Celine d’Cruz

Founder member of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Mumbai and Slum Dwellers International (SDI)

Celine d’Cruz is founder member of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Mumbai and Slum Dwellers International (SDI). She is currently Advisor, Federation Building at SDI.

Insights

Group of men standing and talking in front of a building.

Bridging the gap between local, organised communities and city government

Insight, 10 December 2025

Open air laundry place in Mumbai, clothes and pieces of material hanging on strings and air drying.

Principles of community organisation according to Jockin Arputham – and why they are relevant today

Insight, 10 July 2024

Publications

Community Savings: a basic building block in the work of urban poor federations

01 July 2014

Tools for Inclusive Cities: the Roles of Community-Based Engagement and Monitoring in Reducing Poverty

01 June 2014

Gender and urban change

01 April 2013

Mapping, enumerating and surveying informal settlements and cities

01 March 2012

Building homes, changing official approaches: The work of Urban Poor Organizations and their Federations and their contributions to meeting the Millennium Development Goals in urban areas

01 July 2005