de los municipes de nuestro entorno.
Mission: Desde 1984 el CUP trabaja con habitantes de barrios y comunidades de distintos municipios de republica dominicana. Ha motorizado la defensa del derecho a la vivienda, la tierra y la lucha por servicios básicos para las comunidades marginadas. Ha organizado la resistencia a las políticas neoliberales.
Mission: Mejorar la habitabilidad de las comunidades rurales e indígenas marginadas, a través de proyectos que fomenten la autosuficiencia económica, la organización social y la autoproducción de espacios habitacionales sostenibles y dignos, con base en la recuperación del conocimiento tradicional y la reconciliación de los pobladores con su territorio inmediato.
Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Women, urbanization and migration Women's habitat rights
Cooperativistas
Mission: Ser un espacio de coordinación de los esfuerzos y gestiones del movimiento cooperativista de la región centroamericana, en su lucha por el acceso a tierra, financiamiento estructural y marcos legales que garanticen el desarrollo del modelo de Cooperativismo de vivienda por ayuda mutua autogestionario
Mission: JUNDEP es una ONG que encuentra sus orientaciones al ser parte del incremento de la densidad y espesor de una ciudadanía preocupada por lo publico. Entendiendo los asuntos públicos como un campo no exclusivo de la actuación de las lógicas del mercado o del Estado, sino también como un espacio donde una comunidad de ciudadanos articula iniciativas y expande la capacidad de auto-producción de la propia sociedad, procurando con ello, un proyecto de desarrollo mas democrático.
La esfera transnacional de la cosa publica pasa a ser comprendida como un nuevo espacio institucional en que actúa la sociedad civil organizada, y que es complementaria con las dimensiones locales y nacionales.
La especificidad de JUNDEP se encuentra a partir de una comprensión del territorio, en su dimensión cultural, económica, geográfico-urbana y socio-institucional. Este tipo de aproximación define un fuerte anclaje local que busca formular alternativas y experiencias para enfrentar los problemas de inclusión social y desigualdad que se observan en los territorios urbanos y rurales.
Desarrolla e implementa programas e iniciativas que buscan mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas, enfatizando un enfoque que prioriza la realidad de los territorios productivos asociándose con personas, grupos y organizaciones en barrios, poblaciones y villorrios.
En este proceso acompaña, asesora y orienta a cientos de familias para que encuentren una adecuada solución a sus problemas locales. El enfoque busca integrar metodologías que actúan sobre diversas dimensiones, se prioriza la habitabilidad, la participación local en la gestión pública, integrando transversalmente el enfoque de genero, el trabajo con jóvenes y la promoción del voluntariado.
Mission: Corporación Región es un centro de pensamiento crítico que aporta conocimiento sobre la realidad, contribuye a la formación de ciudadanías críticas y de una cultura política democrática, promueve espacios de deliberación y concertación de agendas sociales y políticas, y participa en ellos. Somos promotores de la paz, la democracia, la equidad y la inclusión , el reconocimiento de la diversidad cultural; la ética del cuidado de sí, de los otros y el entorno, en el marco de unas relaciones equitativas entre géneros, generaciones y por una ciudadanía plena para mujeres y hombres. Son nuestros propósitos: La democracia, la paz, el desarrollo, la equidad y la inclusión social. La equidad de género. Lo local y el territorio como ejes de la democracia y la equidad. El reconocimiento a la diversidad y el diálogo inter cultural. El respeto y la preservación del medio ambiente, y una ética planetaria.
Mission: Es una Red Organizaciones, y su principal lucha es por el Acceso a una hábitat adecuado para las personas con serias dificultades en su desarrollo económico.
Mission: We are a school of civil engineering with undergraduate and graduate programmes (master and PhD degrees).
Our main field of work related to Habitat Coalition is housing and urban management, including particularly housing for low-income people and the recovery of deteriorated urban settlements
Mission: Professional capacitation in programs pre and post graduate with emphasis in habitat studies, human settlements and local development. We support community programs, particularly in themes like urban renovation, local habitat improvement and application of politics org. and social development.
Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Gender-based violence Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Rehabilitación / mejoramiento de barrios, colectivización, derechos de propiedad, derechos humanos,
Gobernanza local
Mission: Los objetivos institucionales de FECOVI están definidos como:
-la reivindicación del sistema de ahorro previo como solución al problema habitacional
-la defensa gremial de las cooperativas de ahorro previo
-la promoción y creación de nuevas cooperativas de vivienda
-la planificación y ejecución de programas de capacitación cooperativa
-la coordinación de acciones con otras organizaciones que pretendan eliminar el déficit habitacional
-la coordinación de acciones con organizaciones de otras modalidades cooperativas en la defensa y promoción del cooperativismo.
- el ejercicio de la intercooperación y la coordinación con otras instituciones y organizaciones sociales, ya sean locales, regionales o internacionales, preocupadas por el hábitat y el derecho a la tierra y a la ciudad, el medio ambiente sostenible, la gentrificación y los procesos de descentralización y planificación urbana.
*Ver documento en papel " El Cooperativismo de Vivienda de Usuarios por Ahorro Previo de Uruguay"
Mission: La Federación de Villas, Núcleos y Barrios Marginados (FEDEVI) se constituye en 1996 Uno de sus objetivos es integrar ñas villas a la ciudad a través de la reunificación de todo el movimiento villero.hacia adentro, y a la vez potenciarlo hacia afuera, hacia el conjunto de la sociedad. A medidos de 1997, FEDEVI lanza el anteproyecto de la ley de Radicación y transformación. Su antecedente fue el Programa de Radicación y Transformación de Villas de la Capital iniciado en 1990. Logros alcanzados: Grado de la Organización, A cercamiento con otras organizaciones sociales de base de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Implementación de Proyectos con financiamiento Nacional para todas la Villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Financiamientos de Programas de Empleo para el desarrollo urbanístico de los barrios.
Mission: Lleva adelante proyectos productivos, construcción de viviendas en algunos puntos del país, apoya los procesos de cambio en la región y promueve las herramientas para lograr equidad y justicia social.
Mission: The first mutual aid housing cooperatives emerged in the country in 1966, when three pilot experiences, composed of labor activists from the Uruguayan hinterland, were sponsored and supported by a nonprofit private organization: the Uruguayan Cooperative Center (CCU). These cooperatives became an alternative housing solution for ninety-five families. This program was financed by the national government and the Inter-American Bank (IDB), as part of a bilateral agreement for the construction of 4.100 housing units. At the end of 1969, with reference to all the programs built in the country, both by the state and by the private sector, these co- operatives had achieved the best results in terms of costs and final qualities.
With the inclusion of the cooperative system in the National Housing Act, passed in 1968, this alternative was rapidly replicated throughout the country. The years that followed the approval of the Housing Act saw the emergence and consolidation of the cooperative movement: from three projects built in 1969 to a reality of 210 cooperatives under construction in 1971, meaning housing solutions for more than 6.700 low-income families of urban areas. Between 1970 and 1973, thousands of members of labor unions and dwellers of working class settlements organized and turned to the Institutes of Technical Assistance (IATs) for support and advice to set up housing cooperatives. Until 1975 the cooperative movement was the main receiver of loans from the National Housing Fund; at the end of this period, one of every two loans provided by the National Mortgage Bank (BHU) was to mutual aid cooperatives.
The foundation of the Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM), in 1970, was a fundamental factor in the consolidation of mutual aid cooperatives as a social force, becoming one of the most powerful urban social movements of contemporary Uruguayan history. During the immediate years that followed its foundation, FUCVAM obtained important achievements that contributed to the expansion of the cooperative proposal: larger and faster allocation of land for housing cooperatives, acceleration of the administrative procedures for approval of the legal status, negotiation of better terms and conditions for the loans, were some of the most important goals achieved.
