Dec 15
2002 Karachi Pakistan
Lyari
Expressway
City government has resumed the
demolition of houses on 12 December 2002 see details
HERE
While the Pakistan Govt has stated
in court that the Asian Development Bank is funding the Lyari Expressway
project the ADB has denied this. But the ADB has not taken action to
disprove the court statement. Local NGOs believe the ADB somehow is
funding the project indirectly. The project will displace 70,000
families many of whom will not receive any compensation. Updates
HERE
The forced evictions will go head; Musharaf
10 December
COHRE AWARDS for Housing Rights
To mark Human Rights Day, COHRE announces the World's Worst
Housing Rights Violators 2002. Ten countries have been chosen: Burma (Myanmar),
Colombia, Croatia, Guatemala, India, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, USA and Zimbabwe. READ
MORE from the COHRE web site
. Why these countries? READ MORE
from the COHRE web site
COHRE also announces the three winners of its Housing Rights Protector Awards READ
MORE
JULY 25
COLOMBO SRI LANKA
More Pavement Hawkers Evicted in
Colombo
185 Family Homes Demolished for a Playground
More on these stories from SEVANATHA Here
JULY
22 KARACHI PAKISTAN
Updates on Lyari Expressway Evictions
Today the total population of katchi abadi
dwellers along the Lyari corridor stands at approximately 200,000,
all of whom are being removed while their land is being taken over by
the Pakistan government for the construction of the Lyari
Expressway.
The cost of the project is estimated at Rs. 5 billion, and a total of 25,000
houses (98 per cent of which are pukka construction), 3,600 shops
/ commercial units, 50 mosques, 5 churches, 8 temples, 10 schools, 38
clinics, 1 hospital, and 66 factories will be bulldozed. As an
angered resident from Hasan Aula village exclaims "this
is the kind of cruelty our own government is subjecting the awaam
(public) to-- and we are busy crying over India and Israel".
While the validity of the Karachi Northern Bypass is agreed upon,
experts and
analysts maintain that the Lyari Expressway is a project without need.
Architect and urban planner Arif Hasan who has studied Karachi's urban
issues and the Lyari Expressway project at length, maintains that he is
"totally against this project because it is not required".
JULY
8 KARACHI PAKISTAN
Lyari
Expressway Karachi
Horrifying Evictions
Since
27 June 2002 the government has bulldozed over 400 residential and
commercial units.
25,000 homes are threatened.
Out of these 400 evicted only 35 qualified under government conditions to get
alternative land. The resettlement policy is not transparent and
government despite promises did not publish a list of effected families.
NGO and CBOs fears as in past history, mostly " fake people"
will get the land
for resettlement.
" Most
city experts, NGOs and government officials firmly believe that the city
does not need this expressway project."
Urgent Appeal for Support
HERE
JULY
5 COLOMBO SRI LANKA
Situation Improves for Street Hawkers
Over the past months the street hawkers of
Colombo have had their livelihoods threatened by the Colombo City
planners attempts to cleanse the city streets of the informal sector.
After a series of protests and consultations SEVANATHA reports ...
The people who faced for the eviction have received an alternative place
for hawking within the same area. But,
the government has lots of ideas to re-plan and develop most of the city
and this will have serious impacts on the poor and informal sellers
unless plans are developed carefully.
MORE HERE
JUNE 11
VIETNAM
Vietnam 5 Cities Project Wins A Stockholm
Partnerships Award
On
the World Environment Day, 14 final winners were announced and received
the Stockholm Partnerships Award from His Majesty, the King of Sweden,
at a ceremony in Stockholm City Hall. The winners represent innovative
solutions for sustainable development in metropolitan areas from
thirteen countries around the world.
The Vietnam 5 Cities project originally began under UNCHS (in
collaboration with ACHR) but was taken over by ACHR when UNCHS withdrew
from the project. Some Information on the project
HERE
JUNE 3 PAKISTAN
Pakistan, is buried under US $65 billion in
foreign and domestic DEBT,
AND plans to get $500m more from WB on June 12
The World Bank's board meeting
will be held in the first week of July to approve $100m budgetary
support for Sindh government and $90m similar support for NWFP.
The $500m SAC-2 is the biggest amount to be offered to any country in
one single shot at a marginal 0.75 per cent service charges.
See details HERE
For more details from the DEBT
Channel please click
HERE
JUNE 3
DHAKA BANGLADESH
NEW STRATEGIES FOR URBAN
CLEANSING
In Dhaka, new strategies are used to overcome
laws against evictions of the poor.
First, the authorities arrest the men and they spend a few nights in
goal.
While the men are in goal, thugs move into settlements and loot and
harass residents and rape women.
After a few days of such intimidation, the poor women and their children
have no choice but to leave their homes.
