Basic services Climate change
Disaster relief Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence Housing and land rights Housing crisis
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
Urban agriculture Water and sanitation Women and armed/ethnic conflict Women and forced eviction Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's habitat rights
Mission: Abibimman Foundation a Non-Profit Oriented, Non-Partisan, Non-Governmental Organisation (RGD G5,895, DSW 2525), established in 2000 and dedicated to the promotion of sustainable Livelihoods, ameliorate conflict situations and a culture of peace, Climate Change, environmental ,Land Degradation, Agriculture, Biodiversity, democracy and development based on knowledge of cultural, civic, human right, environmental and health issues. Promote cultural, formal and non-formal education as well as technical and vocational skill development to enhance employment and job opportunities for a better standard of human .The Foundation upholds the principles of the United Nations and African Union. Accredited member of the UNFCCC,UNGC, GEF,UNCAC Coalition and ECOSOC of the United Nations
Mission: The aim was to provide civic education to young people and the rural communities on issues that would promote acceptable morals in Malawian society.
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: Addresses social and economic problems associated with poverty and unemployment. A network of interested people and organisations. The mission is to facilitate people to be socially empowered and economically self-reliant.
Mission: Directly: urban housing practitioners, policy -makers, government officials, NGO practitioners. Indirectly: the urban poor, those in need of better shelter.
Mission: To improve the welfare of working children by providing education and health care facilities, more generally by providing recereational facilities and raising public awareness about these issues through media campaign.
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: Dajopen waste management is A Community Based Organization, which was formed by the slum Dwellers to address the Social, Economic and Environmental sanity to the less privileged urban dwellers and the small scale farmers through the recycling of waste. After collecting and sorting the urban waste, then it is recycled and several products are made. The products are then sold and the members get the dividends. Among the products are the organic fertilizer which is sold to the farmers, briquettes as an alternative charcoal is used by the members for cooking and some sold to neighbours. As part of our social responsibilities, we train other organizations.
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.
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: We serve as a brifdge between the public and private sector and civic society in the area of policy articulation, research and implimentation. It has three divisions: the environment and technology policy, economic policy and governance, gender and social development policy.
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: Our main mission is on sustainable development and one if its core activity is in the area of sustainable environment/livelihood eg. Biodeversity research: women informal sector perators food security and waste/pollution control: farmer livelihood and consumers' benefit. Gender research and development.
Mission: The organization works to promote the role of women in the profession of architecture and to create awareness in the country. It undertakes rehabilitation of housing programmes for widows and skills upgrading projects.
Mission: The main focus of the Forum of Nigerian Women in Politics (FONWIP) is to promote women's empowerment and eradicate all forms of violence and discrimination against women.
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: Currently busy in 32 small towns(50 000 - 100 000 people). It mobilizes communities to voluntarily take up environment. Activities together to improve their livisngs sstandard through the provision of clean drinking water, good air and available food.
Mission: We research and consult on environment and habitat, work on sarvanazation as a means of checking desertification, raising of community based nursery for reafforestation of watersheds and water harvesting, biodiversity. Survey and encouragement of urban slum renewal. Community/rural development through cooperative using participatory approaches and gender as a factor of production. Urban solid waste management/recycling, urban/rural water and sanitation. Housing construction/development and technology transfer appropriate to end users. Formation of cooperative societies for technology and for financial help liability. Training of groups and organisations on interest subjects and conduction of workshops and seminars for interested persons or organisations on their interest subjects.
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: Work in the area of human settlements - social organisation, financial, upgrading and social livebility. Sustainable environment. Urban government.
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: Its objectives are: to promote agricultural development, aiming to modernize underdeveloped, war-ravaged small holder establishments; to encourage and support small holder families and social groups; to strengthen micro-economic planning and private business organization for self-sustained economic growth; to develop local self-supporting social and economic systems; to promote social understanding and cooperation among the educated and the non-literate about partnership
Mission: Kenya Social Movement Network (KSM-Net) is an umbrella movements of grassroots organizations and networks championing the right for access to basic services, housing rights, secure tenure and pro-poor policies to make the condition of dwellers in urban and rural more productive. The movement through social mobilization brings together leaders from all walks of life in Kenya and has been able to influence policy and legislation by promoting right based approaches.