After thirty years of the enactment of the National Housing Act in Uruguay, mutual aid cooperatives have proved to be the system allowing to obtain the best solutions at the lowest costs (with more than 16.000 units already built) and the best results as regards up keeping, maintenance and urban complementation of housing projects, as well as the one that has best fitted the needs of the beneficiaries, and that has appreciated and used the community spaces in the best way.
After construction of the dwellings is completed, the organization that the groups acquire during the building period -which is later extended as the collective ownership system which most of them have chosen as the structure of use and administration of the common state- has naturally led them to approach, also collectively, other common social problems; thus, multiple community-oriented initiatives of social development have been promoted, as a grassroots contribution to improving the quality of life of the cooperative members and settlers of the surrounding neighborhoods to which the cooperative is open.
Nowadays FUCVAM is composed by 320 cooperatives (18.000 families). The Uruguayan housing cooperative system is being developed in several countries as Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentine, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
FUCVAM is involved in a few networks such as HIC (Habitat International Coalition), SELVIP (Secretaría Latinoamericana de Vivienda Popular), ICA- Housing Co-operatives (International Co-operative Alliance).
At the moment FUCVAM is interested in integrating new networks oriented to other thematic areas such as political education, social alliances, fight against the neoliberalism, etc.
The present Workshop turns out very opportune to interchange experiences of communitarian development, political actions and transformation of the daily issues.
Mission: La misión de Foro es contribuir a la construcción y consolidación de instituciones sociales y políticas democráticas a través de la promoción de la participación ciudadana, el fortalecimiento de las organizaciones sociales, la formación de nuevos liderazgos y la promoción de una cultura de los derechos humanos. Sus prop{ositos est{an encauzados a la búsqueda de la democratización de la sociedad y el Estado Colombiano, promoviendo procesos orientados a la construcción de una cultura democrática basada en el respeto por los Derechos Humanos; al ejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía; a la promoción de la participación activa de los ciudadanos; al reconocimiento de la igualdad de las mujeres y a la formación de opinión pública, crítica de su entorno y propositiva en diversos ámbitos de la vida local y nacional.
Mission: La constitución de un "Foro Urbano" en Ecuador se enmarca en la confluencia de diferentes sectores sociales urbanos a partir de la identificación de necesidades y reivindicaciones comunes, y se propone un proceso de articulación y construcción de un movimiento social urbano de alcance nacional que defienda el derecho a apropiarse y disfrutar del entorno urbano a través de procesos de participación política y social con identidad urbana. Por otro lado, también se busca profundizar la vinculación de los movimientos urbanos con las diferentes iniciativas de gestión local participativa y construcción de poder local, como una de las estrategias encaminadas a construir ciudades alternativas.
El Foro Urbano funciona de forma descentralizada y coordinada en varias ciudades del país, a través de las siguientes organizaciones sectoriales:
MOVIMIENTO NACIONAL DE MUJERES POR LA VIDA
Es un espacio de articulación de las organizaciones de mujeres urbanas, viene trabajando desde hace aproximadamente 8 años. Tiene presencia en alrededor de 10 provincias donde se articulan colectivos de mujeres. Sus principales ejes de trabajo son la lucha por la equidad de genero, la incorporación del enfoque de genero en las políticas públicas y en los planes de desarrollo de gobiernos locales, la participación ciudadana.
RED DE VIVIENDA ACCION POR LA VIDA.
El problema de la vivienda es uno de las necesidades fundamentales que enfrentan los sectores urbano populares. La Red de Vivienda acción por la Vida se conforma en el año 2000. Participan en este proceso organizaciones viviendísticas como: Coop. San Juan Bosco,Asociación de Vivienda Foro Urbano, Asociación de Vivienda Alianza de Mujeres . Las líneas principales de trabajo son: el acceso a vivienda digna para los sectores urbano populares; La capacitación de dirigentes barriales (al momento nos encontramos desarrollando una escuela de formación de líderes barriales que tiene una duración de 9 meses); conformación de microempresas comunitarios en los organizaciones que son miembros; Educación a través de una extensión de la unidad educativa ¨Nuestra Tierra¨; la defensa de los usuarios de los servicios de salud pública.
Mission: To contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of low income families, in the area of habitat and communal strengthening, trought innovative and competitive products of services.
Mission: To promote sustainable human development through the strenghtening of the vulnerable and excluded population´s habitat social production; empowering their leadership and organized participation, critic conscious formation, equity of gender, political incidence (advocacy) and risk management. ******* Promover el desarrollo humano sostenible por medio del fortalecimiento de la producción social del hábitat de la población vulnerable y excluida; potenciando su participación protagónica y organizada, formación de conciencia crítica, equidad de género, incidencia política y gestión del riesgo.
Mission: SELAVIP es una fundación privada que apoya proyectos de vivienda para familias de extrema pobreza. Nos enfocamos en la “emergencia social extrema”, es decir en familias cuyas viviendas se encuentran en condiciones muy precarias y/o inseguras, y en terrenos expuestos a inundaciones o deslizamientos. Nos gustaría también apoyar a aquellos hogares que se ven obligadas a vivir de allegados en condiciones de hacinamiento que les impide llevar una vida familiar plena, o a los que están expuestos a ser desalojados. Es poco probable que, bajo estas condiciones tan desfavorables, las familias pobres puedan soñar con acceder a una vivienda a través de programas convencionales, ya que por lo general no cumplen con los requisitos mínimos exigibles. SELAVIP desea abrir alternativas realistas para estos hogares que no “calzan” en ningún programa habitacional existente, sea público o privado. Queremos involucrar a más grupos y países en desarrollo, en la tarea de buscar soluciones realistas de vivienda para los más pobres. Queremos abrir nuevas oportunidades a grupos organizados, comunidades ONGs y gobiernos locales para trabajar en esta área, adquirir experiencia y ser capaces de emprender proyectos de mayor envergadura en el futuro. Estamos abiertos a la postulación de propuestas innovadoras para abordar problemas críticos de vivienda otorgando recursos para un año de implementación.
Mission: Es una Asociación constituida a iniciativa de profesionales que reúne las disciplinas de la arquitectura, el urbanismo, el diseño de los asentamientos humanos, el trabajo social, y la administración pública.
La mayoría de sus integrantes han colaborado (algunos por más de diez años) en el "Fideicomiso Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México", participando y/o coordinando buena parte de los 547 proyectos que esta institución apoyó entre 1991 y 2001.
El OBJETO del Grupo es "Planear, promover, asesorar, y evaluar todos aquellos proyectos, acciones, obras y servicios que propicien la recuperación y conservación del patrimonio cultural, histórico, arquitectónico y urbano de los mexicanos, particularmente el que esté inscrito en la lista del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO" (Artículo 4, párrafo I de los Estatutos de la Asociación).
El Grupo trabaja en los Centros Históricos, Sitios y Zonas Patrimoniales de la República Mexicana, pero mantiene fuertes vínculos con instituciones similares en ciudades de América Latina y el Caribe.
Mission: Asentamientos informales, cooperativa de vivienda, micro empresarios.
Promueve el desarrolllo de iniciativas locales para el mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de la poblaciones con escasos recursos.
Trata de incidir en políticas públicas. Especialista en vivienda, financiamiento, urbanismo y desarrollo local.
Mission: Colaborar activamente en la profundización de los procesos de democratización de nuestra sociedad, fomentando formas de democracia concertada, con un equilibrio entre: un Estado capaz de cumplir su rol de promotor del bien común y el desarrollo económico social, y una sociedad civil fortalecida.
Desarrollando actividades tendientes a superar situaciones de exclusión social y pobreza a través de la participación, la capacitación, la organización y la solución de necesidades básicas de los sectores más pobres.
