Volume 6
Examples of Innovative Social Organizations
and Practices in the South

Published in partnership with:
Third World Network (TWN)

Basic needs and social services

• Community-based health programmes
• Brazilian citizens taking action against hunger and deprivation
• Disaster preparedness and management innovations in the Philippines
• The Pani Panchayat: Water and equity
• The SLU-SVP Housing Project
• Housing cooperatives in Uruguay
• Institutionalizing voluntarism: The University of the Philippines experience

Education and information

• Databanking and research for popular education
• Pioneering gender awareness in the academe 
• The Other India Bookstore and Press 
• Theater for education and liberation 
• Alternative news agency as an instrument of social change 
• The Education Forum experience in alternative education

Social rights and advocacy

• Consumer action in a Third World context 
• Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation 
• Defending indigenous women's rights 
• Innovative policy advocacy for indigenous peoples in the Philippines