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1 Knowledge Brief
 Knowledge Brief

Building on the edifice of the social capital built by the people organisations, poor communities can build
their governance to address the shelter needs. Shelter needs vary based on the context (Rural / Urban /
Tribal / Coastal), hence there is a need for innovative products and services suiting the context. There is
an immense need for specialized institutions for housing under the mother federation for deepening the
activities and catering for more members. People institutions should collaborate with mainstream for
ensuring entitlements and also leverage funds from the supply stream.

Governance for Habitat Development of poor communities in People Institutions accelerates the pace of
poor moving out of poverty. People Institutions are effective tools for exercising scale of operations in
procuring materials and supplies as they are already successful in health, insurance and livelihood
inclusion. Peer influence of the community will bring attitudinal change in adopting the cost effective
technologies at an affordable cost

Community Swaraj can also be expressed in sourcing materials for construction within the gamut of 5 to
10 km which will build the local / village economy and it should overcome climate change challenges by
using relevant and appropriate cost-effective technologies and should not limit itself to the costs alone.
Community swaraj will be expressed in having appropriate mix of using the traditional wisdom in using
the local materials and also the modern relevant technology which supports the concept of liveable,
lovable and affordability. There is possibility need to fulfill the shelter needs at an affordable cost when
it is embedded in people institution.
 Way forward and Declarations
Workshop on Use of Alternative Technologies in Housing the Ultra Poor to build
Community Swaraj

1)    Consultative process with the Program/ Regions/ Location will be done to
establish Federation HOPE at location level resulting in milestones for building
better habitats.

2)    Action plan for different context under different program with yearly portfolio
in place for facilitating community swaraj in Locations

3. Action plan for different context under different program with yearly portfolio in
place for facilitating community swaraj in Locations

4. We will collaborate with mainstream to enable them to organise the poor for
availing the housing entitlements due and showcase cost effective technologies. 

5. We will establish a Housing Model for scaling up to address the habitat needs of
poor for generations
முன்னோக்கி செல்வதற்கான பிரகடனங்கள் 

வடில்லா
ீ ஏழைகளுக்கு மாற்றுத் தொழில்நுட்பங்களைப் பயன்படுத்தி
வடு
ீ கட்டி சமூக தன்னாட்சி மலர : கருத்துப்பட்டறை

1.கூட்டமைப்பு HOPE க்கான வலுவான ஆளுகை அமைப்பு,

செயல்பாட்டிற்கான மைல்கற்களை அமைக்க வட்டாரம், திட்டம், மண்டலம் அளவில்
ஆலோசனை தேவை.

2. வட்டாரங்களில் சமூக சுயராஜ்யம்   ஏற்பட, சூழலுக்கேற்ப வடுகள்

ீ   கட்ட ஆண்டு
திட்டத்தை. வரையறுப்போம்

3.வட்டாரங்களில் சமூக சுய ஆட்சி மேம்பட காலம் மற்றும் சூழலை ஒட்டி திட்ட
வாரியாக வாழ்விட தேவைகளை பூர்த்தி செய்ய ஆண்டு திட்டத்தை
வரையறுப்போம் 

4.வடில்லா
ீ ஏழைகளுக்கு வட்டு
ீ உரிமைகளைப் பெற, அவர்களை ஒருங்கிணைக்கவும்,
செலவு குறைந்த தொழில்நுட்பங்களைக் காட்சிப்படுத்தவும் மத்திய மாநில அரசுடன்
ஒத்துழைப்போம்.
5.ஏழை மக்களின் தலைமுறைகளுக்கான வசிப்பிடத் தேவைகளை பூர்த்தி
செய்வதற்காக நாம் ஒரு வட்டு
ீ மாதிரியை நிறுவுவோம்.

Proceedings of the Workshop on Alternative Technologies for the Ultrapoor to Build Community
Swaraj

Prof Manu Santhanam. IIT-Chennai in his speech shared about the need for improved construction
materials and also pointed about new technologies available for house construction with no additional
cost. He also highlighted the PMAY- Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and ASHA policy.

Ar A R Vishnu Priya informed that the National Institute of Rural Development has a unique space for
rural interventions and works with various types of institutions. She spoke about the contemporary
issues in housing and also the sustainable housing as the solution to the issues. She also displayed a
pictorial presentation of various sustainable housing technologies like Filler slab roofing, Oxide flooring,
and jail openings, etc which could be considered by DHAN HOPE.