Mission: KITUO CHA SHERIA (KITUO) IS A HUMAN RIGHTS NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO HELPING THE DISADVANTAGED, POOR AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE IN KENYA ACCESS JUSTICE.
KITUO IS LARGELY SUPPORTED BY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS BUT THE ORGANIZATION ALSO RECEIVES SUPPORT ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM VOLUNTEER ADVOCATES, IN TERMS OF THEIR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND PARALEGALS OPERATING FROM ESTABLISHED COMMUNITY AND PRISON JUSTICE CENTERS.
We pursue social transformation of indigent Kenyans through legal aid and empowerment, advocacy and lobbying for pro-poor policies and commitment to respect for human rights.
Mission: LRS is a non-profit company that provides support to trade unions and allied organisation in SA. This is done by providing information, education, research to trade unions.
Mission: to strive towards establishing the sustainable neigh bourhood, wherein youth participate actively in programmes promoting healthy environmetn for sustainable development. To facilitate capacity building programmes wish will enable batter understanding of youth active participation in environmental justice issues.
Mission: As an Umbrella organisation for NGOs, MACOSS seeks to promote social and community development and voluntary actions through Non-Governmental Organisations. It strengthens its member constituents by initiating communication and collaboration, first among NGOs and secondly, between NGOs and government, primarily through meetings, publications and institutional development activities. MACOSS also facilitates its member organisations and strengthens their organisational capacity.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives
Sewage / solid waste management
Water and sanitation Access to natural resources, agriculture, gender, health, energy, compensation, cultural heritage,pr
Street vendors,
Local governance,
Mission: A leading Cooperative in infrastructure development of housing and shelter contributing to the development of adequate housing, shelter with access to adequate water and sanitation facilities for members and for re investment in Zambian society based on a culture of transparency and accountability though good governance and the promotion of self-help, hard work and zero tolerance to poverty of shelter.
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Economic, social and cultural rights Forced eviction Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
UN system Urban planning Adverse possession, compensation, cultural heritage, financiarization, human rights, neighborhood re
Street vendors
Habitat Conferences, norms and standards,
Mission: Muthurwa Housing Cooperative Society is an institution devoted to empowering all residents occupying the railway estates.Our Mission is to help people achieve Right To Housing and affordable sanitation through innovative sustainable solutions.
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: Vision
To build a society with affordable, decent and adequate shelter globally.
Mission
To contribute to the improvement of shelter and quality of life to the low- income communities through the provision of training, education, Technical, and financial services on a sustainable basis.
Our Values
Cooperation and Participation
Honesty and Integrity
Transparency and Accountability
Commitment and Teamwork
Innovation and Creativity
Respect and Discipline
Quality Services.
Mission: NICERDOC is a charitable NGO which researches, document and proffer solutions to some comparary problems endangering Nigerian society - particular and the world at large.
Mission: PT’s mission is to facilitate and advocate for processes and approaches aimed at strengthening people’s organization formations to ensure better livelihoods for the Urban Poor.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Displacement Financing and housing Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Mission: Planact is a non-governmental development organisation whose mission is to facilitate community development processes that enhance participatory governance at the local level to improve the most vulnerable people's habitable environments, in a holistic way that alleviates poverty.
Mission: Interested in promoting quality life for all. Assisting people by research , interventions and training programmes. Housing - quality and affordibility, health issues and management, environment and income and generating activities. . Community people are organised into groups for effectiveness and good management with efficient programme administration. Members of the group are encouraged to promote multiplied effect on other community members.
Mission: RWN was established with the mission to work towards promotion and improvement of the socio-economic welfare of women in Rwanda through enhancing their efforts to meet their basic needs. The organization’s objectives include: -· To economically empower poor women and widows in the rural and urban areas through competent financial and managerial systems, and structures that integrate to easily deliver credit to individuals;· To foster economic and social growth within households and communities;· To improve the health status of widows and orphans;· To promote peace and reconciliation.RWN focuses on the following four core programs: - provision of health care and support; education and awareness programs on different issues affecting women including HIV/AIDS, human / legal rights, new legislation like the inheritance law and gacaca justice system, sexual gender based violence, etc.; socio-economic empowerment as well as networking and advocacy.