Mission: La misión del IIED - América Latina es contribuir al desarrollo de sociedades más justas, articipativas, democráticas y sustentables. Para ello ha fortalecido una línea de trabajo basada en la realización, promoción y difusión de proyectos de investigación, acción directa, asistencia técnica y capacitación en temas de medio ambiente, desarrollo socioeconómico y procesos de urbanización. En particular, su acción institucional se focaliza en el mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida y el poder de decisión de los grupos poblacionales más vulnerables de América Latina y el Caribe, buscando influir en las políticas económicas, sociales y ambientales de los países de la región.
Mission: Acompañar a la población meta y a las empresas de economía social para impulsar conjuntamente procesos de autodesarrollo sostenible que contribuyan a la erradicación de la pobreza y de toda forma de exclusión social, y promover la organización de movimientos sociales, incidentes y beligerantes que provoquen cambios positivos en las políticas de Estado que favorezcan a la población más vulnerable, con la participación de la mujer, la juventud y las etnias.
Basic services
Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban planning Water and sanitation
Mission: Nosso objeto de trabalho concentra-se no plano das relações entre as representações da cidadania e os governos locais, nas políticas públicas e nos processos de participação popular e fortalecimento dos movimentos sociais, na organização de fóruns e redes, na análise da gestão municipal e de políticas públicas.
Mission: Desde 2003, en México Distrito Federal, la Fundación Rostros y Voces ha llevado un proceso de participación de jóvenes desempleados en el desarrollo de las comunidades, buscando la sinergia de mayor capacidad laboral y liderazgo para los y las jóvenes junto con la producción de nuevos servicios útiles para la comunidad.
El programa se llama Jóvenes Constructores de la Comunidad, está relacionado a los exitosos esfuerzos paralelos en EE.UU., Sudáfrica, Servia, y Canadá, donde se llama “YouthBuild.” El modelo local fue desarrollado con amplia participación nacional, es una versión sumamente mexicana, y la experiencia en la implementación ha sido una revelación.
El programa brinda opciones concretas a jóvenes sin empleos, dándoles una oportunidad para lograr cuatro cosas a la vez: 1) capacitarse en un oficio, desarrollando habilidades en el área de la construcción; 2) producir beneficios tangibles a la comunidad, a través de la renovación de centros comunitarios, plazas y otros espacios públicos; 3) desarrollar su liderazgo, ciudadanía, y habilidades para la vida; y 4) mejorar su nivel académico. Después de la experiencia de capacitación y servicio comunitario, el programa les brinda a los y las jóvenes oportunidades de integrarse al mercado laboral, de incorporarse a la escuela, o formar una microempresa. Se trata de reconstruir comunidades, y transformar vidas.
Mission: Asesoramiento técnico/jurídico en el campo del hábitat y la vivienda. Talleres sobre violencia familiar y adicciones. El movimiento está integrado por abogados, arquitectos, psicólogas sociales.
Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
Urban planning Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: El Observatorio de la Reconstrucción surge con el propósito de democratizar las discusiones en torno al proceso de reconstrucción vinculado al terremoto y maremoto de febrero de 2010 ocurrido en la zona centro sur de Chile.
El (((OR))) entiende que el proceso de reconstrucción contiene diferentes etapas, como son la superación de la emergencia, la planificación y finalmente la reconstrucción material y socio cultural de las localidades afectadas, cada una de estas etapas posee sus propios plazos y objetivos. Es necesario sostener un espacio democrático de discusión y acción a lo largo de todo este proceso.
En este sentido, desde 2011 el (((OR))) ha llevado a cabo las Escuelas Territoriales por la Reconstrucción, iniciativa financiada por el Fondo Valentín Letelier entregado por la Vicerrectoría de Extensión de la U. de Chile, fondo adjudicado al (((OR))) en sus versiones 2011-2012 y 2012-2013. Las Escuelas tiene como objetivo entregar herramientas relacionadas al proceso de reconstrucción a los dirigentes de las comunidades afectadas, tanto a nivel legislativo como de asociatividad, liderazgo, comunicaciones, relación con el Estado, entre otras.
La universidad de Chile debe cumplir un rol de liderazgo en los temas que involucran a la comunidad nacional, el (((OR))) es una instancia que potencia las capacidades de la comunidad universitaria y que aporta al empoderamiento de la sociedad civil en general.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gentrification Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives
Sewage / solid waste management
Urban planning Water and sanitation Acceso a recursos naturales, rehabilitacion y mejora de barrios, bienes comunes, derechos de propied
Vendedores-as de la calle
Mission: Propender a que los principios del paradigma del Derecho a la Ciudad sean adoptados en las políticas y en la normativa de las ciudades en Argentina.
Y la defensa y protección de derechos vulnerados por las políticas actuales de construcción de ciudades.
Mission: Ser una organización interdisciplinaria que genere y ejecute proyectos de
atención a problemáticas sociales de la población mexicana, mediante la
organización de ciudadanos responsables, que trabajen conjuntamente por
el mejoramiento de su calidad de vida, de su entorno, de sus asentamientos
y de su hábitat.
Incidir como un agente de cambio en la solución de la problemática de la
población mediante una propuesta financiera y de educación popular para la
Producción Social del Hábitat.
Desarrollar proyectos sustentables y alternativos que incidan en el mejoramiento
de la calidad de vida de las personas y del hábitat de las comunidades,
mediante la colaboración y la cooperación solidaria efectiva.
Mission: A missão da FASE é contribuir para a construção de uma sociedade democrática e atuante em favor de alternativas ao modelo de desenvolvimento vigente, com justiça ambiental e universalização de direitos sociais, econômicos, culturais, ambientais, civis e políticos como condições iniciais para a inclusão de grande parcela da população do país ainda em condições de desigualdade, pobreza e discriminação.
Mission: Somos un equipo integrado por profesionales de disciplinas referentes al hábitat y el espacio, que tenemos por objetivo aportar a la igualdad social desde nuestra disciplina, acercando nuestro conocimiento a sectores que habitualmente no llega y contribuyendo a procesos sociales de construcción del hábitat.
Nuestra tarea se lleva delante de manera colectiva, tanto hacia el interior del grupo como en relación a la comunidad y profesionales de otras disciplinas, mediante procesos participativos y democráticos desde el territorio.
Llevamos adelante nuestra tarea bajo el siguiente marco teórico:
El derecho al hábitat y la vivienda digna como Derecho Humano fundamental.
El hábitat y la vivienda como bien social –no mercancía-.
Procesos democráticos, con participación activa de la comunidad.
El conocimiento como producción social, construido históricamente por la humanidad.
Construcción de conocimiento a partir de la relación dialéctica entre práctica y teoría.
En este contexto, nos proponemos participar de: Procesos sociales de construcción del hábitat, articulando con otras disciplinas y con actores de la comunidad. La transformación del rol profesional y su formación, vinculado a las necesidades de la población, determinado y determinante de un contexto social, político y económico. La construcción colectica y difusión democrática del conocimiento. Los procesos de toma de conciencia que las condiciones dignas de hábitat son un derecho por el cual el pueblo debe luchar.
Mission: La Red Nacional de Asentamientos Humanos – RENASEH es una asociación libre y voluntaria de Organizaciones no gubernamentales, Proyectos, Institutos de Investigación, académicos y profesionales independientes, comprometidos con los temas de vivienda y hábitat, siendo su misión el de incorporar estos temas en el debate y en la agenda nacional y local.
OBJETIVOS
La Red trabaja para el cumplimiento de los siguientes objetivos:
Impulsar la formulación e implementación de políticas publicas dirigidas a velar por un Hábitat Sostenible y una Vivienda Digna.
Impulsar la formulación e implementación de planes y programas de Vivienda Popular.
Generar procesos de concientización en la sociedad civil acerca del Derecho humano a la Ciudad y a la Vivienda.
Exigir el cumplimiento del Plan de Acción Mundial de la Cumbre de la Ciudad: Hábitat II
Mission: Facilitar las condiciones para que los sectores populares del área metropolitana de Buenos Aires puedan desarrollar organizaciones democráticas y solidarias con capacidades para gestionar sus propias propuestas y participar en la vida comunitaria y social del país.
