Affordable Housing Institute: Partners and Clients
Affordable Homes Partnership
Ireland
www.ahp.ie
The Affordable Homes Partnership (AHP) is a State agency, which co-ordinates and promotes the delivery of affordable homes. The AHP provides services on behalf of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and local authorities throughout the Republic of Ireland.
Ashoka
USA
www.ashoka.org
Ashoka is a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving the world’s most urgent social problems. Ashoka develops models for collaboration and designs infrastructure needed to advance the field of social entrepreneurship and the citizen sector.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
USA
www.gatesfoundation.org
Belief that every life has equal value is at the core of the foundation's work, which is organized into three main program areas, each with a specific focus: Global Development, Global Health, and United States Program. The Foundation works with a range of partners, including nonprofits, businesses, and governments to achieve its goals.
Baker Tilly
UK
www.bakertilly.co.uk
Baker Tilly is UK’s 7th largest firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers, and is also AHI's UK financial and tax advisor.
Development Innovations Group
USA
www.developinnovations.com
The Development Innovations Group (DIG) is a private, international firm committed
to fostering innovative solutions in the fields of financial services for the poor, urban and community services, and fund management. DIG works in developing and transition economies, as well as in post-emergency environments. Our key partners include financial sector institutions, government agencies, donor organizations, NGOs, and the private sector.
GYODER
Turkey
www.gyoder.org.tr
The Development Innovations Group (DIG) is a private, international firm committed
to fostering innovative solutions in the fields of financial services for the poor, urban and community services, and fund management. DIG works in developing and transition economies, as well as in post-emergency environments. Our key partners include financial sector institutions, government agencies, donor organizations, NGOs, and the private sector.
Finmark Trust
South Africa: Marshalltown
The mission of FinMark Trust is summarised in its slogan, "Making Financial Markets Work for the Poor". In pursuit of this objective, FinMark Trust aims to promote and support policy and institutional development towards the objective of increasing access to financial services by the un- and under-banked of southern Africa (South Africa and the SACU countries, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia).
SEWA Bank
India
www.sewa.org/services/bank.asp
SEWA Bank is largest of the cooperative organization under the umbrella of SEWA, the Self Employed Womens' Assocation, a trade union of poor, self-employed women workers & small business owners without regular salaried employment or welfare benefits. The bank is owned by SEWA members as share holders; policies are formulated by their own elected Board of women workers. The Bank is professionally run by qualified managers accountable to the Board. Today there are 93,000 active depositers.
SDl
South Africa: Cape Town
Slum/shack Dwellers International (SDI) an international people’s organization which represents member federations of urban poor and homeless savings groups from countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The SDI Federations have grown to challenge conventional development thinking and to develop new, community-directed precedents for poverty reduction.