Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is an independent international non-profit Coalition of organisations and individuals working in the field of human settlements. Originally known as ‘The NGO Committee on Human Settlements’, it was organized in 1976 as a nongovernmental counterpart to the UN Commission on Human Settlements, and both emerged from the process of convening the first UN Habitat conference at Vancouver (Canada), in 1976.

Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit, ecumenical Christian ministry that builds with people in need regardless of race or religion. Through volunteer labor and donations of money and materials, Habitat builds and rehabilitates simple, decent houses with the help of the homeowner families.

Founded in 1976, Groupe de recherche et d'echanges technologiques (GRET) is an international development NGO, governed by French law, which acts from work on the ground all the way up influencing policy, with the aim of providing durable and innovative answers to the challenges of poverty and inequalities.

The Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya (FIDA Kenya) is a non-profit, non-partisan, and non-governmental membership organization, committed to the creation of a society that is free of all forms of discrimination against women through the provision of legal aid, women's rights monitoring, advocacy, education and referral. Membership to FIDA Kenya is open to Kenyan women lawyers and women law students.

The organization was started in 1985 after the 3rd UN Conference on Women, which was held in Nairobi, Kenya.

Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) is a coalition of Asian professionals, NGOs and community organizations committed to finding ways to make change in the countries where their work is rooted - change that goes along with the particular realities of their own cultures, politics and ways of doing things.

Protimos was founded by a group of international lawyers, in London in 2002. Its network grew in succeeding years, and it now includes sister organisations in Lesotho, South Africa and USA.

Protimos works by creating local legal teams who can offer the full range of legal processes, making those processes accessible to impoverished communities who thus become enabled to assert their rights over their resources, in particular where those concern land usage and related issues. Their work includes a range of community legal empowerment projects.

SDI is a network of community-based organisations of the urban poor in 32 countries and hundreds of cities and towns across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In each country where SDI has a presence, affiliate organisations come together at the community, city and national level to form federations of the urban poor. These federations share specific methodologies, which are enumerated below.