Mission: SEHAS se propone como Misión, colaborar activamente en la profundización de los procesos de democratización de nuestra sociedad, fomentando formas de democracia participativa, y el fortalecimiento de la trama de la sociedad civil con equilibrio entre: el Estado capaz de cumplir su rol de promotor del bien común; la igualdad de acceso a los derechos humanos; el desarrollo económico social; y una sociedad civil fortalecida, activa frente a la inequidad, la exclusión, la pobreza, con igualdad de género y la consideración de lxs niñxs y jóvenes como sujetos de derecho.
Mission: Soluciones Prácticas - ITDG es un organismo de cooperación técnica internacional que contribuye al desarrollo sostenible de la población de menores recursos, mediante la investigación, aplicación y difusión de tecnologías apropiadas.
No ponemos en primer lugar a la tecnología, sino a las personas. Las herramientas pueden ser simples o sofisticadas, pero proveen respuestas apropiadas, prácticas y de largo plazo; deben estar firmemente bajo el control de las poblaciones locales; son ellas quienes les dan forma y las utilizan para su propio beneficio.
Mission: Somos Ecuador es una organización que desarrolla e implementa procesos integrales en la promoción y garantía del derecho a la vivienda, la ciudad y el hábitat, bajo enfoques de equidad, sustentabilidad y responsabilidad ciudadana.
Tenemos el compromiso de generar un espacio de diálogo y aprendizaje permanente que promueva el voluntariado responsable, la valoración del trabajo comunitario y la articulación de actores sociales en la construcción de políticas públicas encaminadas al desarrollo sustentable.
Disaster mitigation Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Urban planning Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
violencia contra las Mujeres en el espacio público
Investigación
Mission: La misión de SUR, en cuanto organismo de la sociedad civil, es participar en la formación y renovación de actores sociales e institucionales democráticos, fortaleciendo el rol de la ciudadanía en la esfera de lo público.
SUR desarrolla su misión a través de: actividades de investigación y estudio vinculadas a la realidad social del país; propuestas de desarrollo social llevadas a cabo mediante proyectos y programas locales y regionales, con financiamiento de fundaciones privadas; programas de formación y capacitación orientados a dirigentes sociales y funcionarios de organismos no gubernamentales y estatales, para el diseño e implementación de políticas sociales; asesorías y asistencia técnica a organizaciones sociales y públicas; consultorías o ejecución de proyectos y programas vinculados a políticas públicas, en las materias de su interés y competencia.
Como etapa final de estas actividades, SUR difunde y comparte los resultados sistematizados de sus estudios, investigaciones e intervenciones a través de publicaciones de su propio sello editorial, boletines de amplia difusión, seminarios, encuentros y video conferencias.
Mission: El Taller de diseño cooperativo TDcoop, materia electiva, conjuntamente con las cátedras de Arquitectura III A y Arquitectura VI C Tesis de grado, de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, FAUD – UNC, conforman un colectivo académico y técnico, denominado Taller36arquitecturaciudad, T36AC, integrado por docentes, estudiantes y egresados, que constituyen diferentes equipos de trabajo para la realización de actividades académicas, de investigación y de extensión.
En el TDcoop, se estimula la construcción de conocimiento desde diferentes saberes de la cultura contemporánea, procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje abiertos, que transcurren en contextos complejos de la realidad Latinoamericana, ensayando didácticas que nutren de la articulación interdisciplinar e intersectorial. Con el objetivo de, “aprenda a ser, aprenda a aprender y aprenda a hacer”, se propone una reflexión crítica desde un proceso de diseño cooperativo y planificación solidaria del hábitat.
Abordamos una metodología de trabajo de acción-reflexión, para transformar la realidad que se presenta fragmentada e injusta para grandes sectores de nuestros pueblos, esto requiere de actitudes y capacidades para interpretarla pero también para construirla colectivamente. Esto nos compromete como intelectuales y universitarios a realizar acciones en la producción social del hábitat que expresen una formación ética, estética, social y política.
El taller como espacio de construcción de conocimiento colectivo se articula con trabajos de campo y participación comunitario, insertos en los múltiples contextos de municipios, organizaciones sociales y vecinos, en diversos programas de asistencia técnica en planificación, proyectos y construcción para los habitantes en situaciones vulnerables.
Mission: Somos aliados de la población urbana-rural excluida, generando propuestas incluyentes, democráticas, participativas, sostenibles, con equidad de género y generacionales para la promoción y realización de los derechos a la ciudad, vivienda y hábitat.
Mission: IMPLEMENTAMOS PROYECTOS DE CONSTRUCCION DE VIVIENDA MEDIANTE UNA FORMULA DE COLABORACION;
• DISEÑAMOS PROTOTIPOS DE VIVIENDA ECONOMICA, DE SISTEMAS CONSTRUCTIVOS Y REALIZAMOS CAMPAÑAS DE DIFUSION.
• GESTIONAMOS RECURSOS CON INICIATIVA PRIVADA E INSTANCIAS PUBLICAS,
• REALIZAMOS UN TRABAJO DE ORGANIZACION EN LA COMUNIDAD CON EL TRABAJO DE JOVENES VOLUNTARIOS COORDINANDO GRUPOS DE FAMILIAS CON DEFICIT HABITACIONAL.
• DISEÑAMOS PLANES DE FINANCIAMIENTO DE LAS VIVIENDAS A FONDO REVOLVENTE PARA LA CONSTRUCCION DE MAS CASAS.
• REALIZAMOS TALLERES DE CAPACITACION Y ANALISIS DE LA REALIDAD, TANTO CON LAS FAMILIAS COMO CON LOS VOLUNTARIOS.
•REALIZAMOS VINCULACION CON ORGANIZACIONES Y REDES PARA LA COORDINACION DE ACTIVIDADES DE INCIDENCIA PUBLICA LOCAL (JALISCO)
•PROMOVEMOS LA CONFORMACION DE EQUIPOS LOCALES DE VOLUNTARIOS EN CIUDADES DE LAS REGIONES CENTRO-OCCIDENTE Y NORTE DEL PAIS (COLIMA, JALISCO, NAYARIT, QUERETARO, ESTADO DE MEXICO, PUEBLA, LEON, CHIHUAHUA, COAHUILA, NUEVO LEON)
Mission: El objetivo no es construir el “bienestar” a los habitante, sino abrir el espacio y dar la posibilidad para que ellos lo construyan, aún con el riesgo de que se equivoquen.
Ellos tienen el derecho y el deber tanto de dar satisfacción, por sus propios medios, a sus necesidades básicas en salud y nutrición, vivienda, vestido, culturas recreación, como de desarrollar sus capacidades personales.
Así, desde el punto de vista legítimo, se puede afirmar que es más importante desencadenar y mantener viva una dinámica participativa en la comunidad que acerque programas y proyectos específicos.
Mission: A construção de movimentos populares de base, com democracia interna, organização horizontal e autonomia, na defesa do direito à moradia e à cidade, de políticas públicas com participação popular e da autogestão como ferramenta de construção de cidadania.
Destruction of housing
Financing and housing Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Women and forced eviction Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: UNMP existe desde 1987 para articular e mobilizar or movimientos de moradia digna, por reforma urbana e autogestao e assim resgatar a experanca do para sociedad sin exclusividad social- Sensibilizar y concientizar
Mission: Nuestro foco de atención es la Produccion Social del Habitat, enfatizando la participación del usuario, la concertación de actores, la interdisciplina, la progresividad habitacional, generando proyectos innovadores de gestión y evaluación de programas con las características indicadas. Se coordina red de Facultad de Arquitectura, Comision de Vivienda Social ,COVISO, con la participación de todos los ambitos de investigación y enseñanza de la Facultad complementada con delegados de la Gremial de estudiantes y profesionales, que la cogobiernan. Se coordina red de Asentamientos Humanos, Habitat y Vivienda en la Universidad de la Republica, REAHVI, con la participación de las Facultades de Ciencias Sociales, Humanidades, Sicología, Derecho.Se participa en Redes internacionales de intercambio de experiencias y sistematizacion de lnformación iberoamericana en el seno de Habyted de CYTED y en la Red Universitaria Latinoamericana de Catedras de Vivienda ULACAV.Se edita una Revista semestral, Vivienda Popular, habiendo llegado al Nº 13.
