Fundación Pro Hábitat

Fundación Pro Hábitat

Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban/Periurban Established: 1992 Staff: 8

 

Subject Areas

Microenterprise: Micro-Credit, Strategic Management, Business Development, Managing Financial Resources, Social Entrepreneurship, Community Financial Institutions, Budgeting and Financial Management, Fundraising

Environment: Water Systems Management, Sewage Management, Sanitation, Energy Resources, Risk Management

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Infrastructure Development, Construction, Building, Planning

Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis and Program Evaluation

Human Rights: Immigration, Poverty, Social Justice, Legal Issues, Equality, Community Action

 

Organization Objectives

Fundación Pro Hábitat works to build the capacity of socially and economically marginalized families to improve their homes and neighborhoods and create healthy, safe, and sustainable communities. Its goals are to:

  • Offer workshops on eco-friendly resource use, including water conservation, management and construction of sanitation systems, and how to maximize local resources
  • Encourage culturally appropriate and sustainable construction resources through the use of local materials and technology
  • Promote urban organizations that create a community of awareness and participation using:
    • Strategic articulation
    • Safe and open spaces for reflection and debate
    • Proactive involvement
  • Incorporate low-income families into state politics so they can exercise their rights to a home and a dignified life
  • Offer credit, small loans, and technical assistance to periurban clients that work in transportation, small business, and handicrafts
  • Integrate community participation, social transparency, gender equality, and solidarity into all projects
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Ujamaa Center - Mombasa

Organization Description

Location: Nyali Setting: Urban/Rural Established: 2001 Staff: 4

 

Subject Areas

Human Rights: Legal Issues, Equality, Environmental Law, Community Action

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Capacity Building, Building Social Capital, Social Responsibility, Community Planning

Environment: Resource Management, Conservation, Environmental Health, Environmental Education, Biodiversity

 

Organization Objectives

Ujamaa is a dynamic community center devoted to mobilizing Kenyan citizens to regain ownership of local natural resources. It also works to challenge the current development paradigm that has historically marginalized the coastal region. Its goals are to:

  • Support community efforts to build a self-sustaining alternative sector in Kenya’s Coast Region
  • Raise the competence of community institutions and their representatives at all levels of the Coast region
  • Develop informational support service in order to spread knowledge and catalyze change
  • Produce publications on human rights issues, consumerism and alternative practices
  • Establish a permanent structure in Kenya which will devote its efforts to the development and growth of alternative systems, spirituality and building social and community capital
  • Defend and extend the rights of communities and their organizations in the Coast region
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Taller Cultural Tinku

Taller Cultural Tinku

Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban Established: 1984 Staff: 20

 

Subject Areas

Microfinance: Marketing, Strategic Business Development, Budgeting and Financial Management, Fundraising

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Social Capital

Health: Public Health, Nutrition

Youth and Education: Complimentary Learning, Child and Adolescent Development, Personal and Professional Development, Teaching

Human Rights: Social Justice, Child Advocacy, Intra-Familial Violence

Women’s Empowerment: Reproductive Rights, Counseling, Gender Equity Strategies

 

Organization Objectives

Tinku’s mission is to improve the quality of life of economically and socially vulnerable women, children, and youth. It aims to achieve this goal through helping women develop microenterprises, offering childcare services, and providing women and children with formal and informal education opportunities. Its goals are to:

  • Offer working women legal, psychological, and healthcare services
  • Provide workshops for mothers on children’s well-being, women’s and children’s rights, and economic capacity building
  • Help women generate income by providing them with training and technical skills in microenterprise development
  • Provide working women’s children with daycare, medical services, and nutritional support
  • Offer educational and extracurricular support for children
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Instituto Para el Desarrollo Humano (IDH) – Bolivia Programa SIDAcción

Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban Established: 1996 Staff: 26

Location: Cochabamba Setting: Urban Established: 1996 Staff: 26

 

Subject Areas

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Radio Communication

Health: HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Epidemiology, Prevention

Youth and Education: Communication, Teaching

Human Rights: Social Justice, Equality

Research: Quantitative/Qualitative Analysis and Program Evaluation, Public Opinion, Bio/Social Mapping

 

Organization Objectives

IDH works to develop social awareness and preventative medicine while promoting gender equity and basic human rights for everyone. The SIDAcción program strives to slow the rate of HIV transmission by distributing basic information on HIV/AIDS and the universal values of solidarity, equity, responsibility, and respect. Its goals are to:

  • Increase knowledge about HIV/AIDS to encourage preventative behaviors, such as regular HIV testing, and to promote the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
  • Improve the attention to and care of PLWHA in healthcare centers through medical, psychological, and juridical support
  • Stimulate the integration of other institutions in providing social responses to HIV/AIDS and encourage individuals, civil society, and the state to take on the responsibility of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention
  • Advocate for access to appropriate, respectful, and confidential medical attention for those living with HIV/AIDS
  • Promote gender equality as vital to prevention
  • Encourage the prevention of HIV transmission through open communication between partners, postponement of sexual relations, mutual fidelity, and the correct use of condoms
  • Research related social, political, economic, and cultural issues that affect the local population
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Strengthening Community Partnership and Empowerment (SCOPE) - Mombasa

