INITIATIVES

INHAF, through its network of organisations, focuses on the areas of urban and rural housing for low income groups, participatory planning and inclusive development, poverty reduction, livable, people-centred, poor sensitive and environmentally friendly cities and sustainable development. The intention is to facilitate the impact potential of non-governmental actors and civil society towards creating better policies, programmes and institutions.

Urban Poverty

Struggle & Strength: Narratives from streets of an Indian Metropolis

Documentation of Pune based organisations working with the urban poor

POOR DEFINING POVERTY LINE

Pilot effort in Pune to develop a methodology to define the poverty line in a bottom-up way

COVID-19 RELIEF RESPONSE

Response to the covid-19 crisis, March-August 2020

Rapid needs assessment of informal, migrant and unorganised workers during Covid-19.

Understanding immediate and long-term needs of workers in Gujarat-Rajasthan and Maharashtra

Meeting of Building Contractors

Understanding the construction labour situation during the lockdown

Capturing the State of construction workers

Understanding and suggesting improvements to the life and working conditions of construction workers in India

Urban Mobility

Bus Rapid Transit System

Study to examine and provide feedback on the Bus rapid transit system in Pune and Ahmedabad

Environment and Ecology

Way Forward Chennai

Advocacy effort for inclusive and credible responses to urban disasters

Riverse

Reviving and Nurturing Water Ecosystems for cleaner, greener, healthier and more bio-diverse cities and settlements

Slums, Shelter and Affordable Housing

Investment Watch

What are investments doing to the cities, especially the city poor and other low income groups?

Meeting of housing professionals and practitioners

Understanding the challenges of delivering affordable housing

Sampoorna Zhopadpatti Punarvasan

Urban Housing Adequacy Frameworks

Briefing papers on the framework for housing adequacy and how formal efforts are yet to meet adequacy criteria in India

What has the city done to house their poor in the last decade?

An inter-sectoral study of the production of housing by private, public, NGOs and civil society in Pune and Ahmedabad

Study on Shelters of the Homeless

Documenting the shelters for the urban homeless in Ahmedabad

Lakhudi Talvadi: A Case Study

Documenting a case study of a slum redeveloped in-situ under the Gujarat Slum Rehabilitation and Regulations Act

Affordable Rental Housing

Draft recommended guidelines by civil society in response to GoI announcement

PMAY-Urban

Understanding the implementation of PMAY-urban in 8 States across India

Rural Housing and Habitat

Bamboo Log

To demonstrate versatility of bamboo as a material for housing

Understanding Rural Housing and Habitat Programs

A search for evidence based solution for a local, integrated model of rural habitat improvement

PMAY-Gramin (rural)

Efforts at strengthening the implementation of the national rural housing program

Urbanisation and Inclusive Cities

How Inclusive are our Cities

National consultation on implications for the 12th Five year plan from the perspective of the urban poor

Habitat III : A Civil Society Response

Multi-partner effort to develop a civil society perspective, both expert and community led leading up to the Habitat III conference in Quito, 2016

Campaigns for Commission on Urbanisation

Proposal to create a National and Gujarat State commission on Urbanisation

CISOTT-Civil Society Think Tank and CITIURI-Citizen’s Urban Initiative

Creating a network for collaboration on Rethinking, Reassessing and Reformulating responses to India’s urban challenge

National Urban Policy Framework: A Response

Civil society response to the NUPF

Rethinking Cities Webinar Series

Biggest ever initiative on cities and urbanisation

Engaging with Maharashtra's Smart Cities Programme: The Way Forward

Understanding the ground reality of the Smart city project in 8 cities of Maharashtra through the Smart cities coalition

Strengthening Civil Society

Corporate Social Responsibility

Seeing CSR beyond its current role within human settlements.

Education and Practice

Laurie Baker Centennial Celebrations

Social Production of Rural Habitat

Moderated NASA’s competition in 2019

Pune Conclave on Architecture education and practice

Recognising the need to re-evaluate architectural education and practice in India

Open Ideas National Competition

We are an Indian non-profit network, established in 1999, for collaborative thought, knowledge sharing and joint action amongst civil society, professionals and institutions in the human settlements field.

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