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: To train community leaders solving local land conflicts, build social peace, and participate in sustainable development. SPIS is non-governmental organization working in field of land rights, peace building, and sustainable development to involve community leaders promoting peace culture and land rights to support events and being a channel for dissemination of knowledge, policies and experiences which will eventually lead to better and sustainable living.
Mission: Kuyasa provides microfinance services to those with secure occupational rights who are excluded from formal finance, because improving the quality of housing adds essential social value and because no other appropriate sources of housing finance are available to low-income households.
Mission: Involved in indepth research into wide range of issues concerning the built environment, housing, transportation, development control, community economic development, basic services, sustainable development.
Mission: Protection and advocacy in land and housing rights, dispute resolution, training, sensitization awareness and mobilization. Support govt. to make good laws. Oppose govt. when bad laws are made. Mobiliza tenants for development programmes. Advocate for informal settlement recognition/ upgrading evaluate activities jointly with government.
Basic services
Financing and housing Gender-based violence 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 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, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: The unplanned urban growth presents a particularly difficult situation for low-income families who have no alternative but to settle on land that is not adequate for urban development. Sometimes these families are prey to urban speculators or political parties. Even when they do have access to land for housing they are not eligible for loans and therefore the housing they construct is often inadequate and precarious. Many families live in houses that require complete rebuilding or extensive improvements.
The principal aim of the Rural - peri urban Housing service is to assist rural communities to relieve poverty by alleviating rural homelessness, poor housing conditions, other housing needs and related problems. In order to achieve this aim the Rural Housing Service undertakes a number of activities
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.
Mission: 1)Mobilising the members of the community to know their housing, land and property inheritance and equal rights. 2) Advocacy and lobbying the authority against the unfair forced evictions and demolition of the substandard shelter. 3) Consultancy. 4) Assisting and support people into improved shelter, construction and renovation - cooperatively or individualy etc. 5 ) Family health. Education on HIV-Aids, Cancer and generally cancer awareness. Agriculture for food security etc. Environmental awareness. A good sanitation in settlement areas.
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: Afrique Solidarité a pour objectifs de :
-sensibiliser l’opinion nationale et internationale pour la prise de conscience rapide et la conjugaison des efforts de tous ;
-stimuler, organiser et canaliser une solidarité massive et agissante placée au –dessus de tout préjugé, en vue d’assurer l’auto développement des groupes concernés : -lutter contre l’exclusion sociale par la création de structures d’insertion génératrices d’emploi ;
-contribuer à l’amélioration de l’intégration des adhérents dans leurs environnement quotidien ;
Mode D’intervention- Accompagnement de micro-réalisations , financement , formation, appui technique et méthodologique .
Domaine d’activité–Agriculture ;environnement, élevage, hydraulique, sédentarisation des ruraux, formation, femmes, jeunes ; etc.
Description des activités
-contribuer au développement culturel, touristique et sportif des populations.
-sensibiliser les populations dans le domaine sociale et communautaire
Mission: ANCE/TOGO is making lobbying and advocacy for housing right, sustainable habitat, and social habitat and rule implementing. We also provide social habitat for refugees and very poor families. No social habitat in Togo, so since 1999, our organization initiated a chapter which was send to the togolese parliament for vote.We are looking for partner to build social housing for poor families. We develop also some training programs for civil society (NGOs, human rights organization, Women organization, students, etc). We organize periodically workshops, conferences on which international agencies, civil society organization, ministers, etc., are invited. We are looking for partners to support our activities. We are celebrating each year the Tenants Day and the Habitat Day.