Ar Satprem Maini from Auroville Earth Institute in his talk showcased the features of Compressed Earth
Stabilized blocks and its relevance in building community Swaraj. It empowers people to manage their
own resources, build social capital in implementing the construction of house, empowers people to
produce their own material and above all it creates self-reliance. His philosophy of seeing the earth as a
spirt and not as a formless material without consciousness.

Ar Godwin, Principal (Academics), CARE School of Planning and Architecture shared his living experience
in shaping his house and echoed “Eco-friendly Building technologies leads towards a Self-reliant Living.
He emphasized the need for living in tune with Nature. He shared the choices available in the building
technologies for the Foundation, Columns, Roof, Wall and Wall finish with estimates. He stressed on the
self-reliant values namely valuing the local wisdom, climate, culture, initiative to construct, participate
and facilitate with a constant search towards sustainability

Padmashri Dr G Shankar, Founder, Habitat Technology Group shared his experiences on Sustainable
Futures. He said one has to go beyond the cost and economies highlighting the ill effects of the use of
cement and steel in construction in particular on the environment. He highlighted the need for valuing
the aspirations of family members while constructing the house.

While sharing his experience on sustainable housing, Mr. Annavayal Kaalimuthu explained how his
entire house was built within 35 days using red soil, around 15,000 bricks, kind of stick and 35 pillars. His
initiative was appreciated by many and he was also interviewed by media. We need to build these kinds
of houses to bring our tradition back to the society, he said.

In his lead paper presentation, Dr.A.Madhan kumar, CEO, DHAN HOPE reiterated that there is an
immense need to fulfil shelter needs of the community at an affordable cost. Contextualising
Community Swaraj calls for having shared values in building structure, systems, style, staff, skills,
strategy, and sustainability in addressing their shelter insecurity. Our community should join together
and explore embracing alternative housing technologies to improve their quality and standard of living.
Evidence shows the positive impact of microfinance on poverty reduction as it relates to the first six out
of seven Millennium Goals which shows the SHG’s have been successful in social, financial and livelihood
intermediation, he said.

Following the presentations, discussion was held to take it forward which highlighted the need for the
people institutions to avail economies through scale in sourcing materials for the poor communities,
mainstream institutions to adopt alternative technologies in implementation of the Prime Minister Awas
Yojana ( PMAY) in Madurai District and with Engineers from People Institutions to prepare an actjon
plan for the next three years on the support for finance, materials and supplies and in construction of
houses in different context across thematic programs.
 Build to Build Community Swaraj
DHAN HOPE
1. Introduction: What poor communities can do for themselves has resulted in building social capital
to take responsibility for alleviating themselves from poverty. This is Community Swaraj. In
graduating their lives through mutuality, poor have demonstrated financial inclusion, health
inclusion and livelihood inclusion. There is an immense need to fulfil their shelter needs at an
affordable cost. Contextualising Community Swaraj calls for having shared values in building
structure, systems, style, staff, skills, strategy, sustainability in addressing their shelter insecurity.
Building on the learnings of the inclusion and impact, poor communities need to evolve through
participation by reviewing development options in embracing alternative housing technologies to
improve their quality and standard of living.

2. Macro Scenario: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, under Article 25 (1) states that housing
is the right for everyone. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has
underlined that the right to adequate housing as an expression of Freedom. Sustainable
Development Goals (11) have called for ensuring access for all to adequate, safe and affordable
housing and basic services and upgrade slums by 2030. In reality, over a billion people are not
adequately housed. United Nations once estimated that 10 million people worldwide die each year
from conditions related to substandard housing. At the start of the millennium, more than one
billion people lived in inadequate housing and that number has been growing rapidly, particularly in
poor countries. (Brednoord J., & vabn Lindert, P (2010).

According to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) programme, 88 million
people out of 1.2 billion Indians, lived below the poverty line of $1.25 in 2018–19 who are
vulnerable to have a home of their choice. India's housing shortage is estimated to be as high as 40
million units. Other studies indicate that more than 200 million people are living in acutely poor
housing conditions. The housing condition in India in general is deplorable. The number of houseless
households and the average occupancy rate (2.77) per room in India are increasing at an alarming
rate. 40% of households, five people have to share a room in the name of a house. Rural houses lack
protection to the residents against wind, rain and cold and infested with insects, rodents etc which
causes health problems. They incur high recurring cost which the poor cannot afford.

