The program emphasizes sharing, learning, broadening of knowledge, capacity building by and for urban poor development groups in the region.

These workshops provide a forum for groups in the region to respond to identified trends, needs and new processes.  It is necessary to examine new issues and explore possible follow up actions. 

For each of the issues identified,  the arrangement for this component would be that representatives from successful groups in the region will be invited to:

In preparation for subsequent actions the issue based workshops will also make recommendations on the issue involved,  

The workshops thus have an additional function to the previous regional project based workshops under TAP 1: bringing groups together who have experience, consolidating and building on the process and developing activity which will strengthen its direction. 
Subsequent actions need not necessarily be supported by TAP where external financial and technical support is possible. 
Specialists in the Issue of the workshop will coordinate each workshop in cooperation with the TAP Project Coordinator.

Workshops 2000 - 1

Urban Poor East Asia, 
Prep Meeting
M. Hosaka
Seoul   KOREA  July 2000

Urban Resource Centres
Arif Hasan
Karachi  PAKISTAN  Nov 2000
More HERE 

Urban Poor Community
Improvement Facility
Somsook Boonyabancha
Bangkok  THAILAND   Nov-Dec 2000
More HERE

Urban Poor South Asia
Prafulla Pradahan  Arif Hasan
Kathmandu  NEPAL  Dec 2000

Understanding Asian Cities
Arif Hasan;  S Boonyabancha
Hanoi,  VIETNAM  March 2001

Regional Urban Poor Fund
M. Hosaka / F.  Fernandes
Cebu, PHILIPPINES  Jan 200-1 
More Here

Solid Waste Management
Adnan Aliani  / Prof John Silas
SURABAYA INDONESIA  MARCH 2001 
MORE HERE

Young Professionals Changing Curriculum & Institutions
Arif Hasan / Prof John Silas /
S Boonyabancha
Chiang Mai THAILAND  April 2001

Contact ACHR SEC or the Organizers named above for more information

ACHR will continue to facilitate intra-regional exchange visits amongst professionals and communities as a means of capacity strengthening and to learn from one another’s community development initiatives.

Continuation (including follow up) from earlier TAP II visits to Community Based project and processes. Other cities and processes besides those listed are under consideration.  

Approx 6 exposures per year with approx. 6 - 10  participants in each visiting team.

Exchanges are also part of other components.

Thailand 
Community Based Processes

Surabaya 
Kampong Improvement Programme

Colombo 
Community Based Processes

Karachi
Orangi Pilot Programme and URC 

Bombay 
Savings, Partnerships, Construction 

Under the New Initiatives component regional practices are brought to new areas where community based processes are weak or non-existent. 

This usually involves an exploratory visit to study the country situation and establish a relationship and understanding with local groups. 

Once contacts are established,  regional resource persons and local contacts will lead a process of support through exchange and  / or advice in an effort to catalyze community organization and development processes in the new countries.

Advisory Support: Technical advisory support for groups in need through visits by regional resource persons.

Explorations Under Consideration

Follow up Activities to earlier explorations

The objective of this component is to address the dilemma that most development information is top-down and available primarily in English.

 ACHR - TAP provides opportunities to explore ways in which information can be made accessible to grassroots level practitioners and provides opportunity for bottom up information processes and experimentation with efficient translation methods.

 This programme will be cross-cut other ACHR programmes drawing from their  activities to inform the advocacy process as well as supplementing their activities through support for communication processes.  

Activities