Mission: Promover el desarrollo de investigaciones relativas al acceso a la vivienda y la ciudad de población en condición de pobreza urbana.
Contribuir a la formación disciplinar e interdisciplinar a partir de acciones de docencia y transferencia en el marco de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Generar aportes tendientes a la búsqueda de soluciones a las problemáticas del hábitat en nuestra región.
Promover el intercambio científico y académico con relación a la temática y objeto de nuestro abordaje.
Promover acciones de extensión en el territorio e intercambio con los actores sociales que producen la ciudad
Mission: Concerned with questions related to local authorities - decision making processes as well as actions that have impact on the life of the community. The themes are urban services, environment, culture, preservation and urban development.
Mission: Adalah's main goals are to achieve equal individual and collective rights for the Arab minority in Israel in different fields including land rights; civil and political rights; cultural, social, and economic rights; religious rights; women's rights; and prisoners' rights.
Mission: ACT exists to bring positive change in the lives of poor , marginalized and vulnerable people in Afghanistan, through the promotion of gender equity and diversity in the sector of Skill development, Housing and Sanitation in the area.
Mission: Palestinian non-governmental non-partisan organization based in the refugee camp of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. Al Mezan’s mandate is “to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general and economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in particular, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of life of the community in marginalized sectors of the Gaza Strip.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Displacement Financing and housing Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban planning Women and forced eviction Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Mission
Our mission is to maintain the Palestinian existence and balance in Jerusalem by raising their awareness of their rights. We aim to protect these rights through advocacy and lobbying while also monitoring, documenting and publicizing all Israeli violations against Palestinians.
Mission: Introduction
Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research Center (UJRC) is an independent non-governmental organization (NGO) working for sustainable development in Jordan and the Arab World through developing scientific research, administering discussions and dialogues, organizing conferences and workshops, and exchanging expertise and experience with other regional and international organizations.It pursues its objectives through forums for dialogue and discussion, especially on issues of democratic development, and by developing general policies and legislation, through workshops, brainstorming sessions, conferences, and seminars. The Center also publishes the proceedings of these activities, including research papers sponsored or prepared by the Center, in a wide-ranging series of publications.UJRC was established in 1990 as an extension to the quarterly Al-Urdun Al-Jadid magazine (1984-1990). It began working in 1993 with a license from the Department of Press and Publication (Ministry of Information) in conformity with Law Number 10 issued in 1993.The Center is a founding member of, and a participant in, a number of regional networks and umbrella groups, such as the Arab Social Sciences Research (ASSR) and the Arab Institute for Studies and Communication (AISC).It heads the Arab Network for Democratic Development (ANDD) and is also a member in the European-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights (EMHRN) and the World Movement for Democracy. The Center contributes to government and municipal projects and is a member of many governmental and non-governmental committees; especially the Jordan Scenarios 2020 project.
Mission
The Center was set up amid extraordinary local, regional, and international conditions that left a distinctive mark on its mission and objectives. It coincided with the launching of the democratization process, the legalization of political pluralism, and the resumption of the electoral parliamentary life in the Kingdom. The launching of the peace process in the Middle East, the spread of the third wave of democracy in the world, and the end of the Cold War, were among the events that also took place in the early years of the Center’s establishment This was just before the pace of globalization, economic openness, and liberalization began to accelerate, and when awareness of the importance of the role of civil society in Jordan, the region, and the world at large was increasing.Through its various activities, the UJRC aims at consolidating the role of civil society as an effective partner in democratic development and at upholding the values of human rights, citizenship, and equality. The Center also encourages dialogue, reconciliation, and respect for other viewpoints and rejects violence, extremism, and hatred.In fulfilling its mission, the Center uses scientific methodology in preparing studies and research papers, and in organizing awareness campaigns. It also upgrades policies and launches national initiatives for democratic transformation and for achieving deep economic and political reforms to qualify Jordan for the international economic sphere and its progress towards democracy, openness, and modernization.
Objectives
In line with this philosophy, the Center’s objectives are to: · Help to achieve sustainable democracy; · Operate as a national think-tank;· Prepare and publish scientific research papers;· Provide a forum for dialogue;· Build databases;· Provide opportunities for training, rehabilitation, and the exchange of expertise and experience.*
THE JORDANIAN ENVIONRMENTAL WATCH·
Introductory note:Since the beginning of the year 2000, Al Urdun Al Jadid Research Center has established a specialized unit for water and environment, known as the Jordanian Environmental Watch program, for dealing with local and regional environmental issues.This watch program, considered as a forum for dialogue on policies related to environment, is concerned with organizing scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and training courses as well as researches studies and reports about the environmental situation and conditions.·
Objectives:
The importance of the Jordanian Environmental Watch Program (JEWP) lies in the need for a professional and independent tool that can, on its own initiative, control and follow up on the Jordanian environmental situation and discuss various government policies in that regard.The JEWP will focus on the following main environmental issues: The water security problem, the right means to manage water and provide drinkable water, the adequate ways for preventing water pollution, and depletion of clean water, and for minimizing air and soil pollution as well as usage of insecticides and fertilizers in addition to other environmental problems in Jordan.
§ JEWP structure:
A team of key researchers a number of research assistants a program coordinator and media personal work at JEWP which is supervised by advisory committee comprising environmentalists well-known for their experience, interests and specialization from the public and private sectors as well as academic circle.
Mission: The Applied Research Institute ARIJ is dedicated to promoting applied research and technology transferin Palestine. Using up to date data and mapping technology for analysis, planning of land use, environment, and modeling of sustainable development in Palestine, Identifies existing environmental problems, locate sources of environmental pollutants, and measure the extent of their impact; analysis the current development trends and their impact on the environment, and synthesis projections for the future. Works with farmers to improve their socio-economic conditions and the sector in general through research on agricultural techniques, technology adaptation, planning and policy. The unit is also working in irrigated agriculture, biodiversity and IPM. A special emphasis is given to find solutions to hinder desertification and to conserve Palestinian natural resources, in particular Palestinian flora & fauna.Assess the effects of urbanization on Palestinian natural resources through analysis of satellite images and fieldwork. Identifies the patterns of urbanization in the West Bank and changes of land use as well as estimating the social and economic effects of these changes.
Mission: The HRA was founded in 1988 to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles. It is an independent non-governmental organisation registered in Israel. HRA holds a unique position locally and worldwide as an indigenous organization that works on the community, national and international levels for equality and non-discrimination, and for the domestic implementation of international minority rights protections.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Urban agriculture Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Seeks to contribute to the achievement of a civilian democratic support the rule of law and respect the freedoms and human rights and safeguard democracy also seeks to empower the poor to increase their abilities by providing them with loans contribute to transfer them from relief to development center aims to contribute to the granting of work and reduce poverty and unemployment and by working to develop the capacity of farmers and increase their ability and frames in social Totiarham to know their rights and perceptions in order to do pressing and advocacy to achieve social and economic rights.
Mission: Participer au développement intégré dans les domaines socioculturels et éducatifs du village et ses environs en créant d’abord les infrastructures de base puis les projets générateurs de revenus
Basic services Climate change
Disaster relief Financing and housing Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies Sewage / solid waste management
Urban planning Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: 1. التعريف بالمبادئ الدستورية و التشريعات و القوانين الوطنية و الدولية المتعلقة بحقوق الانسان.