The recent landslide disaster in Idukki district of Kerala affected the poor and exposed the
vulnerabilities of the housing construction draining their valuable resource. It also highlighted the
gaps in housing policies or implementation, accessing to resources, in infrastructure and facilities
and poor monitoring system at policy level and at the technical level it revealed the poor improper
usage of available technology, blind usage of conventional (modern) materials, unawareness of cost
reduction technologies, lack of trained and skilled labourers which were echoed in her thesis
“Sustainable-Affordable Housing for the Poor in Kerala by Deep G Nair (2015).
 Studies on housing for poor are meagre in number worldwide. The available studies show that low-
income families’ poor access to quality housing is attributed to multiple factors such as inability to
provide proof or regular income sources, inadequate information on mortgage choices, mistrust of
the banking system to provide housing credit etc., (Lalwani Merchant & Venkatachalam, 2010). Low-
income families due to their vulnerability in livelihood are subject to repayment affordability where
at the beginning they were affordable and later due to market, health and interest rate risk they
could not repay or take longer time as quoted. Low-income families take longer time to complete
the house construction than other economic classes (Gan & Hill ,2009). Poor communities are
incurring recurring cost due to the vulnerabilities despite spending the hard-earned resources due to
poor construction and at the mercy of contractors or masons who give sugar coating rather than
concentrating on basic fundamentals of construction.

Given the magnitude of the housing shortage and budgetary constraints of both the Central and
State Governments, it is amply clear that many stakeholders have to anchor the goal of building
better habitats in particular the primary stakeholders i.e. poor communities.

3. Graduation in People Institutions: In the last years, the Self-Help Group (SHG) centred
microfinance approach has been increasingly acknowledged as an important strategy to improve the
livelihood security of poor households in India. SHGs typically consist of 10 to 20 members who
collectively engage in regular savings, lending and other initiatives. Collective SHGs come together
to promote a network structure called federations. Federations are registered legal bodies. The SHGs
and their federations have shown to be beneficial in enhancing and expanding existing livelihoods
options by offering necessary skill training, technical know-how and by providing cost effective
credit (GIZ, 2015).

Evidence shows the positive impact of microfinance on poverty reduction as it relates to the first six
out of seven Millennium Goals. There is an overwhelming amount of evidence substantiating a
beneficial effect on increases in income, reductions in vulnerabilities (Khandker 2005; Wright, 2000;
Zaman, 2000). Data on effect of microfinance on housing are limited but the three identified studies
conducted in Rwanda, Bangladesh and Indonesia suggest positive impacts of micro-credit and micro-
savings on housing (Brannen, 2010). This shows the SHG’s have been successful in social , financial
and livelihood intermediation.

Apart from these studies, there is no research evidence on effectiveness of microfinance on housing.
The present policies of the government are guided by inadequate data on the homeless. Following
have not been studied and documented in the Indian context-factors attributing to the lack of access to
housing by the poor, effectiveness and efficacy of government programmes on housing for poor,
penetration of housing credit among the low-income families, gaps in housing credit for the poor,
effectiveness of SHG centred microfinance on housing for poor etc.

A.Ganga Warrier et al (2019) proposed eight broad criteria in evaluating a housing construction
technology namely cost, time, structural characteristic, envelope characteristic, maintenance and
 repair, operation sustainability and user preferences. This calls for region/ location wise initatives to
shortlist the appropriate technology relevant to climate, local requirements, locally available
resources, occupant preferences, cultural issues, time, cost, sustainability etc. Trade off analysis
among various criteria is called for in choosing the right technology.

The review of literature reveals that there are many studies from the supply side to addressing the
housing needs of the low-income families, but those on demand side are rather scarce. As on micro
finance has been the only resort for the incremental housing of poor. There are no concrete cases of
poor communities addressing their shelter needs on their own.