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
Low income
Destruction of housing
Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Water and sanitation D de l homme, de propriete, d heritage, educ, sante, restauration quartier, techno
Gouvernance locale,
Mission: ASSOAL structurent ses initiatives autour des missions ci-dessous :
• Aider à concevoir des politiques de développement urbain qui soient moins inégalitaires, plus porteuses d'équité, de développement pour les quartiers défavorisés, de respect de l'environnement et qui reflètent la diversité des différents groupes d'intérêts ;
• Appuyer l'émergence de groupes d'apprentissage multi-acteurs capables d'analyser les dysfonctionnements du système (économique, social, culturel), d'interpeller, d’impliquer et de responsabiliser les différents acteurs (Etat, entreprises du secteur privé, partenaires au développement, organisations de la société civile, populations) ;
• Soutenir les idées nouvelles qui émergeront sur la gouvernance ainsi que les capacités de concertation, de responsabilisation et d'interpellation qui se mettront en place ;
• Mettre en œuvre des stratégies de plaidoyer en direction des responsables des politiques publiques au niveau des collectivités territoriales décentralisées, au niveau régional, national et international.
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: Management des projets et programmes
Hydraulique rurals - SEMI Urbane et Assainisserment
Governance democratique
amenageurent et gestion des ressoruces naturalles
Intermediation
Mission: Justifications : Les groupes cibles des secteurs de l'auto promotion, du développement à la base, les femmes et les jeunes des pays du Sud éprouvent des difficultés dans la mise en œuvre et l'exécution de leurs programmes eu égard à l'insuffisance en leur sein de compétences, consécutive à un déficit d'appui et de formation qui freine la prise en charge et la gestion efficace et efficiente de leurs propres affaires. Le Centre d'Etudes, de Formations Actives et de Développement Entrepreneurial au Sahel ( CEFADES ), offre à ces différents acteurs du développement par une approche nouvelle et originale, des types d'intervention, d'appui et de formation, adaptés. Objectif du CEFADES : Amener les opérateurs économiques à améliorer leurs compétences entrepreneuriales, leurs capacités en gestion d'entreprises et leurs revenus. Forme et Organes du CEFADES : Le CEFADES est une société coopérative et son siège est à Dakar. Ses organes sont une assemblée générale composée des membres, un conseil d'administration et une direction de trois divisions zones d'actions Le CEFADES intervient au Sénégal, au Mali, en Mauritanie, au Burkina Faso, au Niger, en Guinée, en Gambie, en Guinée Bissau et au Cap Vert avec une cinquantaine de collaborateurs spécialisés dans divers domaines du développement ainsi qu’à travers toute la Francophonie par le biais de ses programmes de formation à distance et présentiels.
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)
Low income Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Sewage / solid waste management
Urban planning Acces aux ressources naturelles, agriculture, discrimination, droits de l homme, droit de propriete,
Conferences Habitat, coordination,
Mission: Promouvoir, encadrer, soutenir et mobiliser les ressources utiles au développement des activités des organisations membres œuvrant dans le domaine des établissements humains et de l’habitat ;
Améliorer la qualité à l’habitat et faciliter l’accès à la propriété foncière et au logement des populations vulnérables, spécifiquement les femmes, en les sensibilisant au VIH/SIDA, en les éduquant sur leurs droits fonciers et en renforçant leurs capacités économiques, dans une approche qui fait ressortir le lien entre le Genre, le VIH/SIDA et l’Habitat, )
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: Contribuer au renforcement de la sécurité juridique et au respect des droits des personnes menacées ou victimes d’éviction forcée et mobiliser le maximum d’acteurs autour de la thématique des évictions forcées.
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: Appui à l'accès au logement, à la producion sociale de logements pour les femmes, caisse d'épargne pour les activités génératrices de revenus pour les femmes.
Sensibilisation des femmes sur le rôle de l'épargne dans l'accès au logement.
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 decent. Veiller sur le procesus du programme de construction qui n a pas encore demarre malgre le lancement du projet a grand pompe.
Basic services Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Disaster relief Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Food sovereignty and security Gender-based violence Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights 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 multiple/structural discrimination Women, HIV/AIDS and habitat Women, urbanization and migration Women's access to habitat resources
Women's habitat rights
Mission: La mise en place et le renforcement des capacités des structures villageoises.
La formation et le renforcement des capacités des OCB partenaires.
Appui à la creatión et/ou revitalisation d'écoles de base formelle. Reforcer les capacités de plaidoyer des membres des Comités de gestion et bureaux APE.
Faire l' IEC en Santé Lutte contre les IST/ VIH/ Sida et la planificación familiale (education sanitaire).
Microfinance, mise en place de caisse d'épargne crédit.
