Affiliate Countries

Secretariat	Angola	Argentina
Bolivia	Brazil	Cambodia
Colombia	D.R.C.	East Timor
Egypt	Ghana	Haiti
Honduras	India	Indonesia
Kenya	Liberia	Malawi
Mozambique	Namibia	Nepal
Nigeria	Pakistan	Philippines
Sierra Leone	South Africa	Sri Lanka
Swaziland	Tanzania	Thailand
Uganda	Venezuela	Vietnam
Zambia	Zimbabawe

Bolivia

Savings groups and organized informal settlement communities in Oruro and Cochabamba were visited by SDI exchange delegations from Brazil and South Africa beginning in 2009. The groups are supported by Red de Acción Comunitaria. In Oruro, the groups coordinate many of their activities as a city-wide network. Women-led community-based groups also have links to the multi-stakeholder Permanent Forum on Housing (FOPEVI), which successfully campaigned for the right to housing in Bolivia's new constitution. Engagements with senior government officials around a new housing policy are ongoing, as are project-based links with municipal officials in both cities.

Contact:	NGO: Maria Eugenia Torrico
Email:	red.accion.comunitaria@gmail.com

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