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| Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) |
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COHRE has set itself a challenge: to promote and protect the right to housing for everyone, everywhere. To achieve this, COHRE has carefully developed a varied work programme, guided by international human rights law, and designed to reach as many people as possible. COHRE's work involves Housing Rights Training; Research and Publications; Monitoring, Preventing and Documenting Forced Evictions; Fact-finding Missions; Housing and Property Restitution; Women's Housing Rights; Active Participation and Advocacy within the United Nations and Regional Human Rights Bodies and activities in all regions of the South.
http://www.cohre.org/wkframe.htm
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| Cities Alliance |
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A global alliance of cities and their development partners committed to improve the living conditions of the urban poor through action in two key areas: (i) City development strategies which reflect a shared vision for the city's future and local priorities for action to reduce urban poverty; (ii) Citywide and nationwide slum upgrading – moving upgrading to scale.
http://www.citiesalliance.org
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| European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANSTA) |
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FEANTSA is the only major European network that focuses exclusively on homelessness at European level. FEANTSA receives financial support from the European Commission for the implementation of its activities. FEANTSA works closely with the EU institutions, and has consultative status at the Council of Europe and at the United Nations.
http://www.feantsa.org/code/en/hp.asp
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| Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) |
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IHS is an international education institute aiming at strengthening local capacities in housing, urban management and urban environmental management, with the overall objective to improve urban quality and reduce urban poverty.
http://www.ihs.nl
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| International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) |
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The International Federation of Surveyors is an international, non-government organisation whose purpose is to support international collaboration for the progress of surveying in all fields and applications.
http://www.fig.net/
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| International Institute for Environment and Development - Human Settlements Programme (IIED) |
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The Human Settlements Programme's main interest lies in reducing poverty and in improving health and housing conditions among the urban populations of Latin America, Asia and Africa, especially among low-income groups. The Programme also seeks to combine this with promoting more ecologically sustainable patterns of urban development. The Programme publishes the journal "Environment and Urbanization".
http://www.iied.org/human/index.html
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| MIT: Upgrading Urban Communities - A Resource for Practitioners |
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With funding from the Cities Alliance, the Massachussettes Institute of Technology has developed an interactive tool with choices, tradeoffs, tools, and 'hints' targeted to administrators and practitioners involved in urban upgrading. The site promotes awareness of the critical problem of providing basic services to the rapidly increasing urban poor; captures and evaluates the growing experience from upgrading projects and programs; and structures the increasing wealth of documentation.
http://web.mit.edu/urbanupgrading
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| Slum Dwellers International (SDI) |
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Slum Dwellers International is a loose network of people's organisations from an increasing number of countries in the South. The network is made up of Federations of community organisations and other grassroots initiatives that are in the process of developing Federations. Linked to this network is a group of professionals who are committed to supporting Federations of the urban poor.
http://www.sdinet.org/
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| Society for the Promotion of area Resource Centres (SPARC) |
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It attempts to fulfill a vision of our beliefs, strategies and roles. We believe that the poor must be organized, and in order to sustain this, it is they who need to develop skills. Hence it becomes essential to create a physical, emotional and social space for people to pool their human resources and facilitate learning.
http://www.sparcindia.org
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| UNESCAP: Human Settlements Section |
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The mandate of ESCAP, as the Regional Commission for Asia and the Pacific, is to act as the main economic and social development centre of the United Nations system within the Asia and the Pacific region and as executing agency for inter-country development projects in their own right. Extensive information on the Habitat Agenda, urbanisation, governance, urban poverty, land, gender and other human settlements issues in Asia.
http://www.unescap.org/huset/index.html
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