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New Publications and Resources |
from ACHR and Friends |
New
Book August 2002
The
Unplanned
Revolution
Observations on the Process of
Socio-Economic Change in Pakistan |
by Arif Hasan
During the last Century, and especially since
independence, major demographic, social and economic changes have taken
place in Pakistan. These changes are so enormous that they may be
termed revolutionary. However they have not been institutionalised
in any form. The result is that the manner in which the Pakistan state is
structured and governed, the manner in which its fiscal system operates,
and development is conceived, managed and implemented, does not reflect the
changed demographic, social, cultural and economic realities. This in turn
has resulted in the creation of parallel systems of governance in defiance
of state laws and regulations; political and cultural alienation of
increasingly large sections of the population; social anarchy and the
resulting administrative and judicial helplessness.
available from ACHR
and City Press Karachi 270 pages |
VIDEO CD from the Urban
Poor Consortium
- 15 minutes Floods and Politics
in Jakarta
The UPC and Urban Poor communities battle the floods earlier this year and the
city Governor.
Video CDs from
SPARC India
1. Slum Dwellers International - SDI at the Habitat Istanbul Plus 5
in New York 20 minutes
2. SANITATION
Contents: Jockin on BBC, Chohalwadi Setting Precedents;
Inauguration at Shivaji Nagar;
Pune Toilets, Partnerships, Sandas Mela,
New Rituals
3. Compilation of Earlier
Videos: "Enumeration" - to organise the
poor Beyond the Beaten Track
India Business week Model House
Exhibition Mutpii Story 2001
4. SPARC Compilation Video:
Dream Come True; Financing Community Dreams; Talking Garbage;
Dr Annas Tubaiuka's visit Sept 2001
February 2002
ACHR Newsletter Housing by People No. 14 Special Issue on
ACHR Newsletter Housing by People No. 14 Special Issue on
Community
Funds in
Thailand, Pakistan, South Africa, Cambodia, Namibia, India, Philippines,
Lao PDR, Vietnam
and Sri Lanka. 32 pages
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Available from ACHR or Download from here
Solid Waste Management Study Karachi
Pakistan by Arif Hasan 56 pages
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Available from ACHR from February 2002
January 2002
| Working
with Communities |
by
Arif Hasan |
The capacity and capability of
government institutions can never be successfully built without pressure from
organised and knowledgeable groups at the grassroots.
Government officials and agencies respond positively if research findings and
development alternatives are supported by large scale on-site work and public
involvement. However where powerful contractors, consultants and interests of
international loan pushing agencies exist the reservations regarding the
alternatives turn into active opposition. ( Lessons of the Orangi Pilot
Project - Research & Training Institute )
From the New Book (198p)
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Available from ACHR from February 2002
June 2001
ACHR Newsletter Housing by People No. 13
download from here
Other Recent Newsletters
Available
SELAVIP Newsletter April 2001
UCDO UPDATE No.2 October 2000
ACHR now has available from SOCO Hong
Kong copies of the
SURVEY Report on CAGE-HOMES in HONG KONG
and
Extracts on Housing of the Hong Kong Govt's Report
to the UN Committee on Economic and Cultural Relations
Evictions
The Report from COHRE and ACHR resulting from the
Fact Finding Mission to Bangladesh on Housing Rights and Evictions
Urban Poor Housing Finance in
Thailand
Somsook Boonyabancha's address to the UN HABITAT meeting in June 2001
NEW
BOOKS
Housing For the Poor
This book brings together eight
reports on Pakistan’s housing sector prepared by Arif Hasan over the
last 14 years, all of which turn a critical eye on the government’s
housing policies and the informal sector and community responses to
these policies. The book
looks at several important and innovative housing initiatives and
places them within the social, economic and political realities of
Pakistan in general, and low-income groups in particular.
Transforming Urban Settlements
This book by S. Akbar Zaidi is the
first in-depth, independent, critical assessment of the Orangi Pilot
Project’s Low-cost sanitation program.
It looks at the values and organizational culture which have
shaped the organization, and the methodology of its work.
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Copies
of these books are available from ACHR or can be ordered directly from
the City Press publisher.
CITY
PRESS, 316 Madina City Mall,
Abdullah Haroon Road,
Saddar, Karachi 74400,
PAKISTAN
Tel
(92-21) 565-0623
E-mail:
aaj@digicom.net.pk
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Finance and Empowerment: Shack
Dwellers International
Bolnick, Joel; Mitlin, Diana
PELIP (1999) [Paper presented at Housing Micro-Finance Conference,
22 - 24 November 1999, Pelip, Port Elizabeth, South Africa]
Available at http://www.ids.ac.uk/cgap/static/1842.htm
Click the links below to go to brief reviews of the following NEW resources.