Vulgarisation agricole.
Hygiène et assainissement / hydraulique villageoise
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, … .
Basic services Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Forced eviction Housing and land rights Housing crisis Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
UN system Urban planning Women and inheritance rights Biens communs, discrimination, droit de l homme, droits de propriete, droit d heritage, education, f
gouernance locale, normes et criiteres,
Mission: Contribuer à une meilleure organisation, un meilleur positionnement et une meilleure participation des organisations membre et des quartiers défavorisés au dialogue tri-articulé visant la planification la mise en œuvre et le suivi –évaluation des politiques publiques urbaines d’offre et d’accès au service sociaux de base en général, d’habitat et de logement social en particulier.
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: 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: 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.
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…
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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.
Mission: Fines específicos
Los fines de esta Asociación son:
1. Dotar a la formación de los universitarios de un contenido comprometido con la realidad social, que les capacite como técnicos para:
a. insertarse en los procesos reivindicativos de los colectivos que quedan excluidos del derecho a la vivienda y a la ciudad
b. dar respuestas técnicas adecuadas desde un planteamiento global, que integre los puntos de vista socio-cultural, económico, ambiental, político y tecnológico
c. garantizar la participación real de la población en los procesos de mejora de su entorno.
2. Ofrecer asistencia técnica a los colectivos afectados por el problema de la vivienda, apoyándoles en su gestión y negociación ante las administraciones, así como realizar estudios de viabilidad y fomentar la redacción de proyectos de actuación de edificación y urbanismo dirigidos a los colectivos que no tienen posibilidad de acceso a la vivienda por los cauces habituales.
3. Apoyar los procesos de participación ciudadana en el diseño y la producción del hábitat.
4. Promover la creación de asociaciones o colectivos similares, tanto en el ámbito de otras universidades -nacionales o extranjeras- como en el ámbito profesional, y potenciar la cooperación entre las mismas en proyectos de investigación y desarrollo.
5. Propiciar una mayor colaboración entre la Universidad, la profesión y la sociedad:
a. sirviendo de puente entre las universidades, los colectivos profesionales, las administraciones y las asociaciones comprometidas en el campo social para el desarrollo eficaz de los objetivos anteriores
b. dotando al trabajo docente y al profesional de una proyección social mediante la colaboración con entidades ciudadanas.
6. Promover la investigación científica y tecnológica de carácter interdisciplinar con fines de aplicación a la solución de la problemática de la vivienda y el hábitat. La orientación de las investigaciones tendrá en consideración los factores de pluralidad cultural y de formas de vida, tecnológicas y los recursos humanos, el ahorro de materiales, de consumo energético y de mantenimiento, la agilización de la gestión y el perfeccionamiento del marco legal aplicable, de las vías de financiación, etc.
Áreas de actividad:
Para el cumplimiento de estos objetivos la Asociación definirá en cada momento las áreas de actividad que considere más adecuadas, en función de lo cual constituirá la estructura organizativa y los grupos de trabajo que estime necesarios.
Actualmente las áreas de actividad de la Asociación son las siguientes, con las funciones que se detallan:
1. Formación e investigación
- Organización de conferencias, cursos, campos de trabajo, mesas redondas, seminarios y actividades formativas en general
- Colaboración con los departamentos universitarios para el cumplimiento de los fines definidos en el artículo 8, a través del contenido de los programas docentes y de las prácticas de curso.
- Investigación urbanística, tipológica, tecnológica y gráfica.
- Investigación histórica, sociológica, antropológica, filosófica, económica y jurídica, que defina el marco teórico para la acción, en el ámbito de los fines definidos en el Art. 8.
2. Asesoramiento y asistencia técnica local
- Colaboración con las personas y colectivos afectados por el problema de la vivienda o el hábitat en general en materia de información, gestión y negociación ante las administraciones.
- Apoyar los procesos de participación ciudadana en el diseño del proyecto de ciudad.
3. Cooperación internacional al desarrollo
- Apoyo a procesos de desarrollo mediante la realización de acciones y proyectos de asistencia técnica en materia urbanística, arquitectónica y tecnológica, incluyendo todo el ciclo del proyecto y/o, en su caso, obtención de financiación. Dichos proyectos se realizarán en colaboración con las asociaciones, instituciones o comunidades promotoras, garantizando la participación de los usuarios finales.