Organization Description

Location: Kilifi Setting: Rural Established: 1999 Staff: 5

 

Subject Areas

Health: Infectious Diseases, HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Risk Assessment, Reproductive Health Care and Rights, Disease Prevention, High-Risk Behavior

Community Development: Capacity Building, Community Empowerment, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Community Planning

Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies, Reproductive Rights, Awareness and Prevention, Cooperative Development, Education, Gender-Based Program Analysis

 

Organization Objectives

Strengthening Community Partnership and Empowerment (SCOPE) works to strengthen and educate women and youth in marginalized communities. It seeks to:

  • Increase community awareness and positive behavioral change on issues of reproductive health and other infectious diseases
  • Link community members with appropriate resources, governmental offices and community groups for referrals for legal, health and counseling services
  • Empower community members to address their needs in a self-sustaining manner and to realize their potential
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Mahan Seva Sansthan (MSS)

Mahan Seva Sansthan

Location: Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara Districts, Rajasthan Setting: Rural Established: 1989 Staff: 28

 

Subject Areas

Community Development: Capacity Building, Community Empowerment, Social Responsibility, Food Security, Community Planning

Environment: Resource Management, Environmental Education, Environmental Planning, Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

Microfinance: Agribusiness, Business and the Environment

Health: Public Health, Occupational Health, Nutrition, Health Systems and Policy

Youth and Education: Communication, Social Leadership, Personal and Professional Development

Women’s Empowerment: Gender Equity Strategies, Cooperative Development, Education

 

Organization Objectives

Mahan Seva Sansthan’s mission is to provide basic healthcare for rural communities and to properly conserve and manage natural resources. Its goals are to:

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Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP) - Kakamega

KEEP

Location: Kakamega Forest Setting: Rural Established: 1995 Staff: 35

 

Subject Areas

Environment: Resources, Conservation, Environmental Health, Energy, Soil Erosion, Environmental Education, Environmental Planning

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Infrastructure Development, Planning

Youth and Education: Personal and Professional Development, Teaching, Complimentary Learning

Research: Needs Assessment, Energy and Development, Survey Public Opinion, Markets and Market Failure

 

Organization Objectives

Kakamega Environmental Education Program (KEEP) strives to save one of the last remaining rainforests in Kenya through environmental education, awareness building, development and the implementation of economic alternatives to the exploitation of forest resources. Its goals are to:

  • Promote conservation of the diminishing Kakamega Forest and its indigenous plant and animal species through educational sessions and outreach programs in local primary and secondary schools and throughout the local community
  • Preserve the forest and limit illegal logging activities by promotion and training in energy-saving practices such as fireless cookers, energy-saving stoves, and solar energy
  • Establish, support, and collaborate with other community-based organizations (CBOs) on income-generating projects in forest communities and organizations to ease the pressure on Kakamega Forest caused by unsustainable use of forest resources
  • Promote sustainable ecotourism in Kakamega Forest while educating visitors on the importance of the forest and its conservation
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Seva Mandir

Seva Mandir

Location: Udaipur Setting: Urban Established: 1968 Staff: 342

 

Subject Areas

Microfinance: Fundraising, Business and the Environment, Community Financial Institutions, New Enterprises, Strategic Management, Agribusiness

Health: Infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Nutrition, Reproductive Health Care and Rights, Disease Prevention

Environment: Resource Management, Environmental Education, Environmental Planning, Biodiversity, Conservation

Community Development: Capacity Building, Community Empowerment, Building Social Capital, Social Responsibility, Community Planning

Youth and Education: Communication, Social Leadership, Child and Adolescent Development, Teaching, Complimentary Learning

Women’s Empowerment: Cooperative Development, Gender-Based Program Analysis, Education, Reproductive Rights, Gender Equity Strategies

 

Organization Objectives

Seva Mandir seeks to empower women and the rural poor by promoting self reliance, autonomy, and collective action at the village level. Its goals are to:

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Aajeevika Bureau

Aajeevika Bureau

Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan Setting: Urban Established: 2004 Staff: 12

 

Subject Areas

Human Rights: Poverty, Forced Migration, Legal Issues, Community Action, Social Justice, Equality

Community Development: Community Empowerment, Social Work, Social Responsibility, Communication, Capacity Building

Youth and Education: Complimentary Learning, Child and Adolescent Development, Development Interventions, Social Development, Social Leadership, Personal and Professional Development

 

Organization Objectives

The Aajeevika Bureau works to empower, educate, and advocate for young rural migrants in Udaipur Region. Its goals are to:

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Animal Aid

Animal Aid

Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan Setting: Urban Established: 2002 Staff: 18

 

Subject Areas

Community Development: Social Responsibility, Community Empowerment

Health: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Epidemiology, Animal Welfare, Spay/Neuter Programs

Youth and Education: Social Leadership, Complimentary Learning, Social Development, Development Interventions

 

Organization Objectives

Animal Aid provides medical treatment and care for stray animals in Udaipur and advocates for animal rights throughout India. Its goals are to:

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