sentences:  Financial support for SDI projects, trans-national learning, global advocacy and the Urban Poor Fund International (UPFI) comes from community savings as well as a range of international donors including but not limited to; Swedish Sida, MFA Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Misereor and the Skoll Foundation.As a network of networks of communities of the urban poor, SDI is committed to grassroots solidarity at the global and the national levels.It has partnerships and memoranda of understanding with Habitat for Humanity, and the Association of African Planning Schools.