4. Vivienda y Ciudad
- Reflexión crítica, asesoramiento y, en su caso, incorporación activa a los procesos reivindicativos, acciones, foros y actividades promovidos por colectivos vecinales, asociaciones e incluso administraciones, cuyos fines y objetivos coincidan sustancialmente con los de ACS.
5. Divulgación y documentación
- Publicación y divulgación de las actividades de la Asociación
- Seguimiento de la realidad y creación de un archivo de prensa y documentación.
6. Trabajo en red
- Tener una presencia reflexiva, crítica y propositiva en el movimiento social tanto de ámbito local como global.
- Intercambio de experiencias y colaboración activa con otras personas o colectivos afines a A.C.S., ya sea por presentar un perfil similar (técnico, universitario, sociopolítico,…) o por desarrollar líneas de trabajo convergentes con las de la asociación.
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: 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.
Mission: Our vision and mission
BSHF believes that everyone should have access to decent housing
When we say that housing should be decent, we mean that it should:
Provide durable shelter from the elements
Be sufficiently affordable that other basic needs can be met
Provide secure tenure without fear of eviction
Have access to clean water and sanitation
Be large enough for the household
Be energy efficient and environmentally responsible
Offer access to livelihood opportunities and health and education provision
Promote a sense of safety, well-being and belonging.
How are we going to achieve our vision?
BSHF is working to help people access decent housing through identifying innovative housing policy and practice, promoting these ideas and examples and supporting the exchange and transfer of good practice.
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: Contribuir a la realización del derecho a la vivienda para la población de escasos recursos, por medio de asesoría técnico-educativa en el marco de la producción social de la vivienda y el hábitat.
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.
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.
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: 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: 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: 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.
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.
Working Themes:
Architecture
Farmers
Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income Peasants
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
Sewage / solid waste management
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing UN system Urban agriculture Urban planning Water and sanitation 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
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: 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.
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), fundada en 1996, es una asociación libre y voluntaria de organizaciones no gubernamentales, institutos de investigación, académicos y profesionales independientes, comprometidos con los temas de vivienda y hábitat, siendo su misión el de incorporar estos componentes esenciales en el debate y en la agenda nacional y local.
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: El TAVI está inserto dentro del Área la Vivienda Popular y su Entorno y tiene una estructura en la que se integra la investigación, la docencia, la difusión y el servicio a la comunidad. El trabajo de investigación que desarrollamos se usa para reforzar teórica, conceptual y metodológicamente los cursos de docencia que impartimos, siempre en vinculación con el servicio social y profesional que, a su vez, nos permiten actualizar y retroalimentar nuestras actividades de docencia e investigación.
Los profesores-investigadores del TAVI hemos generado un conjunto de conceptos, de criterios de diseño y de técnicas y métodos que nos han permitido trabajar como un colectivo que comparte un lenguaje común y unos mismos objetivos. Estos conceptos –participación, territorialidad, flexibilidad, progresividad, contexto, sustentabilidad.
En el TAVI se han formado muchos profesionales y ex-alumnos y han colaborado distintos profesores a lo largo del tiempo. Actualmente participamos activamente.
Working Themes:
Architecture
Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income Peasants
Basic services Destruction of housing
Gentrification Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing crisis Housing policies Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Urban planning Women and forced eviction Women's habitat rights
Mission: http://www.tlps.com.ar/que-es-el-tlps/Es una cátedra libre que desarrolla actividades de FORMACIÓN para el EJERCICIO PROFESIONAL en el hábitat, comprometido con los intereses y necesidades populares. esarrolla una modalidad de enseñanza que articula formación-investigación-extensión, en espacios de trabajo entre estudiantes, docentes y organizaciones populares; a partir de acuerdos de acompañamiento de procesos sociales con comitentes y problemáticas reales, de los sectores afectados por la crisis estructural y política de nuestra sociedad. El TLPS se fundo en el año 2002 y fue aprobado como Cátedra Libre Interdisciplinaria de la FADU en 2006, con acreditación académica de sus seminarios y experiencias de extensión y transferencia.> Desarrolla un enfoque proyectual interdisciplinario.
