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In Colombia, over 24,610,844 persons are below the poverty line and around 9.654.722 persons are considered to be destitute. They are precisely the population groups that are in urgent need to ensure minimum conditions for their lives. They build up in marginal sectors - both legally and illegally - without contemplating the minimum required safety conditions. Furthermore, we have checked out that there are –average - 2.520.298 homes with qualitative deficit. Houses present deficiencies in their structure, public services and overcrowding. We work to try and obtain innovative answers from an inclusive business pattern, articulating community dynamics with private undertakings which manufacture construction materials, with the support of the finance sector and the national government, succeeding in the development of sustainable housing solutions. This whole process allows the private undertaking to rapidly and efficiently penetrate a massive market, increasing its profitability levels, and reducing costs, for the benefit of communities and families with poor income.

Families improve their houses and their life quality; have access to construction materials, finance services and high-quality technical advice, at competitive prices, in accordance with government standards and regulations. Furthermore, income is generated; productive circuits are activated thus achieving organization and strength as communities through their participation and development.

digitaljump.org`s aim is to establish community media-centers to make underdeveloped parts of cities more liveable. The DJ MCs are intended to by inclusive venues for working and recreation. We want to close the digital gap (between social milieus & generations) with help of a know-how transfer between "digital natives" and "digital visitors" - media professionals and amateurs. By improving their media literacy, the participants shall be enabled to live independently and self-determined.

The innovation lies in our methodology of working, and the approach we have to empowerment through the process of knowledge exchange. The current trend in development organisations is to place emphasis on the knowledge that can be contributed by technical experts from the west, passing this knowledge on to communities in developing countries. Engage for Development however equally values of all the kinds of knowledge held by all the parties involved in a development project. We find the optimum solution for successful and sustainable development to be in the mutual exchange of this knowledge among the individuals and groups concerned.
Using our approach volunteers with training, technical skills and resources from the western world work hand-in-hand with community members who possess local expertise and greater practical skills. The aim is to enable the correct settings for knowledge exchange between these two groups to take place in optimal, on-site conditions. The overall objective is therefore both development and education. The locals gain technical abilities and on-site support to empower them to take ownership over their project. The volunteers develop their practical skills, on-site experience in the development sector and an appreciation of the environmental and social issues related to engineering projects.

Phnom Penh is developing fast. New high rises, luxury apartments and condominiums are erected almost daily and beginning to attract the bigger regional players in development. At the same the lack of an urban masterplan, few building controls and a worrying trend of forced evictions of poorer communities is raising many questions about the sustainability of the city’s growth. As Phnom Penh gentrifies, the city centre is becoming a playground for the rich and powerful, while the poor are pushed to the capital’s unserviced outskirts.

The fate of The Building is a metaphor for the future of Cambodia’s capital. Will human rights and architectural heritage be respected, or will short-term profit-making lead the way?

The Building was constructed in the 1960s as part of Vann Molyvann's ambitious plan for the Bassac area. Originally developed as low cost housing for civil servants in the Ministry of Culture, it is now home to some 2,200 residents and retains the artistic edge of its initial inhabitants.

Through this project, we assert that all of Phnom Penh's inhabitants have an equal right to the city. We will show that The Building can be rehabilitated, and more than that, turned into a flagship urban development. We will address issues on different levels: social, heritage, economic, political. The result will be a strategy with a strong vision that can guide negotiations between the different stakeholders.

Mexico City, with a population of over 20 million citizens is nowadays one of the largest cities in the planet facing great environmental and social challenges. Half of the world’s population lives in large cities facing similar challenges. While developed countries are approaching their environmental challenges by redesigning the cities infrastructure and applying new and expensive ecotechnologies developing countries are faced with a local economy that cannot afford the implementation of such an expensive infrastructure and are facing very similar environmental and social problems such as extreme poverty, pollution and exhaustion of resources such as water, land, food and energy, all within an atmosphere of social disintegration and apathy.The model of an Ecovillage can be applied to urban scenarios by creating sustainable neighborhoods which we name in Spanish as Ecobarrios. An Ecobarrio can be defined as a group or community of people holding a common vision and organized in such a manner with an objective of a long term betterment of the quality of life and in harmony with the environment. As the definition clearly states, the essence of an Ecobarrio is community. A community sensitized and moving forward towards a new life paradigm, one of responsible consumption, alternative social dynamics, food sustainability, alternative healing, implementation of echotechonologies and a new local economy.

By integrating low-income areas and creating a wiki-web-based system that ensures liability on online maps reflecting the real geography compared to the official one illustrated by main satellite imaged maps and popular online mapping services, Rede Jovem intends to: - create a database with information regarding what exists and happens within low-income communities and slums in order to facilitate and stimulate the access to products and services offered locally by the residents of those areas; - increase the community´s local knowledge and appreciation by its residents and to widen low-income youth’s critical perception; - create geographic references enabling slums and low-income areas residents to use online map services, increasing their self-esteem and belonging sensation.; - reduce social depths by demystifying the slums, known by public opinion only as violence and marginality centers; - stimulate content production by residents of participant slums, transforming them into actors of social change. - foster the construction of an identity sense and empower low-income youth from Brazil by showing all life, commerce, education, entertainment among other good things that happens daily on the slums from Rio, Brazil and so many others from all parts of the globe. In the Stockholm Challenge jury words: "Wikimapa The grass roots approach with young people and their familiar ICT environment is a unique aspect of the project. It has the high potential of making "invisible" areas more visible. It does so by distributing knowledge".