. 4. Contextual Challenges: The contextual challenges in accessing the housing needs as below:

a. In the rural, non-availability of clear title, difficulty in accessing construction inputs, less appreciation
and poor communication/ common infrastructures are the challenges
b. For coastal apart from the above, high cost of construction due to soil conditions/ erosions and
occurrence of frequent natural disasters
c. For urban the high cost of land and labor, archaic building regulatory rules like Floor Space Index
[FSI], set back area etc., are the issues.
d. In tribal areas with inadequate communication and common infrastructures like electricity, sanitation,
drinking water, shortage of labor and other inputs for construction and less appreciation are the
challenges

4. DHAN Collective : DHAN Foundation works with peoples’ institutions promoted under different
themes, namely community banking, conservation of water resources, coastal conservation and
livelihood Promotion and rain-fed farming. They have established their operational sustainability in
their operation through micro finance, conservation and Livelihood activities for the poor. As on their
reach is of 2.5 million working in 14 states.

It has envisaged Specialized People institutions for community empowerment to address the poor
communities needs in the field of bridge finance (KDFS), SUHAM (health services), Mutuals
(Insurance services), Jeevidham ( Livelihoods), Documentation ( identity) and habitat services –
( Financial and technical services). There is a systematic attempt to transform community banking
 (micro finance) initiatives of People Institutions into Civic institution valuing their graduation of poor
communities needs. This takes the form of Federation Collective at location level.

5. Emergence of DHAN HOPE

DHAN HOPE, a Section 8 Company promoted by poor communities through their share capital
aiming at building housing eco system for poor focusing on habitat development of poor
communities. Its mission is to offer shelter, security of poor through credit, technical expertise
training, research and policy advocacy. The Company works with 1.5 million poor families in India
through facilitating entitlements from the Government, funding the construction of individual house,
incremental housing and Habitat development by using appropriate technology. A network of 62,723
Self Help groups catering to 1.5 million poor families is our target group. It has more than 300
federations which are sustainable.

Model of DHAN HOPE :

Our models are evolved from mothering development innovations through piloting and
experimentation in to thematic institutions on reaching scale and sustainability. All the models under
different themes stems from organizing the unorganized poor communities in to demand stream for
ensuring entitlements and leverage resources based on their own resources to decide their growth
phases. Our experiments in the field of community banking has resulted in Community financing
model of building 100 self-sustainable federations and in tank fed agriculture program has resulted in
new model of river basin approach for conserving water effectively. Our developmental model banks
on the nested institutions with community as center for our program and activities. (www.dhan.org)

Each idea is nurtured to transform into program and later it matures as an institution. As on, we have
DHAN Kalanjiam Foundation, DHAN Vayalagam Foundation, Small Millet Foundation, Panchayat
Foundation, The DHAN academy which have established themselves as thematic organization. We
have the following institutions at program stage namely Coastal Conservation and Livelihood
promotion, Rainfed farming development progam, Information and Communication Technology for
poor and cross cutting institutions in the field of health, development financing, housing financing,
social security through mutuality programs, publications wing called as reflective publication trust
and business initiatives through Kalanjiam Thoilagam Limited catering to all people institutions
promoted by thematic organisations.

The present proposition aims at building on this edifice of social capital to address the shelter needs
of poor communities.
 It stresses on incremental graduation based on their socio-economic level namely survival,
subsistence and self-employed. Its products include drinking water connection, roof water harvesting,
solar light, roof garden and solar light. Our work as recognized by the Asia Pacific Housing Forum by
giving “Habitat for Humanity India Innovation and Impact Award 2019” award for its significant
work in fulfilling the shelter security needs of Low-income communities through ' community
banking Model by providing access to Credit and building capabilities through training, research and
policy advocacy.

6. Structure
Fig : SPICE INSTIUTIONS at DHAN COLLECTIVE

The above structure shows the different levels of specialised institutions are built on the edifice of social
capital namely at Village level primarily banking on the Self-Help Groups and at block level Federation
Hope with the facilitation at the Central level HOPE for facilitation of financial and technical services. The
below picture shows the structure of governance for the federation HOPE emanating from the Primary
groups i.e. SHG’s

6. Objectives of Promotion of Federation HOPE

6.1. To address the habitat and housing needs of the poor communities in a longer run at the location
level.

6.2. To mainstream collaboration and linkages for entitlements.

6.3. To build technical expertise on Housing aspects

6.4. To accelerate the pace of sustainability at federation level through housing initatives resulting in
people moving out of poverty.