> Se estructura en un seminario de formación y reflexión, y en prácticas en proyectos que abordan integralmente problemáticas ligadas al hábitat, a la producción popular, al dar voz, recuperar la memoria y fortalecer la lucha por los derechos. Realiza tareas de indagación, diagnostico e intervención.> Se pone el énfasis en los procesos de trabajo conjunto, en la construcción de conocimiento colectivo, en las experiencias de formación interdisciplinaria y en el desarrollo de nuevas metodologías de investigación y proyecto.
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: Facilitar el acceso de personas y familias en condición de vulnerabilidad a viviendas adecuadas e integradas en comunidades vibrantes.
Urbarium es una asociación sin fines de lucro que desde hace más de 20 años procura promover el desarrollo de comunidades, en donde su población posea acceso a la vivienda adecuada y disfrute de entornos sociales, físicos y ambientales adecuados.
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.
Economic, social and cultural rights Housing and land rights Access to natural resources, agriculture, human rights, Armed /ethnic conflicts
Local governance
Mission: Al Mezan’s mission is to promote the respect and protection of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, in the Gaza Strip as part of the occupied Palestinian territory, through research, legal advice, advocacy and awareness-raising. Al Mezan carries out our work with a sound combination of professionalism and community participation, with our guiding principles being equal human worth and equal respect of all human rights, individual and collective, for all people as enshrined in international law and jurisprudence.
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.
Working Themes:
Farmers Low income
Climate change Destruction of housing
Displacement Food sovereignty and security Forced eviction Housing and land rights
Sewage / solid waste management
Water and sanitation Access to natural resources, agriculture, demographic manipulation, human rights, population transfe
Coordination
Mission: ARIJ's mission is promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control over their natural resources. ARIJ aims to assess alternative options, policies and strategies to conserve natural resources, which can be used as the basis for formulating recommendations and informing strategic decision making to improve the management of these resources and assist in their sustainability
Specifically, the institute aims to augment the local stock of scientific and technical knowledge and to introduce and devise more efficient methods of resource utilization and conservation, improved practices, and appropriate technology. ARIJ intends to promote values of gender equity, integrity, transparency, and accountability in the various Palestinian sectors, and advocate for the Palestinian human rights and human security. Furthermore, ARIJ seeks to motivate, train, and assist people to improve their quality of life through improving natural resources management, self-sufficiency, and socio-economic conditions towards sustainable development in the Israeli occupied Palestine.
Destruction of housing
Food sovereignty and security Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Water and sanitation Access to natural resources, agriculture, compensation, demographic manipulation, human rights, neig
Coordination, Habitat Conferences, Local governance, norms and standards,
Mission: Arab Center for Agricultural Development: Establishment and Development
Outreach: All the Palestinian territories (the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem) or as approved by ACAD general assembly.
Goal: Participatory agricultural and rural development by integrating marginalized groups especially women and youth in the development process and provision of decent job opportunities for them.
Current Legal Status: Non-profit non-governmental organization registered with the Ministry of Interior.
Competent Party: Ministry of Agriculture
ACAD Vision
A Palestinian non-governmental development leading model that contributes to building an effective agricultural rural community that relies on its capacities, identifies its future by itself and lives with dignity in the democratic and independent State of Palestine.
ACAD Mission
A non-governmental development organization that contributes to the development of the agricultural rural sector through building partnerships based on complementarity and professionalism and involvement of target groups including marginalized farmers and rural people especially women and youth. ACAD supports initiatives that encourage generation of job opportunities, capacity building and development of the agricultural and productive infrastructure and facilitates finance opportunities to establish small enterprises.
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: - 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: 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: 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
Pastoralists Peasants
Basic services Climate change Destruction of housing
Disaster mitigation Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Food sovereignty and security Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing rehabilitation / upgrading
Access to natural resources, agriculture, cultural heritage, discrimination education, globalization
Coordination, Habitat Conferences, Local governance, norms and standards,
Countries:
Mission: The Centre for Sustainable Development and Environment (Cenesta) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Sustainable community- and culture-based development. Its main area of work is Iran and South-West Asia, with programmes and projects in other parts of the world. Cenesta experts have also engaged in extensive activities in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and in the international area in general.
