* Documents the radical changes in methodology of one Northern NGO (Homeless International) over twenty years of providing support to organizations of the urban poor across the globe.

* Present extensive excerpts from conventional small-scale grants to collaborative design of new financial products - in so that other agencies may build on the lessons learned.

As poverty becomes increasingly concentrated in urban areas of the developing world, the need to access new sources of finance for slum upgrading, resettlement, and infrastructure provision becomes correspondingly...