6.5. To show the Community Swaraj matters for the holistic development of poor members

6.3. To work out the financial and technical feasibility of setting up of Housing Construction Collective to
make it sustainable

Towards the fulfilment of the prospects, inception document for the location will be prepared to know
the habitat needs with the present mode of operations to understand the gaps. This will also highlight
the gaps in resources mobilised from external and Kalanjiam system and the quality of men and
materials used. It will be prepared within one month facilitated by DHAN HOPE. Towards this the outline
will be prepared. Requirement of resources (men, material and equipment) required for servicing the
needs will be assessed based on the problem definition and to work out the cost of housing the required
resources at the field.

8. Community Swaraj at DHAN HOPE

What poor communities can do for themselves has resulted in building social capital to take responsibility
for alleviating themselves from poverty. This is Community Swaraj. In graduating their lives through
mutuality, poor have demonstrated financial inclusion, health inclusion and livelihood inclusion. There is
an immense need to fulfil their civic needs in particular shelter needs at an affordable cost.
Contextualising Community Swaraj calls for having shared values in building structure, systems, style,
staff, skills, strategy, sustainability in addressing their shelter insecurity. Building on the learnings of the
inclusion and impact, poor communities need to evolve through participation by reviewing development
options in embracing alternative housing technologies to improve their quality and standard of living.

At Periyakulam with prospective Role model in life and Habitat Development

Communities

At Gangai vattara Kalanjiam At Gangai Vattara Kalanjiam : Consolidation

Housing governance system has to be at place who will appraise the services of the housing construction
collective entity at the location/ region. Under this repository of masons, plumbers, electricians,
carpenter, painters, wholesalers and deals will be maintained for effective service of the poor. Housing
Engineer and Housing Associates will be at place. The federation will provide counselling services to the
families that take up housing activity. The counselling will focus on subjects such as sourcing the funds,
freezing the design and cost, plan approval (legal approval with encumbrances certificate), timely
completion (occupancy rate vs Constructed), accounting for housing (recording of expenditure
management), fund management at management level, site services during and after construction and
facilitation of material supplies. Building on the experience of the housing portfolio managed by the
location / region, sustainability of housing team will be at 25% at first year, 75% at second year and
100% at third year. Scope for amortization can start from fourth year for experimentation at the next
location / region.
9.0 Principles of building Community Swaraj through Federation HOPE : Poor households tend to
build gradually and incrementally, often building only one room at a time. This process of ‘progressive
housing’ or ‘incremental housing’, as it is referred to in literature, is thought to be compatible with micro
finance which comprises loans based on the size of the portfolio. The range of portfolio required to
address the needs is from Rs.50000 to 150000 at market rates of interest. Considering the need, it would
be desirable to have a product covering fully the need or partly at concessional rates of interest which
would reduce their burden significantly. The following principles guide the maximization of the capacity
of different actors in building the resilience

a. People Centric: Empower communities by enhancing capacities through collective exploration,

learning and reflection on community driven solutions. Creating information and knowledge
about who they are and what their challenges are, form the foundation of collective identity and
ongoing deliberations for exploring alternatives and seeking solutions.

b. From Observers to Change agents : Move from being passive victims of exclusion to active
participants in building their habitat

c. From the Receiver to Engagement: From Negotiation with formal city and state institutions to
improve the habitat. To undertake dialogue with city officials, technical professionals, researchers
and others to examine the potential for value addition in policy, finance, design and materials
with the field realities .

d. From Vulnerability to Protected / Guarded : Reducing the vulnerability of residents to

environmental risks and stresses to enhance their quality of life by supporting sites and basic
services. ( Community toilet, Sanitation, Linking individual houses to UGD, Roof water
harvesting)
.
e. From insecure tenure of Secured Tenure: Enhancing the personal security of residents in the
face of threats of displacement to secured place with collective action.

f. Building Resilient infrastructure : Support the community social structure and economic
livelihood of residents through extension of dwellings for enhancing the income .

g. Leveraging from the Mainstream: Government allots houses for the poor based on their
socioeconomic criteria to construct on their own. This requires bridge financing to manage the
release of funds from the government and also to bridge the inflationary costs.

10. Components for Servicing the Poor Communities :

Considering the need for people institutions as their housing portfolio is about 30 % to 40 %, primarily
going for upgradation, construction of toilet maintenance and toilet , there is an immense need for
providing technical service where they are exploited. Poor communities are not aware of the quality
materials and their economies, hence they are at the mercy of contractors and mason who take their
cake out of poor hard earned money. Hence, the need for providing the technical service which has
scope for returns at multiple levels namely member, group, location and at central level.

