The IRCDUC is a community-centric information hub designed to educate and empower the deprived urban communities
Introduction
The primary objective of the centre is to enhance the capacities of the community leaders, enabling them to assert for their right to adequate housing. The centre seeks to collect, collate and disseminate the information about various government laws, policies and schemes that are instrumental in ensuring adequate housing for the deprived urban communities. The centre also engages in facilitating a community-centric policy analysis process to identify the various gaps in the existing policies related to the urban housing programme. It further evolves pro-poor policy recommendations by producing evidence based citizens report. The resource centre is also a platform for the leaders of the deprived urban communities to share their issues, exchange ideas and reflect on probable strategies that can enable them to assert for the right to adequate housing and urban spaces. Our Strategies:
Enhancing the capacities of community based leaders
Dissemination of Information by producing innovative Audio-Visual Materials
Conduct People’s Audit Process of Urban Housing Policies and evolve evidence based citizens report
Launching of Media Campaigns to generate awareness and bring into the popular discourse, the issues of the deprived urban communities among the policy makers and the general public
Our Areas of Work:
We work in the cities of Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore in the state of Tamilnadu
Bragging rights
IRCDUC comprises of policy researchers with over 10 years of experience working with the deprived urban communities supports the work of the IRCDUC. The extensive work of IRCDUC has enabled people from over 16 localities to avail their right to housing. Our people’s audit report and the online campaign has resulted in availing basic amenities including education, health care, water facilities and roads services for over 15,500 displaced urban communities in Chennai. The evidence-based report produced has resulted in bringing forth policy changes in the arena of housing rights.
