Community Resource Organisation is a non-profit (NPO), public benefit (PBO) organisation that supports poor, yet organised community networks in South Africa around their own efforts to effect grassroots development within their communities. The networks are organised around community savings rituals, horizontal learning exchanges and local research practices that prepares them for local activism and locally driven development initiatives in all of the focus areas listed above. The network has a presence in 5 of 9 provinces with membership in excess of 7000 of which 95 percent are women.