10.1.Development Goals for the Technical Service: Under this developmental goals, the areas we will
work on the

10.2. Technical Goals for Technical Services: Under this financial and technical counseling for design and
budget freeze, cost reduction (actual cost / market rate), plan approval (legal approval with
encumbrances certificate), timely completion ( occupancy rate vs Constructed), accounting for housing
( recording of expenditure management), fund management at management level, site services during
and after construction and facilitation of material supplies

10.3. Integration with DHAN Collective System: This proposition is mooted based on the social capital
built at the grassroots by the thematic organisations. It requires collaboration and space for the
infrastructure to be housed and has to be part of the review operations.

10.4. Construction Technologies Manual: Based on the learning and experiences of different
technological applications of different models catering to socio economic categories and different
contextual terrains manual can be brought out for scaling up.

11.0. Phases of Building Federation HOPE

Table 1 : Phases for Building Federation HOPE

Sl.No Functions Preparatory Phase Formative Phase Growth Phase

    Pre One Year 2 Year 3 Year
Rental / Leasing / Toilet
Support
Assistance towards
Upgradation
Financial Financial inclusion of members construction of houses
1 support / and
Assistance ( PMAY / PMRY/ Panchayat, ensuring entitlements for
maintenance
Loan sought / Potential ultra-poor
members )

2 Materials & Demand assessment for
Supplies Material and Supplies.
Identification of brands and
rates based on scale with
corporates.
Regular Supply of Cement, Steel and etc.
materials and will be supplied for
supplies ( cement and construction upgradation
steel) with direct and toilet together will be
collaboration with of constructed
 Demonstration of Supply of
quality materials and supplies
at better cost through
collective purchases
Assessment of potential
members who have scope for
Housing entitlements ( BPL
List)
Rooster of Masons,
Carpenters, Plumbers, Painters
and Electricians.
Undertaking upgradation and
Construction toilet work with cost effective
3 Common infrastructure
of Building technologies
Resettlement for urban
dwellers
Exposures to model houses
@afforadable cost based on
context
Corporates /
mainstream at the
best rates
Accounting for Housing
Construction
Setting up of housing
technologies manual
unit comprising of
based on field realities
Construction
Associate (Mason),
Construction of 50%
Housing Associate,
houses for the members
Engineer
of their housing
Engagement with
portfoliop
Mainstream
Institutions ( DRDA
Experimentation of eco
and Banks
homes and exploring for
scaling up
Construction of 25%
of the houses and 50
% of upgradation
Saturation– Open services like community
defecation free kitchen
villages, panchayats, Construction of biogas
block, districts plants to have biogas
Saturation of toilet
stoves under community
construction in
infrastructure
villages

Demonstration of
alternative Land pooling,Social
technologies housing, Cluster Housing
through Public and
private partnership

Training of
Inception report in place Governance  Building Knowledge and
( Annexure) highlighting the Registration of skills at multiple levels to
Project phase of action / portfolio Federation know the art of the
4 Management based on context and Hope technology
categories Systems and Process Federation Hope will be
for streamlining in place with
materials and sustainability
supplies
12.0. Portfolio for Experimentation at Regions under different Programs :

DHAN HOPE strives to experiment the phases proposed under different programmes for the coming
three years

Table 2 : Portfolio for Seeding Federation HOPE at five Regions

Programm
Sl.No Particulars I Year II Year III Year Total
e
    ( In lakhs)
650. 771. 600.
Kalanjiam
00 00 00 2,021.00
125. 250. 150.
1 Financial Portfolio Vayalagam
00 00 00 525.00
200. 275. 200.
Coastal
00 00 00 675.00
1,2 1,6 2,1
Total No. Members Benefit
50 05 50 5,005.00
975. 1,296. 950. 3,221.
  Total  
00 00 00 00
10. 22. 35.
Kalanjiam
86 00 00 67.86
Material and Supplies 5. 5. 10.
2 Vayalagam
Portfolio 00 00 00 20.00
5. 5. 10.
Coastal
00 00 00 20.00
16,2 22,0 35,6 74,0
Total No. Members Benefit
86 76 82 44
20. 32. 35,737. 107.
  Total  
86 00 00 86
4,500. 6,000. 8,000.
Kalanjiam
00 00 00 18,500.00
Construction 250. 500. 750.
3 Vayalagam
Portfolio 00 00 00 1,500.00
250. 500. 750.
Coastal
00 00 00 1,500.00
5 7 1,0
Total No. Members Benefit
00 00 00 2,200
Total
5,000.00 7,700.00 10,500.00 21,500.00