Each is available from ACHR Sec in Bangkok
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Understanding Karachi
Planning and Reform for the Future
by Arif Hasan
Architect, Researcher and
Development Activist
Karachi is Pakistan’s only port and its main commercial and
industrial city. It was also its first capital.
Since the country’s independence in 1947, Karachi’s
population increased, mainly through migration, from 450,000 to 10 million in
1998. Migration has changed the ethnic composition not only of the city but also
of the province in which it is located, creating social, economic and political
stress.
Over the years, various ambitious plans were prepared for the
city but could not be implemented for a variety of political, technical and
institutional reasons. As a result, much of Karachi’s employment, housing and
physical and social infrastructure needs could not be met.
This demand-supply gap is increasingly met by informal service
providers, whom the citizens of Karachi refer to as ‘mafias’. These ‘mafias’
operate through a powerful nexus with bureaucrats and politicians, which further
weakens the state institutions or, indeed, makes them redundant.
Because of these factors, powerful lobbies of contractors and
consultants (both local and foreign) are able to promote inappropriate but
profit-making plans for the city and use foreign loans for them; developers are
able to acquire land by manipulating illegal evictions and burnings of
low-income settlements; land-use and traffic regulations can be violated with
impunity; master plans remain unimplemented, and law enforcing agencies fail to
provide protection to citizens from crime, violence and extortion.
In Understanding Karachi, Arif Hasan, a renowned Karachi
architect, researcher and development activist, gives the background of Karachi’s
present situation and describes the actors and factors - and their relationship
to each other - that are determining the direction and nature of Karachi’s
development and hence shaping its social and physical environment. He also
proposes practical solutions to the city’s problems based on the work of
selfless CBOs, NGOs, professionals and concerned citizens who are struggling -
with increasing success - for the creation of a new and better system of
governance.
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Arif Hasan (center)
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Low Cost Housing Information
Summary of presentations at TAP Workshop in Cebu, Philippines 1998.
Selections of the most useful
information emerging from last years ACHR-TAP workshop, including presentations
by groups from many countries in Asia, has been published by Bimbo Fernandes
from Cebu, Philippines. The original workshop document (over 100 pages of
diagrams and written information) organised and edited by Wee Aik Pang and Wuria
Karadaghy will be made available on CD Rom.
Contact Bimbo at lihok@cnms.net
for the summary document and ACHR Sec for the CD at achrsec@email.ksc.net
SELAVIP Journal of Low Income Housing in Asia and the World
- October 2001 April 2001
Over 150 pages of news from urban poor NGOs, grassroots groups and
professionals
Available from ACHR or
Pagtambayayong Foundation at pagtamba@durian.usc.edu.ph
Community News Magazine No. 3 - Video
This is the third of the video series focusing on Thai urban poor community issues, activities and processes. Divided
into 5 to 10 minute segments this volume contains stories on:
Networking in
Chiangmai;
The Savings Group Network
in Songkhla;
Income Generation and Community
Enterprise projects;
Communities Living under Bangkok Bridges;
The Implications
of the New Thai Constitution.
Available in Thai or English from ACHR.
People to People Exchanges produce impacts way beyond the immediate learnings
and sharings between communities.
"With community to community exchanges
people are not being put into situations where their dependence on external
agents is being reinforced. In fact, these exchanges become liberating
experiences because people in very similar context to themselves are showing
them answers, rather than having answers shown to them by professionals."
A
new video produced by SPARC entitled "Skoteni ....Moving Around"
examines some of the benefits resulting from their decade long experience of
community to community exchanges within India through Mahila Milan and the
National Slum Dwellers Federation, in Asia through ACHR - TAP and
internationally through Slum Dwellers International. Video
Available from ACHR
or SPARC at sparc1@vsnl.com
Community Exchanges - Magazine
A 32 page tabloid style magazine "Face To Face" documenting
experiences and history of community to community exchanges over the past 10
years will be published by ACHR in early 2000 - with support from PILOTLIGHT
(UK). Editor Tom Kerr has collected information, stories and analysis from Asia
and Africa as well as some "northern" experiences. If you have
community to community exchange stories send them to Tom at ACHR in Bangkok:
achr@loxinf.co.th
Text Version is now available on the SDI
Website.
Face to Face Part 1 3 and 3 is now available on this site HERE
If you wish to be on our Newsletter mailing list send address details to achr@loxinf.co.th
For More Information Contact:
ACHR Sec Bangkok Thailand
Tel: 66 2 538 0919
FAX: 66 2 539 9950
achr@loxinf.co.th
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