1. We Effects work on housing and habitat Initiated 1987 in Uruguay, through HSB and Riksbyggen. South Africa and Zimbabwe in late 90´s. Today in 14 countries, 25 partners. Always in partnership with local organisations. Rights-based and cooperative housing.

2. Our cooperative housing model No pre-savings (the members contribute with labour) The cooperatives are managed by the members Cooperative ownership Members are trained to manage a cooperative and to construct houses Members construct the houses Finalized houses are distributed through a raffle

3. Cooperative housing - Advantages Costs are reduced by 30% through members own construction Adequate houses, not shelters. Poor people get access to affordable adequate housing. Its sustainable – members cannot sell their house on the open market, so they stay. This creates community. The cooperative is run democratically – empowers the members. The financing institute only deals with the cooperative –one entity, instead of several individuals.

5. Housing and Habitat Experiences of housing cooperatives in development cooperation 5

6. Adequate housing is a human right The States are responsible

7. We Effects work on housing and habitat Initiated 1987 in Uruguay South Africa and Zimbabwe in late 90´s. Today in 14 countries. Always in partnership with local organisations.

8. Cooperatives – what are they? We support cooperative organisation and cooperative housing A cooperative is a social enterprise aiming at achieving benefits for the members Cooperatives combine economic and democratic development Each member has one vote Cooperatives are open to everyone and run democratically

9. Our cooperative housing model No pre-savings (the members contribute with labour) The cooperatives are managed by the members Cooperative ownership Members are trained to manage a cooperative and to construct houses Members construct the houses Finalized houses are distributed through a raffle

10. Demanding this right from the State -legislation and public finance

11. Cooperative housing - Advantages Costs are reduced by 30% through members own construction Adequate houses, not shelters. Poor people get access to affordable adequate housing. Its sustainable – members cannot sell their house on the open market, so they stay. This creates community. The cooperative is run democratically – empowers the members. The financing institute only deals with the cooperative –one entity, instead of several individuals.

12. The cooperative members construct the houses

13. Cooperative meeting in a housing cooperative in El Salvador

14. Faniz Jirón, president of housing cooperative Juntando Manos, in Nicaragua and now also president of the cooperative housing federation of Nicaragua

15. Some results: Approved popular housing laws in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Paraguay. Housing is now a human right according to constitution in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 1,963 houses constructed in Latin America and 672 houses constructed by partners in our programmes in Africa during 2010-2012. 1,300 households obtained security of tenure in Metro Manila, Philippines. 5 water service cooperatives established. We Effect has presented this model in WUF Vancouver, Nanjing, Rio de Janeiro and Neapels. FUCVAM Uruguay received UN WUF award 2012 ”best practices around expansion of a successful model”