ABSTRACT
Networks of urban poor communities that are federated across local, national and international levels effectively change policies in favour of the urban poor. Positive change is triggered through numerous forms of collective action: collective production of information; collective innovations improving the technical and financial capacity; collective support of livelihoods and reduction of households’ cost and risk; collective negotiations for leveraging government resources and for removing anti-poor regulatory barriers; and finally, collective learning in precedence-setting pilot projects and replication of successes for example through international exchanges.
