NGO that supports the social processes of community-based organizations that want to work for themselves, by facilitating engagements with formal actors like the State.
A women-led nationwide federation practicing daily savings, enumeration, pragmatic partnerships with the State, community-led housing development, land acquisition & informal settlement upgrading.
The Informal Settlement Network (I.S.N) is a bottom-up agglomeration of settlement-level and national-level organizations of the poor at the city-wide scale.
A formal bridging finance institution, which provides loans for community-led initiations regarding house construction, land acquisition, and incremental informal settlement upgrading.
The Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC) is an NPO that supports the social, strategic and administrative practices of the Federation of the Urban and Rural Poor (FEDUP) and the Informal Settlement Network (ISN). These include savings, data collection, peer-to-peer learning exchanges, community-based planning and engaging with government and other actors. CORC’s mission is to support poor communities […]
It is with great pleasure that we share our most recent publication: Exploring partnerships with local government: A people’s-led approach to informal settlement upgrading It comes at a time when South Africa is grappling with issues of land, redress and possible legislative amendments in the face of poverty, inequality and exclusion. The effects of these […]