2. إعداد الدراسات و البحوث المتعلقة بحقوق الانسان.
3. التعاون مع جمعيات و منظمات حقوق الانسان المماثلة في الداخل و الخارج في سبيل تنفيذ غايات و أهداف الجمعية.
4. مخاطبة السلطات المسؤؤلة للوقوف على حالات انتهاك حقوق الانسان و إطلاعها على ما قد يحدث من انتهاكات.
5. تعزيز حقوق الانسان و الحريات الاساسية في المجتمع.
Mission: - Identification et mise en valeur du site archéologique " Gigthis" à Boughrara à l’échelle Régionale, Nationale et internationale et son intégration dans les circuits éco-touristiques régionaux.
- La participation aux efforts fournis pour sauvegarder les patrimoines archéologiques et ethnographiques de la localité de Boughrara du Gouvernorat de Médenine en Tunisie
- La participation aux efforts fournis pour protéger la lagune de Boughrara contre les effets de la pollution marine.
- La conservation des ressources naturelles et de la biodiversité en faune et flore à la lagune de Boughrara
- Création des relations de collaboration et de partenariat avec des associations similaires.
Mission: AHRO has the mandate to defend and promote Farmers’ Rights, raise the farmers’ awareness about human rights values in general and about their ESC Rights in particular. AHRO focus in 2006-2007 on the issue of poverty and the poverty reduction strategies in Lower Egypt.Main areas of interest: ESC Rights, Women’s Rights, Rural Children’s Rights, Illegal Migration Activities: Legal Aid service, field research, newsletters, collecting and disseminating data about human rights situation in Lower Egypt.
Mission: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, community-based non-profit organization mandated to protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons. Our vision, mission, programs and relationships are defined by our Palestinian identity and the principles of international law, in particular international human rights law. We seek to advance the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people on this basis.
Basic services
Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
Water and sanitation Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
fisherfolks, quarryworkers
Mission: The association seeks to improve living conditions for the poor and marginalized sectors of society, both in rural and urban areas. Through projects and activities we serve their needs through needed organizing and capacity building, as well as providing material improvements.
Mission: The Building and Construction Research Center is a Non Governmental organization based in Ramallah, West Bank (Palestian National Authority ).It has been estabhished for the purpose of. Promoting the interest and general advancement of. The building and construction industries as a whole to participe in a sustainable economical development processes in Palestine.
Our mission is to cover the technical, economical, environmental, organizational and other aspects of building and construction environment during its stage of life cycle, addressing all steps in the process. Also to provide help in reconstruct the demolished infrastructure, buildings, and private property in Palestine. And to provide technical support to the construction sector and transfers of know–how. Also to facilitate technological transfer, be an information center and advisor to authorities, policy makers, specifiers and owners on building and construction matters. The center focuses on serving the Palestinian society in conducting researches, technical studies, laboratory testing and training activities in the field of construction and environmental technology.
The BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH CENTER (BCRC) is a center concerned with improving the performance of all involved with construction and environment. Contractors, clients, designers, regulators, financiers and government regularly take part of BCRC's program of activates, in order to participate in a sustainable economical development processes in Palestine.
Mission: 1- THE CENTER :
The center is a voluntary non-profitable civil organization and works independently to enlighten and train people to know about The International Humanitarian Low & Human Rights" It works under licence NO:128 /2006.
2- Goals of the Center :
1. To enlighten, teach, and to train the people the main concepts of the International Humanitarian Law & Human Rights.
2. Spread the importance of the establishment of "The International Criminal Court" and the importance of joining it.
3. Spreading the serious danger of children smuggling, working, and joining the army under the legal age .Besides, the importance of identifying their legal rights.
4. Improving the conditions of the prisoners and the jails through the co-operation with local organizations and the related civil institutions.
5. To support and uphold the issues of women and to identify their own rights.
6. To educate people of their own rights and freedoms according to the rules and regulations.
7. To breed young leaders to share in the building of their social developments and stressing on the significance of the inter-understanding and co-operation among the civilizations and cultures.
8. Identifying the international agreements in regard to the rights of the refugees.
9. Identifying the danger of organizing, owning and doing business with arms.
Working Themes:
Farmers
Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income
Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's habitat rights
Mission: Technical and human rights support of local communities and NGOs to be able to defend their rights and issues, in addition to organize efforts and local initiatives to participate in making decisions about the allocation and management of public resources in those communities.
Mission: The Egyptian Center for Public Policy Studies (ECPPS) is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-for-profit organization whose mission is to reform the legal and economic system in Egypt in order to achieve the principles of free market, small government, individual freedom and the rule of law, through:
Mission: ECHR is a non-governmental organization specialized in claming for, and defending the right to adequate housing, particularly for the weakest strata of the societyECHR goals and objectives are 1. Putting an end to all the forced eviction processes. 2. Claiming compensations and/or offering alternatives to the affected people.3. Arranging campaigns in order to create a public awareness to sustain housing rights. 4. Establishing a network between all the parties concerning the housing rights programs.5. Working on increasing people's awareness (The victims) towards their Housing rights.6. Claiming for homage for the weakest strata of the community, specially the poor, the children and the disabled. The ECHR activities: 1-Preparing researches about the situation of the housing problem in Egypt. 2-Monitoring the housing rights violations and documenting them. 3-Monitoring the laws and regulations connected to the housing rights and preparing critical studies about them in an attempt to affect the perspective of the Legalizing Authorities.4-Receiving all complaints from people, suffering from problems connected with housing rights.5-Providing legal advice and legal aid to people suffering from problems connected to housing rights, through the legal staff of the ECHR and the network of volunteering lawyers co-operating with the ECHR.6-Preparing field researches about deprived areas, in co-operation with the concerned technical authorities.7-Preparing training courses for the Human Rights activists, especially in the deprived, in attempt to create local activists.8-Increasing public awareness in the areas suffering from problems connected to housing rights about the right for adequate housing. 9-Issuing a bulletin to highlight the most important causes under discussion and connected to the housing rights and preparing an annual report on the housing rights in Egypt.
Mission: The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) is an independent rights organization. It has worked since 2002 on strengthening and protecting basic rights and freedoms in Egypt, through research, advocacy, and litigation in the fields of civil liberties, economic and social justice, democracy and political rights, and criminal justice.
Mission: Lutter contre la pauvreté et l’exclusion par l’accès au crédit et l’appui à la micro-entreprise.
enda inter-arabe est une ONG internationale de développement à but non lucratif, membre de la famille ENDA Tiers-Monde (Dakar, Sénégal) présente dans 21 pays de par le monde.
Créée en 1990 et proposant des services de micro-crédit depuis 1995, enda inter-arabe a su développer son activité et assurer sa pérennité grâce à l’application des « bonnes pratiques » recommandées par tous les organismes internationaux de développement.
Enda a ainsi démontré que les « bonnes pratiques », indispensables à la réussite durable d’une activité de micro-crédit, sont aussi efficaces en Tunisie que dans le reste du monde : les micro-entrepreneurs tunisiens sont prêts à payer à leur juste prix des services financiers de proximité répondant à leurs besoins.