1.0 Way forward :

 a) Strong Governance system for Federation HOPE to be in place which needs consultation at
program, region and location level to set the above milestones for action.

b) Setting operational guidelines, systems for implementation of technical service components

c) Integration with mainstream to prove the need for social capital to succeed in cost reduction
and effective management of the entitlements given to ultra poor through experimentation.

d) Enhancing sense of safety, security through locally feasible technology for fulfilling the
incremental needs of poor communities improving the physical condition of the house relevant
to climate and local requirements

e) c. Improved housing condition results in graduation at social economic level of poor members
resulting in self-worth and pride garnering more social, economic security, educational security
and health security

f) Model for scaling up to the other federation of DHAN Foundation to address the habitat needs
for generations

g) Community Swaraj in form of expansion of leadership space with proper governance to address
the shelter insecurity in place

14.0. Lead for discussion with Participants for Building Community Swaraj

a. To evolve a structure required for addressing their shelter needs for generations.
b. To assess the skills and staff required for manning the shelter requirements.
c. To evolve procedures and process for operationalising the best alternative technological practices
d. To explore activities required for sustaining for fulfilling the habitat needs of poor communities
e. To imbibe and examine the feasibility of adoption of alternative technologies to build their self-
reliance.
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Program Schedule

Workshop on
Use of Alternative Technologies in Housing the Poor to build Community Swaraj
Time Topic Resource person

9.45 a.m. to 9.55 a.m. Reflection and lighting the lamp  

9.55 a.m to 10.00 a.m Welcome and Introduction Sri P Srinivasan

10.00 a.m to 10.10 a.m Chief Guest Address Dr Manu Santhanam,

HOD, Department of Civil

Engineering, IIT Chennai

10.10 a.m. to 10.20 a.m. Lead paper Presentation:

Build to Build Community Swaraj Dr A. Madhan kumar,

CEO, DHAN HOPE

10.20 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. Sustainable building technologies and Ar. Vishnupriya, RTP, CIAT,
Planning technologies NIRD & PR , Hyderabad

11.00 a.m. to 11.45 a.m. Earth based materials and Ar. Satprem Maini Director
technologies for a sustainable future. Auroville Earth Institute,

11.45 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. “Experience sharing of adoption of Ar. Godwin, CARE School of
alternative technologies to house the Architecture , Trichy
poor” 

12.30 p.m. to 1.15 p.m. Sustainable habitats Padmashree Dr G Shankar,

Habitat Technology Group
1.15 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. Lunch  

2.00 p.m. to 2.45 p.m.  “Experience sharing of adoption of Sri.Annavayal Kalimuthu,

alternative technologies to house the Tirumanagalam, Madurai
poor” 
2.45 p.m.  to 4.30 p.m. Working out the action plan: Participants
Knowledge brief and Declarations

Date 28.10.21, Thursday

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Contact Details of Resource person:

S. NO Resource person Photos

1 Dr MANU SANTHANAM
Professor, HOD
Department of Civil Engineering
IIT Madras, Chennai – 600036, India
Email ID :manus@iitm.ac.in / manus@civil.iitm.ac.in
+91 44 2257 4283 / (91)9710490310
https://civil.iitm.ac.in/faculty/manus/ MANU
 
2 Ar Vishnupriya R Nair
National Institute of Rural Development and
Panchayati Raj
NIRDPR Road, Rajendra Nagar Mandal
Hyderabad, Telangana 500030, INDIA

3 Ar Satprem Maïni
Director Auroville Earth Institute
Master of Architecture – Lyon, France
Post Graduate Diploma in Earthen Architecture –
Grenoble, France
Representative for Asia – UNESCO Chair Earthen
Architecture

Auroshilpam, Auroville 605 101 – T.N. India

Tel.: +91 (0) 413 – 262 3330 / 262 3064
Fax: +91 (0) 413 – 262 2886
Email: earthinstitute@auroville.org.in
Web: http://www.earth-auroville.com
4 Dr. Prof. J GODWIN EMMANUEL,
Principal, C.A.R.E. School of Architecture
27, Thayanur, Trichy – 620009. Tamilnadu,
Email : thedivine.la@gmail.com
Contact number : 9003011812

