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.
 Separate Governance under the people institution will have shared values to
build structure, systems, style, staff, skills strategy and sustainability.
 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 under their governance can collaborate with mainstream
for ensuring entitlements and also leverage funds from the supply stream.
 Governance for Habitat Development of poor communities in People
Institutions for the holistic development and also accelerate the pace of poor
moving out of poverty.
 Principles governing Community Swaraj under People Institutions has
people centric, where people will be change agents and they will engage
themselves to build structures which will be modelled for mainstream.
 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
 Through community swaraj people can build a social capital and create a
social governance by which they can give lot of job opportunities and
enhance the livelihood of the people.
 People institutions through social capital manage their own resources
through compressed stabilized earth blocks and by their own material
thereby they can create self-governing aspects.
 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.
 Community swaraj need to responsive to the climate change and 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

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) Action plan for different context under different program with yearly
portfolio in place for facilitating community swaraj in Locations
c) Components namely Financial service, material and supplies and
construction works will be envisaged for Preparatory phase, Formative
Phase and Growth phase for the People Institutions.
d) Setting operational guidelines, systems for implementation of technical
service components
e) 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.
f) 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
g) 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
h) Model for scaling up to the other federation of DHAN Foundation to address
the habitat needs for generations
i) Community Swaraj in form of expansion of leadership space with proper
governance to address the shelter insecurity in place