Our idea is to empower the climate victims to raise their voices and pressurize the Government through the local elected bodies to ensure sustainable solutions to climate displacement in Bangladesh. It requires a right-based housing, land and properties recovery through capital investment instead of the ongoing superficial and cosmetic relief operation.

It promotes the victim-driven host family approach rather than the traditional concentration camp approach pursued by the Government in re-settlement projects for several decades. We have witnessed that the former have been substantially sustainable in spite of limitations and bottlenecks while the later have failed in many cases even after eating up hills of resources.

It plays a catalytic role in demonstrating effective and efficient model of sustainable solutions to climate displacement in Bangladesh covering 20% of the target beneficiaries. The rest 80% of the job is required to be undertaken by the Government agencies. We remain standby to empower the climate victims and provide them with back-up support as and when required.

It requires disaster risk reduction as an integral and inbuilt mechanism while managing any housing, land and property issues.

Finally, it promotes an institution of the victims so that they can shoulder the responsibility of responding to their own problems through leveraging Government agencies and other service providers. It recognizes the latent talents of the victim community and creates a favorable working condition so that the victim community can confront the prevailing socio-ec

It combines an approach of human rights education, research, fact-finding, advocacy and network building to promote awareness on human rights and the law, to empower communities, and to hold governments accountable.

HLRN’s role in monitoring human rights violations and developing tools to monitor human rights is critical. These tools enable affected communities and individuals as well as relevant civil society actors to promote legal security of tenure and the rights to property, housing and land. While promoting the human rights to adequate housing and land, HLRN focuses on women and marginalised groups such as Dalits, tribals, children, and nomadic populations.

HLRN finds that the rights to adequate housing and land, including ensuring security and dignity for all, as a powerful entry point to realize property rights for women, men and communities.

HLRN is working dedicatedly towards making accountability mechanisms accessible to civil society in India to secure human rights. It is very important in the present global context for local groups to have access to national and international recourse and redressal mechanisms.

HLRN believes in developing, wherever possible, partnerships with the government at different levels to promote the realisation of human rights.

HLRN assists grassroots development, human rights and environmental organizations working with the landless and homeless with the legal and analytical framework in developing courses of action and solutions. HLRN’s strength lies in its capability of bringing together groups working on diverse issues like women’s rights, children’s rights, Dalit rights and the rights of the urban and rural poor on the basis of our work on issues of homelessness and landlessness.

The both communities threatened with eviction, as well as communities that are currently ‘safe’ but vulnerable to eviction. This ensures that forced evictions continue to be challenged and exposed as human rights violations, while practical alternatives to improving tenure security are developed simultaneously. All activities are designed to lend support to and build the skills of communities to assert their rights, and to build the capacity of national non-profit organizations (NGOs) that support of these communities.

The HRTF Secretariat, its member organizations will work together to bring a diverse range of skills and expertise into the implementation of the project. With our shared aims and guiding principles, and different but complementary skill-base, HRTF is well-placed to deliver the activities and expected results of the proposed project. This collaboration will ensure that our project adopts both a local and international perspective and develops strategies and solutions deriving from a local, national, regional and international level. We will achieve this by engaging with local affected communities through awareness-raising activities and through building the capacities of community-based organizations (CBOs) and national NGOs. We envision that building this foundation at the grass roots will create the knowledge and skills necessary to enable our direct target groups to mobilize at the local and at the national levels where they will eventually create the necessary pressure on policy makers responsible for legal reform in Cambodia.

Now more than ever, the talk about health care in the United States is front page news almost every day. As the potential impact the changes to the nation's health care system begins to unfold, there is widespread fear and uncertainty.

With this in mind, we created Local Hospital to strengthen the relationship between hospitals and the communities they serve by helping individuals increase their preparedness for a medical emergency, while educating them about what to expect in the event of a hospital stay.

Should a medical emergency occur, the way in which an individual reacts may save lives. Similarly, the ways in which a community interacts with its local hospitals over time may save the emergency health care system. If communities can be taught to reduce the number of “non-emergency” hospital visits, while at the same time encouraging very sick individuals to seek immediate medical attention, their hospitals will be better prepared to provide more efficient, higher-quality service in the long run.

At Local Hospital, community residents can easily locate the hospitals nearest them to get an overview of the emergency and basic medical services each facility offers. Although not intended as a substitute for 9-1-1, Local Hospital prepares residents for the eventuality of a medical emergency.

Should a patient require a hospital visit, Local Hospital provides further information about the experience, including who they may meet, what may happen during treatment, and what to expect when they leave. In this way, we hope to reduce the uncertainty and fear that comes with any hospital stay.

