OUR PARTNERS
The Institute fosters concentric circles of scholarship and action—in our University, our city, and the world. It contributes to The New School community by offering courses, sponsoring lectures and events, and supporting extended visits of leading scholars. They engage deeply with New York City, supporting student work with the wide range of groups and communities in the City, and they undertake initiatives to inform and influence public debate and public policy at the national and global level.
SDI is a network of community-based organisations of the urban poor in 32 countries and hundreds of cities and towns across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In each country where SDI has a presence, affiliate organisations come together at the community, city and national level to form federations of the urban poor.
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent research organisation that aims to deliver positive change on a global scale. IIED brings together more than 120 people from diverse backgrounds and countries to deliver high quality research, analysis and impact.
CODOHSAPA is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 2011 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The main aim is to mobilize 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 mobilized 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.
Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI) is the national support NGO formed by Tanzanians with a desire of providing technical and financial assistance to the community living in informal settlements and the Tanzania Urban Poor Federation (TUPF).
CCI, established in 2004, facilitates processes that develop organizational capacity at the local level and promote pro-poor policy and practice in Tanzania urban development focus.
YMCA Liberia seeks to unite and empower young people through self-development and service to their community through support to the Federation of Liberia Urban Poor Savers. YMCA and FOLUPS work as the coordinating body to engage in the co-development and delivery of project activities.
FOLUPS is an organization non-political and not-for-profit establishing slum dwellers around their own savings to improve their livelihood.
The Ghana Federation of the Urban Poor Fund (G-FUND) seeks to grant homeless Ghanaians access to funds in order to provide for themselves. Created in 2010, this fund provides low-income households in Ghana with credit for housing and business development. This funding also improves infrastructure.
PD is a non-governmental organization and operates as the professional support organization to Ghana Alliance of the Urban Poor Partners. PD was incorporated in 2003 to give voice and agency to a predominantly women constituency in Old Fadama who were facing a threat of eviction.
