Cities and towns are major engines of economy, need infrastructure and housing facilities to deal with the current as well as future demand. Urban population is more than half of worlds population and is going to be more 70% in next two decades. This situation invites cheap labor supply from rural, tribal areas – then where do these people live? Cities want to use but not pay for their habitation.

These are the people who laid roads, buildings, provide services to make our households run, making eligible city dwellers life smooth , habitats livable ,affordable and sustainable. But cities are yet to include them or their habitations in to formal systems of city planning and development process not as beneficiaries but as partners. Much of disparity and inequity situation that is encountered in poorer communities in cities and towns today are clearly manifestation of some level of historical lacking of participatory urban planning as it considers poor as problem. Illegality and exclusionary engineering driven city planning and rehabilitation resettlement strategies limits their participation but prevents them from basic decent survival.

So what gives poor the power to negotiate? So core focus of the organization is based on the UDRC Alliance Model.This model promotes federation led processes to build further strategic alliance enlarging appropriate, cause specific/task oriented partnerships with other key stakeholders geographically, at neighborhoods basis or ward council/city/state level.

This alliance model promotes community committees, federation ,women and children led processes to negotiate for their rights as a solver to city, which works for both city and themselves. There are various types of projects associated to our core Programmes as Capacity building, Precedent setting, Quality Setting, Incremental way of interventions for best practice governance mechanisms.

OUR METHODOLOGY:

» Mobilizing large section of urban poor through community process, building capacities, to manage own resources e.g. savings, information, and organization building

» Converting the relationship of mistrust-destruction to a relationship of construction-rehabilitation-resettlement based relationship with local bodies, Govt. agencies and stakeholders

» To prepare communities to manage demolition, and work for a win-win solution for both poor and Govt.

» Support local federations to plan, demonstrate and build capacities and partnerships for housing and basic facility solutions

ABOUT OUR MODEL:

This model promotes federation-led processes to build further strategic alliance partnerships, enlarging appropriate, and cause-specific/task oriented partnerships with other key stakeholders geographically, at neighborhood basis or ward council or city or state level. Strengthening this model is as follows-

1. Facilitating Federation model for peoples led processes,contextual rituals so as to bring maximum possible impact, quality participation as change agents and managers with focus on bringing tiers of poor/women leaderships. OSDF/Mahila Milan Activities, ENSURING PARTICIPATION/Building leadership/Community led institutional base The Federation Model

» Setting up community centers called Area Resource Centers (ARC)

» Encouraging communities to join a Savings and Credit programme that simultaneously builds trust within a settlement and strengthens the financial assets of participating families

» Supporting communities to collect detailed information about themselves through Enumerations, Surveys and Mapping

» Facilitating Peer Exchanges and meetings through which communities can share ideas and learn from each other's experiences

» Organizing Housing Exhibitions that showcase affordable housing solutions to government authorities as well as local population

» Demonstrating through Pilot or Precedent-Setting Projects the kinds of housing and infrastructure models that work for both poor and the city and can be scaled up

» Initiating Dialogue and Negotiation on win-win solutions with relevant authorities

» Finally, advocating for pro-poor Policy Changes on the basis of grassroots experience

2. Facilitating evolution of People’s Agenda addressing urban poverty through Federated institutions at ground level which revolves around dealing issues of basic amenities, land and Housing. Launching campaigns For Public Opinion and Pressure building process from the ground :

» Promotion of decentralized Federation building

» People’s Network/Stakeholders Network ( Mahila Milan & OSDF & any other CBOS peoples forums if any)

» Common interest specific People’s Forum creation (Cooperatives/ Committees/ SHGs/ CISPF etc.)

» Stakeholders identification and evolving project specific strategic partners

3. Campaign Launching Unit (CLU) Creation of Political will: Issues; Political representatives being poorly exposed to pro-poor planning and people’s led infrastructure and housing programme processes who need to be sensitized and given cross-cultural first hand exposures for an improved accountability / governance mechanism Creation of Political will with a political agenda for

» No open defecation / City-Sanitation for all city dwellers(CSA)

» Shelter for all vision programmes (SVP)

» Land right for Urban Poor(LUP)

4. Policy Analysis Unit(PAU Unit) led by all stake holders-the people and NGOs and others in local Context

» Ideas for mainstreaming Peoples planning mechanism, Stakeholder identification and creation of resource base

» Peer group workshops and people, policymakers and expert debate workshops

» Sectoral analysis paper of current schemes and procedures for access to basic facility and land and housing

» Areas of strategic partnerships and committee formations

5. Urban Poverty Position or Status and strategy Paper (UPSSP Unit): Developing updated versions of An Analytical Framework on Urban Poverty Position or Status and strategy Paper need to be developed to bring the attention of Municipal Authorities, City Development Agencies and Urban Department and Government of Orissa itself. Literate people from settlements can be given trainings to use GIS/MIS tools(other associated skills needed for DPRs in JNNURM Projects to avoid non-participation at any level) to digitize the manual enumerations done by federations.

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