Local Hospital is designed to educate communities about the ways in which their local hospitals can best meet their health care needs, and how these same communities can take an active role in making their neighborhood medical facilities more sustainable. By doing so, everyone involved can focus on returning the patient to a healthy and productive lifestyle.

Our idea is to empower the climate victims to raise their voices and pressurize the Government through the local elected bodies to ensure sustainable solutions to climate displacement in Bangladesh. It requires a right-based housing, land and properties recovery through capital investment instead of the ongoing superficial and cosmetic relief operation.

It promotes the victim-driven host family approach rather than the traditional concentration camp approach pursued by the Government in re-settlement projects for several decades. We have witnessed that the former have been substantially sustainable in spite of limitations and bottlenecks while the later have failed in many cases even after eating up hills of resources.

It plays a catalytic role in demonstrating effective and efficient model of sustainable solutions to climate displacement in Bangladesh covering 20% of the target beneficiaries. The rest 80% of the job is required to be undertaken by the Government agencies. We remain standby to empower the climate victims and provide them with back-up support as and when required.

It requires disaster risk reduction as an integral and inbuilt mechanism while managing any housing, land and property issues.

Finally, it promotes an institution of the victims so that they can shoulder the responsibility of responding to their own problems through leveraging Government agencies and other service providers. It recognizes the latent talents of the victim community and creates a favorable working condition so that the victim community can confront the prevailing socio-economic deprivation and exploitation in disguise of democracy.

In Community Stewards, we’ve taken the best methods from organizing and advocacy and built a new model of engaging communities in land-use, development and community planning and change.

People often ask why we – a land conservancy – are involved in urban policy and community organizing at all. We got involved in cities a few years ago after realizing that we need to create great communities in order for people to choose to live within our existing cities instead of converting our lands into ever-more sprawling development. It is quite unusual for a conservation group to do serious community organizing around local community development issues.

Second, our program employs an interesting and unusual balance between advocacy and community organizing. Most environmental organizations stick to traditional advocacy – building lists of members to do “action alerts” via email as needed. We have committed to building deep relationships with community members and creating a two-way street. We ask our members to advocate for our priorities, but we also commit to supporting their projects – like community gardens, new transit stops or other community priorities – and working with them over the long term.

Finally, we use innovative tactics in unexpected situations. For example, we used campaign tactics and went door-to-door to 1000 houses in three underserved neighborhoods in Tacoma (low income and without good access to healthy food) to invite people to our Community Garden Summit – and our conversations and invitations led many people from those neighborhoods to attend and benefit from the workshops.

Atlanta is better known for its traffic, highways, and congestion than for its active lifestyles. Our streets and sidewalks are in dangerous disrepair, we lack a bike network of lanes, rates of bicycling and walking remain low for a metro population our size, and obesity levels continue to rise.

The most often-cited barrier to cycling among Atlantans is the perception that it is unsafe - bicycling on city streets is unfortunately still viewed as the action of a brave minority.

Atlanta Streets Alive seeks to shift that dynamic. This project makes bicycling accessible for that bike-friendly but not currently cycling majority by limiting interaction with cars – the thing new bike riders fear the most! Overcoming this barrier will help expand the biking community and grow into a recurring monthly program.

By taking public space and shifting it to purely nonmotorized modes of transportation for five hours on a Sunday afternoon, we will shift the public perception of our streets from funnels for cars to move through as quickly as possible to publicly held, democratic spaces for citizens to use self-powered transportation modes, while engaging with their communities, interacting with neighbors and friends, learning new things and even participating in public art projects.

Georgia is also struggling with a severe obesity epidemic and a lack of physical activity among many populations, partly due to our very limited greenspace. ASA will provide opportunities to get active and develop a culture around active transportation that is currently lacking.

While ciclovias are gaining popularity in the U.S., there are few examples of successful ongoing ciclovias in the Southeast. Our project aims to become the largest and most inclusive ciclovia in the region and to leverage the project to break down barriers to active transportation while generating support for policy changes and greater public investments in bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

Bountiful Brookline (BB) offers an outside the box (and ground) perspective to engage our community in the where, how and what of creating a local food system. An urban edge community adjacent to Boston, open land in Brookline is at a premium, making it logistically and financially implausible to develop a single site community farm. Unlike traditional community farms, BB is systematically engaging the whole community; its land, buildings and people to develop a community food system. Through seasonal public events, growing projects and community partnerships we are celebrating the bountiful human and material resources within our community to grow a strong and community based local food system holistically. Nurturing the needs and interests of new and seasoned gardeners and local food enthusiasts as well as public agencies and local institutions Bountiful Brookline has in its second season won the support of a broad cross section of the community.

At its heart, Bountiful Brookline represents the best of community, partnering with town agencies, community organizations and individuals on issues of food security, health and youth engagement. We are cultivating fun and accessible opportunities to collaborate and cooperate as we strengthen our community. Bountiful Brookline’s broad appeal is our ability to bring the many players to the table to find common ground - to participate and unify around a core issue of fresh,healthy food for a better community.