Shelter Associates is an India based NGO working for the urban poor by designing and implementing data driven solutions in Sanitation and Social Housing.

1. ‘Enhancing
lives of the
urban poor’

2. Founded by Architects, Shelter Associates is a Civil Society
Organization that uses data and technology to provide unique
solutions in the sectors of Housing, Sanitation and Health since 1994
to improve the living conditions of the urban poor.
OUR VERTICALS
Mapping and Surveys
Social Housing
Sanitation
Health
Plus Code applications
Shelter Associates (SA)

3. Updated July 2021
Pune, Kolhapur,
Thane, Navi-
Mumbai, Pimpri-
Chinchwad, Panvel,
Sangli
Impacting
5,00,000+
Individuals directly and indirectly
Facilitation construction of
26,330+
Toilets in slum households
Mapped & Surveyed
3,00,000+
slum households
Impacted
9,000+
persons through slum rehabilitation
Generated and assigned
66,000+
Plus codes for digital addresses
COVID 19 Vaccination
18,000+
Individual
Use of Eco friendly
menstruation by
2,200+
Women and girls
Outreach in the slums of Maharashtra

4. 2015
HUDCO Award
2016
TIMES NOW
2017
NASSCOM
Social Innovation
2017
WADe Asia
award
2018
FICCI
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
Slum architect of India, 2005 Google Earth Hero, 2009 UN Habitat, 2020

5. PM appreciates SA’s
Covid-relief efforts
Recent Awards

6. DATA &
TECHNOLOGY
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
APPROACH
COST-SHARING
SA’s model of social development

7. Using android based
systems for
Infrastructure
mapping & Household
surveys
Use of Google
Earth (GE) images
as base maps
Data is the foundation of Shelter Associates where most of the work revolves around mapping-
based technologies that respond to ground realities. SA pioneered the use of Geographic
Information System (GIS) technology & Google Earth for poverty mapping in the late 90’s
Creating spatial data
& integrating on GIS
with Plus Codes
assignment
Data-driven development

8. Co-creating data with Communities and ULBs

9. Validation of spatial data by ULB

10. Data validation and linking data
from SA’s website to ULBs’ websites
and bringing it in public domain
The Municipal Corporations of Pune,
Pimpri-Chinchwad, Kolhapur, Thane,
Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra, India)
have linked their website with
Shelter Associates' spatial data.
SA’s OHOT toolkits have been uploaded on
the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs’
website and available for downloading
Bringing Data into Public Domain

12. COMMON SANITATION WOES
ill-health, disability, old age
Safety concerns and embarrassment for
Adolescents, menstruating girls and women in the house
Unclean and poorly maintained
community toilets, habits
This is common to
4.2 billion people
who do not have
safely managed
sanitation services

13. Creating Spatial Data using
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) & Google
Earth
Mobilizing
communities, across all
age groups & genders
Delivering household
toilets through a cost
sharing model
The ‘One Home One Toilet’ model launched in 2013 has impacted 1.5 lakh slum dwellers
Components
of the OHOT
Model
OHOT recognizes the
importance of
individual sanitation
and thus innovates
beyond the SBM model
to not only facilitate
better toilet
installation but also
sustained toilet usage.
One Home One Toilet (OHOT)

14. Use of spatial data for systematically mobilizing
communities by trained volunteers

15. Mobilizing communities to create awareness and bring about behavioral change related to sanitation
Mobilizing communities

16. Hand-washing Menstrual hygiene
Environment Waste segregation
Awareness workshops

17. Families take extra efforts in beautifying their home toilets
Over 1.5 lakh slum dwellers across 7 cities have been impacted
by this initiative
Proud families with their finished toilets

18. A Toilet Completion Factsheet is shared with donors, allowing for a transparent and traceable use of funds
HH 263- facilitated
with household toilet
Donor Name
Transparency & Accountability

19. 200 toilets by SA
2% Household toilets 70% Household toilets
CTB
Open
Defecation
HH using
CTB
Toilet
by SA
Measuring impact through spatial data

20. 93% toilets are used by all family members
Symptoms of urinary tract infection (UTI) have significantly declined in the respondents belonging to
intervention group – from 23% to 13%
Percentage of People who used to avoid using the community toilet reduced from 21% to 6%
100% beneficiaries reported using of soap
for hand washing after defecation
52% of the households who got a toilet upgraded their houses either partially or totally.
Percentage of people practicing open
defecation reduced from 30% to 0.8%
Third-Party impact assessment by Gokhale Institute

21. PUNE PIMPRI-
CHINCHWAD
NAVI-MUMBAI KOLHAPUR THANE PANVEL
SA is the only NGO to have facilitated HH toilets across cities on
a large scale
Drainage
Toilet Facilitation Percentages on the basis of SA’s Intervention slums across respective cities – Updated August 2021
13% to 46%
37% to 68% 17% to 29%
23% to 37% 16% to 47%
18% to 39%
8% to 57% 29% to 39%
25% to 67% 5% to 47%
28% to 60%
90% Existing
coverage
Impact of One Home One Toilet project across cities