Then the men are released with only a few being charged with possession
of drugs or firearms. More HERE
MARCH 21
PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA
Block Tanpa Fire Victims Likely for Relocation
Over the past few days
rooftop dwellers of Block Tanpa have camped out on the street nearby the
building on which they lived atop for 10 years and more. Families were
distraught when the Municipality declared they could not return to their home sites
but would be relocated to plots in rice fields miles from the
city. After rapid land searches and negotiations with the Municipality
it now appears a settlement has been agreed to by both sides with a resettlement
site much closer to the city. With the community SUPF, UPDF, UNCHS and
the MPP now in agreement on the site the conditions of resettlement:
price of land, housing loans, plot sizes etc need to be negotiated over
the next few days.
MORE HERE with pix of the fire aftermath, and the NEW land.
MARCH 13 JAKARTA
INDONESIA
Attack on Urban Poor Consortium Rally
The Urban Poor Consortium (UPC),
led by Wardah Hafidz was attacked by a group of Betawi people at 10.15am
in an attempt to stop them protesting against Governor Sutiyoso’s
mishandling of the flood crisis. The group wielded daggers and swords,
physically threatened Wardah, and chased the protestors away. Then at
1.30pm, in a separate incident, the office of KontraS (Commission for
Missing Persons and Victims of Violence) was virtually demolished by a
gang of hundreds of Ambonese people who arrived in a series of buses.
Munir, the founder of Kontras, was personally attacked in the bathroom of
the office by 5 or 6 people, but managed to escape with minor injuries.
The attackers demanded that he call off investigations into the killing of
students by the military in 1998 and 1999. Three others suffered injuries
in the attack.
MARCH 12 2002
PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA
Block Tanpa Fire Destroys Rooftop Community
Block
Tanpa a 4 -5 story building in central Phnom Penh, experienced a fire
yesterday morning. Like
many buildings in Phnom Penh urban poor families often build dwellings
on the rooftops of large blocks. The fire destroyed the 247 homes
of the rooftop community affecting
about 1200 people.
People currently camped nearby are being fed temporarily while the NGOs
and other donors including the DFID UNCHS project are putting together
other relief packages. It seems that the Governor of the City has agreed
to let the people go back if the building has not been structurally
damaged. They are supposed to take tests today.
About 1000 people slept on the pavements last night. ACHR
partners, the Urban Resource Centre and Solidarity for the Urban Poor
Federation, are all in actions to help.
Pictures and More News HERE
Cambodia Update HERE
March
13 2002 KARACHI PAKISTAN
Lyari Expressway Evictions Delayed
Then Resumed
Updated News:
The authorities here resumed demolition operation on Wednesday 13th March
and bulldozed a large number of commercial units. According to government
sources, this phase of the operation will continue for next 5 days.
Meanwhile another group 25 other shopkeepers of Shershah Market from Lyari
river bed got stay order from High Court.
More
Here
Road to
disaster? Much has
been written about the Lyari Expressway but confusion about the project
still exists. Munazza Siddiqi presents a guide to understanding the
various complications around the Expressway. HERE
Jan
21 KARACHI PAKISTAN
Freeway
Threatens Largest Evictions in Karachi's History
The
government is under taking the largest bulldozing operation ever seen in the history of Karachi city.
Over
25,000 homes will be bulldozed. The
communities have been given three days notice to vacate their houses.
The government started the bulldozing
operation last Monday 21 January 2002. The entire area is surrounded
by the police and para military forces.
The
communities feel the government has betrayed them by false promises of
decent resettlement (relocation) before bulldozing their houses, which
they built over years through their life savings.
JAN
23 Update
Over 2000 residential and commercial units were bulldozed in last two
days (21 and 22 January 02) in 2.5 kilometer length of the Lyari river.
only 14 persons qualified for government compensation of Rs 50,000 and a
80 square yards at city fringes. Later on the number was further reduced
to 10 persons only.
Urgent
Support needed More
HERE
Nov
27 JAKARTA INDONESIA
Massive
Confiscations and Evictions
Since
1999 the regional
government of Jakarta conducted massive confiscation and destruction of
the means of livelihood of the urban poor in the city. According to the
Urban Poor Consortium and other NGOs,
a total of 34,165 pedicab drivers, food vendors, and car wash providers
lost their work between January to September 2001. At an average of three
dependents, usually wife and two children, a total of 102,495 persons
lost the means of living in the same period. In October 2001 the
regional government reported
to the media that it had confiscated 11,400 pedicabs,
stored them in a warehouse and would
dump them into the sea to serve as fish shelters.
