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The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights is a regional network of grassroots community organizations,
NGO's and  professionals actively involved with urban poor development processes in Asian cities
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UPDF Newsletter 10 Years
June 2008

Special Edition Urban Poor Development Fund Cambodia
20 pages on savings, loans, community funds, up-grading, partnership, welfare, expansion beyond Phnom Penh, scale.

PDF file 2.4 mgs text and photos

Savings & Credit & Community Funds
June 2008

Report from the intenational meeting of practioners of Flexibale Finance by People for People
52 pages PDF file 2.2 MGs text and photos

Newsletter No.17
November 2007 2005

Savings and Community Funds
Special ACHR Newsletter on The Finds Poor Communities Put Together and Managhe Themselves

36 pages PDF file 3.48 Mgs text and photos

Bangladesh Urban Poor
May 2007

Urban Poor Housing in Bangladesh and Potential Role of ACHR
An exploratory visit with recommendations for ACHR by
K. Iftekhar Ahmed. PhD
29 pages PDF file 576 KBs text and photos

Up-grading Cambodia
November 2006

In Cambodia - After 3 years of Community Up-grading
3 pages text and photos PDF file less than 1 mgbs

Exchange Visit
Sept 2006

New Orleans Survivors Exchange Visit to Thailand
27 pages text and photos PDF file 1.4 mgs

Newsletter Update
August 2006

Tsunami Update
16 pages text and photos PDF file 1.3 Mgs

Survivors Speak
August 2006


Transcript of Tsunami Survivors Seminar at WUF3
August 2006 June 2006

POF file 1.3 Mgs on disc text graphics photos

Newsletter No.16
October 2005


Tsunami in Asia - People centered recovery efforts
Full PDF File text graphics and photos 1.8 MBS
52 pages - text and graphics - no photos PDF file 1.5 Mgs
MS Word file text only

ACHR Activities
October 2005

ACHR Activities Book 2004
ACHR ACTIVITIES BOOK 2004
MS-word file 800 Kbs 85 pages

CODI Thailand
April 2006

The Community Organisation Development Institute
Go here to download the Bann Mankong Handbook on City Wide Up-grading
CODI - The First 4 Years
from Somsook Boonyabancha 68kbs
forthcoming in Fr Jorge Anzorena's Journal on Housing in Asia and the World
Deepening Community Welfare in Thailand conversation with Somsook Boonyabancha 212 kb
NEW APRIL 10 2006
Tom Kerr's visit to Bann Mankong projects in Eastern Thailand
Tom's notes in a 64kb Word document

Development Reform - Research
October 2005

Understanding Asian Cities
Synthesis of Research and Discussions
32 pages PDF file 1.6 megabytes - with photos

Kararchi Exec Summary 215 kbs
Puna 692 kbs
Muntinlupa conclusions 32 kbs
Phnom Pehn final chapter and conclusions 96 kbs
Hanoi 368 kbs
Beijing - Historic section of Beijing 152 kbs
Chiang-mai - conclusion 144kbs

For an outline of the process of UAC go here on this web site


Exchange
February 2004
Thailand and East Timor communities
Word File HERE
118 kbs about 1 minute

Newsletter No.15
December 2003

How Poor Communities Deal with Evictions
PDF file Full Text Graphics Photos 2.35 megabytes
PDF file Full text no photos
438 kbytes
Word FIile Text only 423 bytes

Brochure
May 2003

5th Anniversary of the UPDF Cambodia
As a Word file 133 Kbs
AS PDF file with photos 1Mgb

Newsletter No. 14
February 2002

Community Funds
PDF file  text, graphics and photos  (32 pages) as a  1.71 MB
PDF file   text & graphics but no photos 350 kbs
Word 6 file as as simple text 220 kbs


UPLink Newsletter
September 2002

Indonesian Lead up to Asian People's Dialogue 2
MS Word File HERE ( 30 seconds)
PDF Text and Photo HERE 1.2 Mgb
An acount of the event - APD2 - is on this website starting here


Newsletter No.13
June 2001

Good News - Bad News
PDF file text, graphics and photos   2.09 MB
PDF file text & graphics but no photos 350 KB
Word 6 file as a simple text 332 KB


Newsletter No. 12
April 1999

Urban Poor Partenerships
PDF file text, graphics and photo
3.71 MB
Word 6 file
as a simple text 384 KB