22. ….Still, there is a critical need for thousands of HH toilets
1.5 lakh people are living a life of dignity…

23. A Digital Location Addressing Solution for
the Urban Poor
A step ahead with Plus codes

24. M6XF+CJH
or
LOCAL
ADDRESS
FULL
ADDRESS
Plus code address for
Kolhapur Municipal Corporation
M6XF+CJH Kolhapur, Maharashtra
(4+3 digits is roughly 3m x 3m)
Plus codes to improve accessibility

25. Difficulties faced by not having a navigable address
Plus Codes for every house allow
slum residents to access basic
and emergency services.
Access to basic infrastructural
facilities within the slum like CTBs,
water standposts, manholes, etc.
ULBs will be able to provide facilities
like water, sanitation, electricity,
etc. to every household accurately.
Faster and accurate delivery of services

26. Before road Ingestion in
google map
After road Ingestion in
google map

27. SA segregated slum data
household-wise with assigned
Plus Codes so that KMC could
easily locate the houses which
have do not have a water meter.
SA also supported KMC to
integrate this data with their
system.
- HH having water
meter connection
- HH not having water
meter connection
- CTBs
Use of Plus codes for tracking water meters in Kolhapur

28. Plus Codes and spatial data are being used for tracking the progress of vaccination to ensure no
one is left behind.
Households in which no members had taken even a
single dose went down from 216 to 6 in 6 months.
- All members have taken both doses
- No member has taken even a single
dose
Name Gender Age Vaccination
status
XXXXX
F 60 2nd dose
YYYYY
M 30 1st dose
WWWW
F 30 2nd dose
UUUUU
F 28 None
7J8PM6JC+2
772
Plus codes for vaccination monitoring

29. HHs that don’t give Solid waste HHs that give Solid waste
Tracking & Monitoring SW collection & segregation

30. GRANULAR SPATIAL
DATA
CITY-WIDE
PERSPECTIVE
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER
ENGAGEMENT
SANJAY NAGAR,
MIRAJ
INDIRA NAGAR
GHARKUL
DURGA NAGAR
INDIRA
NAGAR,
SANGLI
SANJAY NAGAR
PATRA CHAWL
ABA
DHOTRE
MEHTA
R
SAMAJ
SANGLI
MIRAJ
THE APPROACH BY SHELTER ASSOCIATES
SOCIAL HOUSING

31. Completed Housing Projects
Dattawadi, 1996 Kamkgar putala, 1997
IHSDP – Sangli Miraj, 2008

32. AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT
BONDRE NAGAR, KOLHAPUR

33. • Bondre Nagar Slum rehabilitation as proposed
by the PMAY: Creating extra housing stock and
merging 2 slums.
• At the edge of the city with low land rates,
there was no demand for extra housing stock in
this region.
• The families rejected the proposal.
• SA intervened with its Community-led design
development approach.
From a top down approach to a community led design approach
Live Slum Redevelopment project at Bondre Nagar, Kolhapur

34. SA has taken efforts to bridge the gap between people’s
requirements and government rules and guidelines.
Various design options, scaled versions of the plan and physical
models were discussed with the community.
We followed rigorous discussions before finalizing a plan for
design.
Scaled version of the plan
Designing with communities

35. The project has involved all the stakeholders in
each step of the process: ensuring
participation, feedback from the all concerned
parties.
Regular meetings with -
Local Councillors
PMAY Cell, KMC officials, Kolhapur Municipal
Commissioner
The finalization of the design option was done
after approval from the Community, PMAY, and
KMC officials
Multi-stakeholder Approach: Urban Local Body
Meeting with Kolhapur Municipal Commissioner
Meeting with Mr. Satej Patil
Consultations with ULB

36. • With guidance from Shelter Associates,
the community has gained exposure for
building a relation with various
government officials who are responsible
for approving the scheme.
• SA has encouraged the community’s
participation in different meetings with
officials to put forward their opinions.
A multistakeholder approach

37. Ground Floor Plan: Cluster Development First Floor Plan: Cluster Development
Section A Section B
Cluster plan and Sections

38. People have shown pro-activeness and great
strength as a community. They have :
•Formed a Co-Operative Housing Society finalized
with 11 Members in the Committee.
•Opened individual bank accounts
•Agreed for equal distribution and sharing of the
land.
•Participated actively in the design process.
•Shown readiness to take a loan.
•Agreed to take responsibility of their transit
accommodation and have spent around 35000-
50000/- for constructing these houses.
People’s efforts making this a totally BLC project

39. Access road
Bondre Nagar – from slum to a society

40. THANK YOU!