Centre of Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation (CODOHSAPA)
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Mission Statement
Seeking to empower urban and rural poor communities to improve their social, economic, and environmental conditions by creating spaces and opportunities through collaborative actions to champion their own transformative and development agenda.
About This Cause
Centre of Dialogue on Human Settlement and Poverty Alleviation (CODOHSAPA) is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation established in 2011, working to mobilise and provide both technical and financial support to its community counterpart, Federation of Urban and Rural Poor (FEDURP). FEDURP comprises vulnerable women, men, youth and children who are mobilised around dynamic saving schemes, networked at settlement, city and national levels to drive a collective, bottom-up initiatives influencing change towards inclusive and resilient cities and localities, and contribute to national development agenda. FEDURP uses tools and strategies such as daily savings, peer-to-peer exchanges, community profiling, enumeration, and mapping to organise a critical mass of poor localities – enabling us to engage with local and state authorities as partners in development rather than beneficiaries, and shift development priorities to be more inclusive and pro-poor and ultimately more resilient and sustainable. This critical mass provides a platform and opportunity for the poor to change our own lives and the shape of our localities. Hence, “They mobilise themselves in deprived communities to actively and meaningfully participate in their own development initiatives and processes.” CODOHSAPA and FEDURP are affiliated alliance of Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) network which is a transnational social movement of the urban poor which has evolved over many years of peer-to-peer exchanges revealing a critical value of a network of community-based organisation driven by the poor themselves. This alliance creates a synergy of professional and community knowledge and resources, and a platform that enhances productive consultations with local and state, and non-state actors to stimulate decisions and actions for the adoption and implementation of pro- poor policies and practices in community planning and development. The strategic programme pillars include the following: 1. Livelihood; 2. Environmental Protection and Climate Change; 3. Public Health; 4. Partnership Building and Networking; 5. Advocacy The strategies of CODOHSAPA and FEDURP to realise the strategic programme pillars are as follows: 1. Mobilising and organising the urban and rural poor through women-led savings groups and contribution to the local basket fund Fordibambai Trust (FT) and other pro-poor financial instruments to bridge the finance gap and support local initiatives and entrepreneurships; 2. Building and legitimising local knowledge through peer-to-peer learning exchanges, technical capacity building measures and support to indigenous innovations; 3. Building platform and voice through community-led profiling, enumeration and mapping, and collaborative research through which dialogue for policy change on access to social services, financial inclusion, lands and housing rights using the data, resources and collective voice; 4. Supporting ‘incremental, in situ slum upgrading where possible and relocation where necessary’ through the co-production and joint implementation of innovative precedent setting projects to enhance environmental security and climate change adaptation for community resilience; 5. Scaling-up through targeted advocacy and influencing city-wide and national policies, plans and investments, as well as co-investment (with cities and private sector) in viable, pro-poor infrastructure and related investments; and, 6. Mobilising youth in deprived communities and settlements through the youth-led digital Know Your City (KYC) media and data campaigns, to maximise youth participation and inclusion in policy dialogue and other relevant desired actions. CODOHSAPA and FEDURP's core values are as follows: 1. Integrity; 2. Respect for human dignity; 3. Inclusiveness and equity; 4. Openness and accountability; 5. Collaborative partnership; 6. Proactive action; and, 6. Care and compassion