5 Padmasri Dr G Shankar,
Founder, Habitat Technology Group,
Grandhasala Rd, Near Sree Saraswathi Temple,
Poojapura, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695012
https://www.habitattechnologygroup.org/
Contact number: 9847061414

6 Sri Annavayal Kalimuthu,

Thangalachery, ( near Tirumangalam)
Thirumangalam, Madurai -625 706
Contact number : 9943595340
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=V4jBFgOrwFM
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Participant Details

Total Number of Participants: 41

Duration of the event : 10.00 a.m to 4.30 p.m

Abstract :

Table 1 : Abstract List of Participants

S.NO Category Offline Online People Leader/ Others Total

Staff Member
1 DHAN Staff 6 2 8
2 People Staff 5 0 5
3 Leaders 12 4 16
4 Guests 1 8 9
5 DRDA ( Overseer) 4 0 4
6 Others 4 0 4
Total 32 14 46

Table 2 : List of Participants ( Offline)

S.No Name of the person Organisation Location

1 Er Kanagavalli DHAN Foundation Madurai
2 Dr A Madhan Kumar DHAN HOPE MAdurai
3 Thiru S Prabhakaran Kadamalai Kalanjia Vatttara Sangam Kadamalai, Theni Dt
4 Smt Muthulakshmi Bodi Vatttara Kalanjiam Bodi
5 Smt Lakshmi Bodi Vattara Kalanjiam Bodi
6 Thiru Habil Rahuman The Dhan Academy Malaipatti, Madurai
7 Thiru S Kalimuthu Farmer, Thangalacheri Tirumangalam
8 Er M Arikumar Madurai Rural Region Madurai
9 Thiru P Srinivasan Central Office, DHAN Foundation Madurai
10 Thiru G Loganathan DHAN HOPE , Madurai Madurai
11 Er B Saravana Kumar SUHAM Madurai
12 Smt Malini Thottam , Madurai
13 Smt Jothi Vaigai Vattara Kalanjiam , Appantirupathi
14 Thiru M Guna Dindigul Region Dindigul
15 Smt B Bhuvana Solai Vattara Kalanjiam Sholavandan
16 Smt Mangaikarasi Solai Vattara Kalnjiam Sholavandan
17 Smt Pandieeswari Solai Vattara Kalanjiam Sholavandan
18 Smt R Meena Solai Vattara Kalanjiam Sholavandan
19 Smt Durgadevi Theni Region Theni
20 Smt Devi Theni Region Theni
21 Smt Lakshmi Chinnamannur Vattara Kalnjiam Chinnmannur
 22 Smt Amma muthu Chinnamannnur Vattara Kalanjiam Chinnamannur
23 Thiru Mohammed Madurai West Block Vadipattti
24 Thiru M Mohan Madurai West Panchayat Madurai
25 Smt Saraswathy Kadamalai Vattara kalanjiam Kadamalai
26 Smt Anuhalli Kadamalai Vattara Kalanjiam KAdamalai
27 Thiru V Poompandi Vadipatti Union Vadipatti
28 Smt Sumatni Madurai East Block Madurai East
29 Thiru Durai Kannan Madurai North Block Madurai
30 Smt Selvarani Melur Block Madurai
31 Thiru Murgeasan Public Thirumangalam
32 Smt Sumathi Public Thirumangalam
33 Smt Annapoorani KDFS Madurai

Table 3 : ( Online )

34 Dr Manu Santhanam IIT Chennai Chennai

35 Ar Vishnupriya NIRD Hyderabad
36 Ar Satprem Auroville Pondicherry
37 Dr Godwin CARE, Architecture Trichy
38 Dr Shankar Habitat Technology Group Trivandrum
39 Thiru Prem Peermedu Vattara Kalanjiam Peermedu
40 Smt Sudharani Patil Aland Pragati Kalanjian Okkut Aland
41 Smt Navaratnam Peermedu Vattara Kalanjiam Peermedu
42 Thiru Alice Cluster President, PVK Peemedu
43 Smt Usha Cluster Vice President, PVK Peermedu
44 Smt Vasantha Cluster Secretary – PVK Peermedu
45 Er Marimuthu Theni Region Theni
46 Thiru Pavitheran CARE Trichy