Enda inter-arabe est membre fondateur du réseau de la micro-finance pour les pays arabes, Sanabel, et membre du réseau PlaNet Finance.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: xxxHLRN is a thematic structure composed of HIC Members advocating the recognition, defense and the full and progressive realization of everyone’s human right to adequate housing everywhere to a secure place to live in peace and dignity by:
• Defending the human rights of the homeless, rural and urban poor, inadequately housed;
• Promoting public awareness about human rights-based approaches to solving human-settlement problems and needs globally;
• Advocating the full human rights of indigenous peoples and people under occupation and alien domination and subjugation, in particular their human rights to adequate housing and land;
• Demand legal protection of the human right to housing as a first step to support communities pursuing housing solutions, including via social production and other practical means to realize their human right to adequate housing;
• Cooperating with various UN human rights bodies to uphold, develop and monitor standards of the human right to adequate housing, as well as clarify states’ obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfill the right;
• Conducting human rights-based policy analysis and reform in accordance with the obligations of states under international law;
• Providing a common platform for Members and communities across the Network to formulate and share human rights-based problem-solving strategies with social movements and progressive NGOs in the field of human settlements and sustainable development; and
• Educating about human rights with a focus on the experience of victims and their entitlement to remedy and reparations in accordance with international law;
• Advocating on their behalf in international forums.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Gentrification Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: The Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is the global network for rights related to habitat. Through solidarity, networking and support for social movements and organizations, HIC struggles for social justice and works in the defence, promotion and realization of human rights related to housing and land in both rural and urban areas.
Mission: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is a non-violent
protest, direct-actiongroup and resistance organization established to oppose and resist Palestinian houses in the occupied teritories. It work to end the Occupation and promote peace and justice in our region.
Working Themes:
Farmers Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income Pastoralists Peasants
Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights
Mission: Protection, consolidation, and development of Palestinians and their lands, habitats, life
styles, and capacities in standing up against the Israeli plan of forcible displacement.
Mission: Utilizes advocacy methods to change the social and political stauts of Arabs in Israel. Cooperates with other NGO's, local councils, elected reps of society, international and local human rights org and foreign embassies in an effort to achieve set goals. We as a team are involved in aspects of programming including advocacy, analysis, outreach, public knowledge, internet access, social and political justice. Impliment different programs such as: political mobilization, capacity building and international advocacy.
Basic services Climate change
Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing policies
UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
fisherfolks, quarryworkers
Mission: • L’eau est un bien commun appartenant à l’humanité et ne doit en aucun être privatisée ou considérée comme une marchandise ;
• l’accès à l’eau est un droit humain ;
• l’accès à l’eau en quantité et qualité suffisantes à la vie doit être garanti à tous les citoyens par les gouvernements de façon juste et équitable ;
Tels sont les principes fondateurs du Forum pour le Droit à l’Eau dans la Région Arabe (RWFAR).
L’Eau étant un élément de base de toute vie sur notre planète, le RWFAR œuvre donc, pour garantir le droit des citoyens à y accéder en quantité et qualité nécessaires à leurs besoins essentiels. Le RWFAR considère également que l'Eau n'est pas une marchandise et rejette toutes les formes de privatisation, y compris celles d'associations entre le public et le privé qui se sont révélées être un échec complet dans le monde entier.
Mission: La Asociacion Saharaui de Victimas de Minas ,trabaja en la accion contra las minas ,especialmente en el pilar de la asistencia de las victimas de minas .
ASAVIM trabaja ademas a la sensiblizacion sobre el peligro que representan las minas y restos de explosivos sobre la vida de las personas ,especialmente los civiles ,incluyendo niños .
la asociación trata ademas de concienciar a las victimas y sobrevivientes sobre sus derechos ,como la reintegración ,reinsercion en el tejido social .
ASAVIM coopera con las diferentes entidades con el fin de promocionar la asistencia a las victimas de minas .
Mission: -Organize Saharawi farmers; wherever they’re; within the structures of the Saharawi Union of Farmers and defend their different rights.
-Sensitizing programs and training courses for the Saharawi Farmers on fresh food production and its storage to reduce the total dependency on international food aid programs in refugee camps, and on food imported from Morocco in the occupied territories.
- Expose the violations committed by the Moroccan occupation Authorities against the Saharawi farmers.
-Uncover and document all the illegal exploitation of the Saharawi farm lands and natural resources by the Moroccan authorities in the occupied territories.
- build and develop friendly relationships with similar national and international organizations in order to gain solidarity and support.
-Participation in all activities against the Moroccan apartheid wall.
-Resist all kinds of illegal exploitation of Moroccan and multinational companies in the south of occupied Western Sahara and their huge agro-industry projects there.
-protection of the quality and quantity of the limited water resources in the desert area close to the mentioned agro-industry projects.
Climate change
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Gender-based violence Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women, environmental destruction and disasters
Women and forced eviction Women and inheritance rights Women and multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Vision:
We will work towards creating a society that is aware of its responsibilities to protect the land,build peace and promote sustainable development. We aim to employ peaceful methods to solve social conflicts and to mobilize a dialogue that avoids violence.
Mission:
We are anon-governmental organization working in the field of land rights, peace building, and sustainable development. We empower community leaders to spread and advocate these rights and to promote the peaceful exchange of disputed lands. We also help to train community leaders to be able to solve local conflicts, build social peace, and to participate in sustainable development.
Mission: The organization works to encourage and conduct research on human settlements, disseminates results through publications, seminars, training and academic courses and creates collaborative networks among researchers and between researchers and professionals.
Areas of specialization: Shelter - construction - building materials, Public services and infrastructure, Land - security of tenure, Policy development, Income generation - poverty reduction
Specific target areas: Urban areas, Inner cities, Slums, Squatter settlements, Rural areas, Refugees - migrants
Economic, social and cultural rights Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives
Water and sanitation Women's habitat rights
women and health
workers
Countries:
Mission: We are a group of visionists, NGO activists and professionals committed to the cause of social justice through the full participation of its different sectors, especially those who are most marginalized. As a group, we work through the Development Support Centre for Consultancy and Training (DSC), which is a consultancy firm, providing support and assistance to civil society organizations in specific technical and organizational areas with the aim of strengthening their role and capacity, as well as assisting them in recognizing and addressing the needs of their target groups. We see these elements (internal strength and external empowerment) as essential components for organizations to better realize their goals and objectives and face up to the challenges civil society is encountering within the globalization era.
OUR VISION
A democratic society based on empowered communities (individuals and groups) which are capable of directly participating in the development of policies that respond to their priority needs and driven by the common good rather than narrow selfish interests of particular powerful groups. A society free of all types of authoritarianism, patriarchal relations and all types of discrimination related to gender, ethnicity or religion.
OUR MISSION
Supporting the establishment of a strong, independent, influential and vibrant civil society sector, which represents the needs and interests of the diverse social sectors and movements in society, and has the capacity to influence policies, locally, regionally and globally.
Mission: The organization aims to empower women, peasants, workers and residents of poverty belts and disadvantaged groups in the Egyptian society to actively participate in the planning of the development process and benefit from the results. On this basis, he was chosen the founding of the Universal Declaration of the right to development as a knowledge and legal background of the organization and the organization to spread and activation of the Universal Declaration of the right to development through capacity building of marginalized groups in the Egyptian society to build its institutions efficiently expressing them, which enable them to participate in the development process The organization is working to raise the capacity of civil institutions and development in Egypt to pursue a jurist at the entrance of the development process
Mission: Our Mission
The PCRP's mission puts emphasis on gathering immediate support to Palestinian Refugees aiming at decreasing their suffer and maintaining their interests in a fair manner.
Our Vision:
Stressing the significant of commonly adopted values and principles in conjunction to maintaining a solid shield protecting Palestinian Refugees Rights.
Mission: mobilizing and organizing resistance against the Apartheid Wall. This growing responsibility, and the need for people from affected communities to be more involved in decision-making, necessitated a change in the Campaign’s structure.
documenting damages of the wall,
Mission: Vision , • A Sustainable effective Environment and Development Programs in Upper Egypt.
Mission, • To shift the balance of Egyptian policy and practice in favor of environmental justice and sustainability in upper Egypt.
Values
• We believe in sustainable development - meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
• We believe in environmental limits - there are definite limits to what we can take from the natural environment and to the pollution and waste we can dump into the environment.
• Within those limits we believe in fair shares of the available environmental space: in particular we are aware that the impacts of damage to the environment hit the poorest in the community the hardest both at home and overseas.
