About Shelter Associates:

Shelter Associates (SA) is a not-for-profit organization founded by architects and planners in Pune in 1993 aiming towards providing a better quality of life to the urban poor, through facilitation of essential services like water and sanitation and housing in urban slums. Over the years, SA has developed a holistic approach which is innovative, data and technology driven, community centric and inclusive in terms of stakeholder participation.

SA has also pioneered the concept of “Poverty Mapping” using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies and has surveyed and mapped over 2,97,000+ urban slum households to date.  Also, SA has a very robust data management and monitoring system which includes a fully automated web-based system with data mining and visualization work that is in progress.