From
August 2001 until the meeting and pledging session of the Consultative Group on
Indonesia in early November, and up to the writing of this report, the
regional government has conducted massive forced evictions and demolitions
resulting in the displacement of thousands of poor households. For
instance, in the month October a partial monitoring conducted by NGOs
showed that some 2,470 families or 9,880 people were displaced either
due to forced evictions or arson or a combination of both
More HERE
from ACHR's Fact Finding Mission and photos
(from Afrazal UPC) of the state's intimidating and violent eviction
process .
Nov 27 PHNOM PENH CAMBODIA
Another Massive Fire in BASSAC
Phnom Penh
Homes of more than 2,000
families were destroyed in another fire at Phnom Penh's largest urban
poor community. This follows several other recent fires. The
area is close to the river in the heart of the city and is being redeveloped
by the authorities. Picture Here
NOV 29:
Two in a Row: Another Massive Fire
An urban poor community of
mostly Vietnamese people in Phnom Penh was on fire yesterday.
Another 1,858 families were made homeless and would not be able to
resettle back in the same place as the city's authorities had previously
tried to persuade the people to leave the area, which has been earmarked
for redevelopment.
OCT
30 SOUTH AFRICA
Vusi Nsuntsha
"Last
night Vusi Nsuntsha was shot and killed by hijackers in Soweto, Johannesburg.
We have suffered a devastating loss. As an organisation we lost one of
our stalwarts. As individuals we were deprived of a friend we believed
was going to be with us for decades to come. ... "
Joel Bolnick
People Dialogue South Africa
A small dedication to Vusi is HERE
OCTOBER 1st is HABITAT
DAY
Let us know What you are doing
Bangkok Thailand More
than 3,00 people from communities in Bangkok will walk thru the streets of
old Bangkok to deliver letters to the Prime Minister Taksin, thence rally
at ESCAP. Events will run from noon to midnight.
Phnom Penh Cambodia The
Solidarity for the Urban Poor Federation and UPDF will start off a series
of workshops on Land and Housing for the poor for all urban actors
culminating on October 22. Surabaya
Indonesia Our friend Prof
Johan Silas will help host Indonesia's governors in Habitat
workshops. President Megawatti will also visit an urban poor
community that has participated in Surabaya's successful Kampung
Improvement Programme. Jakarta
Indonesia .
To
mark Habitat Day, thousands of urban residents from Jakarta, Bandung and
other cities will converge in
Jakarta on October 1. They will hold demonstrations at the UN Office and
the presidential palace to raise awareness and present demands to:
· stop the confiscation of becaks(pedicabs) and other wares of the
informal sector
· stop the arrests of pedicab drivers, sidewalk vendors, street musicians
and others
· stop the eviction and demolition of urban poor houses, foodstalls, and
other work places of the informal sector
The demonstrators will then proceed to the kampungs in Jakarta where they will
hold discussions with the community.
Jakarta’s
urban poor will demonstrate at the World Bank office to let them know that
the theme ( Cities Without Slums ) they launched for the habitat day
this year has taken its first casualties, i.e., the urban poor of Jakarta.
In the afternoon the UPC will organize a discussion on change and
marginalisation, in cooperation with an artist who is exhibiting his
paintings on becak, and a national daily, one of the biggest in the
country. We will also show the authorities (the Bank, the UN, and the
local and national government) the things the urban poor have achieved:
they have strongly organised; they collectively improve the infrastructure
of their settlements; they create jobs of their own. All are in contrast
with problems and difficulties the authorities have created for them.
See Update on Urban Poor Crisis in Jakarta HERE Fukuoka
Japan The Cities Without
Slum Awards will honour our friends of the Orangi Pilot Project in
Karachi, Pakistan
More on this HERE
SEPT
JAKARTA INDONESIA
Jakarta's Poverty Elevation Programme
Jakarta's governor is continuing
his "clean up" drive targeting thousands of informal sector
workers - pedi-cab drivers, sidewalk vendors and street musicians
- as well as evicting families forcibly from urban poor settlements in
Jakarta. He has refused to dialogue with representatives of the
urban poor. The local Urban Poor Consortium director Wardah Hadfiz
has been threatened with arrest. Nearly 2,000 pedicabs have been
confiscated, 700 houses demolished and thousands of arrests have taken
place over the past few months. More HERE
AUGUST
BEIJING CHINA
Let the Games Begin
Olympics and Evictions
"Usually
the people get about ten days notice, then their houses are demolished.
Where do they go?
The government offers them a flat in a high-rise very far away.
But they have to pay to get it.
So some people just disappear, others take up the offer.
They get some compensation for their old site, but the new site the
government says it’s more valuable because it has a toilet there. Old neighborhoods
are decimated, networks of relationships broken and livelihoods destroyed.
"
Around 50,000 houses will be
affected.