• We believe in evidence based solutions to environmental problems that make life better for people while protecting the planet for future generations.
• We believe in promoting people's action, individual and collective, local, national and
international, to tackle the environmental challenges we face.
Destruction of housing
Displacement Forced eviction Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing policies
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system
Countries:
Mission: Established in 2010, right before the ESF in Istanbul, by more than 20 neighbourhood associations, together with initiatives and platforms working on the Right to the City and the Right to Adequate Housing, to resist forced evictions and displacement engendered by gentrification, urban renewal and mega-events, Urban Movements Istanbul aims to unite dispersed grassroots and communities, each, while working solely in its own sphere and against violations inflicted upon itself, can not fulfill the realization of a wide urban movement against the interventions of capital and state actors. Through networking, advocacy, counselling and fact-finding and research in neighbourhoods and via creation of awareness by using the mass media and creative techniques, Urban Movements (UM)aims to pursue an organized resistance against urban renewal,gentrification and transformation projects. These projects have been turning İstanbul into a brand city catering to global capital and property markets but not to the needs of its citizens,furthermore building an apartheid city, segregated on economic lines. Against these developments, UM works to construct an inclusive city of denizens from all backgrounds and classes-refuges and migrants included-, a city whose public spaces are for its inhabitants (not privatized or gentrified), a city of agoras, a city that does not evict/ expell its neighbourhood communities; that is a just and democratic city in line with international human rights mechanisms and the Right to the City. UM works in close collaboration with professional chambers (architectsand planners mainly), press representatives, unions and lawyers associations.
Mission: The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) works to better the housing situation of Ontario residents who have low incomes including tenants, co-op members and people who are homeless. ACTO achieves this through:
test case litigation;
lobbying and law reform;
housing policy work;
community organizing; and,
public legal education.
ACTO works with legal clinics, tenant associations and other groups and individuals concerned about housing issues. ACTO is funded by Legal Aid Ontario and has been in existence since September, 2001.
Mission: ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the USA's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. Since 1970, ACORN has grown to more than 220,000 member families, organized in 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the U.S. and in cities in Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, India, Argentina, and Peru.
ACORN's accomplishments include successful campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and more.
ACORN members participate in local meetings and actively work on campaigns, elect leadership from the neighborhood level up, and pay the organization's core expenses through membership dues and grassroots fundraisers.
ACORN has constantly challenged the traditional notions of what a community organization is, and its family of organizations includes two radio stations, a voter registration network, a housing corporation, and several publications.
Mission: Our members include directors, managers, employees, tenants of territorial, provincial, municipal agencies as well as elected representatives, academics, housing conultants, municipal planners, tenants associations and others interested in the field.
We are the only national non-profit organisations representing the social housing sector in Canada. CHRA's goal is commitment to the principal of access to adequate and affordable housing as a fundamental human right. CHRA lighters public awareness of housing issues and in equalities through advocacy, research, communications and promotes excellence in the management of social housing through education and training.
CHRA monitors and advises on the development of social policy affecting housing. They research housing issues and outcomes and also promote the exhange of information, ideas, expertise and innovations with other countries.
Mission: CERA works to remove the barriers that keep disadvantaged individuals and families from accessing and retaining the housing they need. CERA has become a world leader in using both domestic and international human rights law to address issues of homelessness and poverty.
Mission: Is an organisation working to improve the living conditions for the poor in less developed communities. The focus is on shelter, settlement planning, water and sanitation, health, small enterprise and disaster mitigation.
Mission: CHF serves as a catalyst for sustainable positive change in low and moderate income communities around the world, helping to improve their housing, economic circumstances and environments.
Mission: VISION
A world where everyone has a safe and decent place to live.
MISSION
To mobilize volunteers and community partners in building affordable housing and promoting homeownership as a means to breaking the cycle of poverty.
Mission: NAC no longer has funding for activities.
Activities I have undertaken are at my own expense and sometimes part of my small business. Lowering energy use and emissions that contribute to global warming and assuring the systems of a home are safe and healthy for inhabitatants is activities. Energy costs can make homes unaffordable.
With the regional YWCA I am working on developing a "safe space" for women and children fleeing domestic violence. Haliburton is the only County in Ontario without a safe space for women and children fleeing violence.
Mission: International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them. We work to stop destructive dams and promote water and energy solutions for a just and sustainable world, and build the capacity of grassroots organizations to participate in and, wherever possible, lead efforts toward these goals.
Basic services
Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing Urban agriculture Urban planning
Mission: The mission of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless shall be advocating with and representing the dignity and rights of persons who are homeless in our society toward the goal of preventing homelessness and seeking appropriate and affordable housing and services for all.
Founded in 1981 the Task Force has consistently served as the central coordinating agency for services to individuals who are homeless. For the past 31 years we have served several hundred thousand individuals. Our programs help link people to services that include but are not limited to: shelter, housing outreach, transportation, employment and health care.
Through our 24-hour hotline, street outreach, day service program, overflow shelter and transitional housing, the Task Force is serving over 1000 individuals daily. No one who needs shelter is turned away.
The Task Force is the organizer of coalitions involving diverse groups of people in the development of policies that prevent and end homelessness. Since 1988 the Task Force Executive Director has participated as a member of the Board of the National Coalition for the Homeless and since 1995 as a member of the Habitat International Coalition.
Mission: Notre organisme est un organisme de défense de droits et d’Éducation Populaire qui vient en aide aux prestataires de la Sécurité du Revenu ( Aide-Sociale ) ainsi qu’aux prestataires de l’Assurance-Emploi (Assurance-Chômage) Notre organisme est un organisme d’éducation populaire impliqué au niveau local, régional , national (Québec) ainsi qu’au niveau Canadien .
Mission: Our Mission is to end homelessness.
Toward this end, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights. Most recently, we launched the Bringing America Home Campaign, a comprehensive campaign to end homelessness.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1982, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. We are committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, we work to meet the immediate needs of people who are currently experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of doing so. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work.
Basic services
Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies
Sewage / solid waste management
Urban agriculture Water and sanitation Women and inheritance rights Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: Rooftops Canada - Abri International is the international development program of cooperative and social housing organizations in Canada. Rooftops Canada works with partner organizations to improve housing conditions, build sustainable communities and develop a shared vision of equitable global development. Rooftops Canada’s focus is on disadvantaged communities in Africa. It also works in countries in transition, India, the Philippines and in collaboraiton with the Habitat International Coalition.
Mission: Stronger rights for tenants. We provide information to tenants about their rights, and suggest ways to resolve conflicts with landlords. We lobby the provincial government for better legal protection for tenants, and work to ensure the fair and consistent administration of the Residential Tenancy Act.
Affordable rental housing. With community groups, we work to persuade local governments to make laws that increase the supply of affordable rental housing. We lobby governments to fund new affordable housing. We promote tenant involvement in community planning. We ask that developers and land speculators do their fair share to meet increasing need for rental housing.
Safe and healthy housing. We help tenants organize to defend their rights and improve their living conditions. We lobby governments to make laws to improve the condition of rental housing.
Mission: The Wellesley Institute is a Toronto-based non-profit and non-partisan research and policy institute. Our focus is on developing research and community-based policy solutions to the problems of urban health and health disparities.
We:
-identify and advance practical and achievable policy alternatives and solutions to pressing issues of urban health;
-fund research on the social determinants of health and health disparities, focusing on the relationships between health and housing, poverty and income distribution, social exclusion and other social and economic inequalities;
-support community engagement and capacity building;
-work in numerous collaborations and partnerships locally, nationally and internationally, to support social and policy change to address the impact of the social determinants of health.
Our organization is a unique hybrid: While there are many policy institutes and think tanks, many organizations providing capacity building, and some funding of community-based research, no other institute in Canada brings all these strands together , all focused on developing research and community-based policy solutions to problems of urban health.
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Habitat International Coalition
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