Cenesta has an alternative approach to a Sustainable, Endogenous, equitable and rights-based development. For Cenesta, the point of departure for Sustainable Natural Resource Management is customary institutions, world views and science and technology systems. The Cenesta major mission is re-empowering the indigenous and traditional local communities (IPs/LCs) to take their destiny into their own hands via a self-management and/or collaborative management approach.
Cenesta main activities are:
• Promote community management and co-management of natural resources
• Understand and strengthen indigenous and traditional customary law & customary community institutions of IPs/LCs
• Promote support to and appropriate local, national and international recognition of Indigenous & Community Conserved Territories & Areas (ICCAs)
• Promote and strengthen sustainable livelihoods of indigenous peoples and traditional local communities.
• Participatory Action Research (PAR) on agricultural biodiversity
• Agro-ecology, food sovereignty, and community-based production
• Participatory and Evolutionary Plant Breeding (EPB)
• Renewable energies and appropriate technologies for human settlements and environmental sanitation
• National and international policies
• Collaborative management of natural resources
• Community-based natural resource management
• Climate change adaptation and resilience.
Farmers Indigenous/tribal peoples
Low income
Pastoralists Peasants
Basic services Climate change
Displacement Dispossession Economic, social and cultural rights Financing and housing Food sovereignty and security Historical heritage sites Housing and land rights Housing cooperatives
Sewage / solid waste management
Water and sanitation Women's access to habitat resources
Access to natural resources, agriculture, energy, collectivization, commons, cultural heritage, huma
Coordination, Habitat Conferences, local governance,
Mission: Sustainable management of local natural resources to ensure community empowerment and retain the community’s customary rights and comprehensive development
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.
Mission: We work together as a team to create a self-sustaining environment in which our children live, play and work for a real change leading to individual and community prosperity, and a catalyst for capacity building leading to visionary future environmental leadership. We aim to at initating programs, projects and activities that will improve/protect/sustain the local, regional and global environment for future generations through research, information exchange, partnership, coalition with private and public sectors.
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: HLRN 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.
agriculture, collectivization, cultural heritage, gender, Artisanal food processing, value chain int
Local governance, rural extension, farmer to farmer video
Mission: Nawaya works on transitioning small-scale farmer livelihoods towards sustainability by developing their food production skills across the value chain. By empowering rural communities with access to knowledge, markets and appropriate technologies, Nawaya is creating alternative income streams in agriculture rooted in tradition, yet innovative.
A farm-to-fork approaches integrates farmers in product development as a way to capture higher margins on the value chain and link consumers directly to the source of their food.
Our vision is the co-creation of self-reliant, bountiful and resilient Egyptian communities. Co-creation occurs through partnerships and dynamic knowledge-exchange to reach goals fulfilling community needs. By ensuring a 'safe zone' where people can share, adapt and implement solutions collaboratively will lead to change that can be locally sustained.
Mission: We are Iraqi national university/ngo organization work in iraq in Mosul city.
We are 35 persons our aim is to help our citizens in Mosul city in Iraq and other countries, we believe in our works and always wanting how to makes containing with other organization which have the same aims for this we have a great time from men and women work together for our aim.
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.
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
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.
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.
Mission: Rassembler, soutenir et représenter les 1 200 OSBL d’habitation du Québec qui offrent, au total 50 000 logements.
Nos actions visent à favoriser le développement et la pérennité des OSBL d’habitation au Québec, la reconnaissance du droit au logement, de même que l’accessibilité au logement social de qualité. Le tout est accompli en s’appuyant sur des valeurs de justice sociale, de démocratie, de solidarité et d’autonomie. Notre travail, y compris le soutien via la formation, l’information, l’accompagnement et les services techniques est encadré par une approche mobilisatrice et participative impliquant toutes les composantes du mouvement que ce soit à l’échelle locale, régionale et nationale.
L’action de représentation se fait autant auprès des autorités politiques qu’auprès et au sein d’une multitude de coalitions, concertations, comités et regroupements afin de garantir que les intérêts du logement communautaire sont protégés et mis en valeur.
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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