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Activities

Promoting, organizing and strengthening the organization
At the moment the structure of INHAF is decentralizing into regional chapters and are been launched the INHAF Regional Chapter.

The aim of this Regional Chapter, through Regional Consultations, is to bring together regional and local authorities, the private sector, community representatives, NGOs and civil society and other stakeholders from the region to discuss issues related to “Habitat”.

Also Regional Consultations helps in increasing the number of members of the platform and consequently in supporting its Advocacy.

The Regional Consultation stands for three days. All the grassroots organization deliberate on issues affecting that particularly region concerning the habitat sector.

- In 2002 there has been the Regional Consultation for the South, in Trivandrum, Kerala. The issues discussed concerned housing schemes, housing finances, housing technology, municipal budget for housing, policy and national policy, documentation and best practise.

- In the North they had a similar consultation but it was not able to pick up. It has been spent a lot of time in consultation and preparation but few result, almost a failure.

- The East chapter was lunched in 2003 and hosted in the Gram Vikas campus near Berhampur in Orissa.

In the South chapter the response was really vibrant and mature, in the East the response has been not so mature and also there have been languages problems.

To lunch a Regional Chapter the staffs of INHAF first work out a list of organizations working in some aspects concerning housing in that region, through various sources. Using an hosting organization, for example Gram Vikas in the East, they send a format to those organization asking what kind of issues should INHAF carry on in that region, a feed back.

On the base of the feedbacks they prepare an Agenda for the three days consultation. They identify some relevant topics and they invited some expert to talk about them.

During the consultation are organized working group discussions that will formulate recommendation and way forward on one of these topics.

In this way is decided the Regional Chapter Agenda for the next 2-3 years. Anjali underline how it takes a long time preparing the field, around six month, before a Consultation take place. She feels that the voluntary sector in the South is much more alive and dynamic us compare to the North which is more politically complex, and this explains the differences in response in the two consultations.

For the next year they are planning to lunch a new consultation in the Northeast.

Activity base, thematic work, and Constituency support
The respond of the INHAF member to the activities proposed by the organization however is not homogeneous. Some of the member will respond only on specific issues. So once is individuated a specific issue than is organized a working group according to the respond from the members.

INHAF way of operate is through partner organizations.