More HERE
AUGUST
10 PAKISTAN
Congratulations! OPP Win HABITAT AWARD
The Orangi Pilot Project -Research &
Training Institute has been awarded the World Habitat Award 2000 on the
theme "Cities without Slums". Perween Rahman, Director of
OPP-RTI will accept the award on October 1st 2001 in Fukuoka Japan. Arif
Hasan reports that the staff and Orangi residents are overjoyed.
JUNE
26, CAMBODIA
Prime Minister Hun Sen visit to New
Relocation site
The
Prime Minister Hun Sen will visit a new relocation site at Toul Chungrouk.
SUPF (the Savings Federation) and the UPDF will attempt to discuss with
the PM a wider perspective for urban poor development. Apart from
relocations of the urban poor the Federation and friends are attempting to
persuade government into a community upgrading partnership
processes. UPDATE on
SUPF HERE
JUNE 7
-13 THE WORLD BANK AND PAKISTAN
Pakistan Citizens
Protest More World Bank Loans
June
7th
Prominent professionals from all
fields send their concerns on World Bank Loans to Pakistan:
Concerns included:
“ .. in spite of massive World Bank
loans for poverty alleviation, poverty in Pakistan was on the increase
and large scale environmental damage has taken place due to World Bank /
ADB funded and designed projects. There is also a feeling that this
increase is largely due to World Bank and IMF policies. Concerns were
also voiced regarding World Bank conditionalities, which increase the
cost of projects by two to three hundred percent of locally funded and
executed ones.
Opinions were also expressed that the institutional deterioration, which
has been given as one of the reason for World Bank failures has actually
been caused by WB policies. “
June
12th
World Bank Approves $350 Million Structural
Adjustment Credit
The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$350 million Structural
Adjustment Credit (SAC) for Pakistan. The single tranche balance of
payment credit aims to support structural reforms underway in Pakistan,
focusing on governance, economic growth and social service delivery.
The World Bank also approved a US$21.35 million credit for the North
West Frontier Province (NWFP) On-Farm Water Management Project.
June
13
Protest meetings against World
Bank and IMF policies held in Karachi Pakistan
Arif Hasan has
advocated changes in debt servicing in the best interests of the country
(Pakistan) besides demanding immediate refusal to the appointment of
foreign experts. Other experts are also questioning World Bank
Loans
READ more detail of these stories here including the REASONS WHY
PAKISTAN CITIZENS are protesting these loans and conditions. HERE
JUNE 2 Phnom
Penh CAMBODIA
Cylco Drivers Ride to Raise
Funds
The
Cyclo Center members Phnom Penh will be riding their cyclo's to
Kampong Cham and back (124km each way) on the 4th and 5th
of June 2001.
The money raised from sponsorship will be used to fund the Cyclo Centre
and its activities.
Cyclo drivers are one of the most
disadvantaged group in the city. Their income is usually little more
than $1 per day, they don't have a place to call their home apart from
their cyclo, and they are vulnerable to robbers and health problems. Yet
driving a cyclo is their opportunity to earn a living, not only for them
but also for their families in the provinces.
The
Cyclo Centre is a place where the cyclo drivers can meet, share ideas,
have access to basic services, and develop opportunities to help
themselves.
SPONSOR a CYLCO DRIVER write to the Cylco Centre
For more
information, contact:
Meas Kim Seng (coordinator) or Claire Liousse at the Urban Resource
Centre (URC), House no 27AEo, Street 334, Boeung Keng Kang 1.
phone 023 211 474
e-mail
urcpp@forum.org.kh
JUNE
1 NEW YORK
Istanbul + 5
Habitat 1 + 25 begins this week
From Sheela
Patel:
Finally its time to pack bags and
spend a week in New York.
Shack Dwellers International (SDI) a network of national NGOs and
community federations working on issues of urban Habitat, equity and
poverty in cities will send a delegation of 20 people to spend a week in
New York between 3rd and 8th June. More than anything this is an
adventure exploring how all of us who are local activists can work to
bring local voices and issues in global foras like the Istanbul +5
review in the UN .
The programme of SDI activities is here
Share your views on Habitat issues and
strategies over the past 5 years and / or suggests some news directions
and priorities for the coming years. See what others are saying
HERE
MAY 29
BANGKOK THAILAND
Expressway
Authority Gives in To Ban Krua Community
Congratulations to
Ban Krua community in the center of Bangkok who have fought successfully
for more than a decade to prevent a freeway from decimating their
historic settlement. The Bangkok Post has announced that the Expressway
Authority of Thailand has stopped it's attempts to build a freeway cut
off thru Ban Krua and will not peruse a proposed 3rd Public Hearing
after being defeated in it's first 2 attempts.
This story will be featured on Earth
Report on BBC World June 11 -17th
Other stories concerning ACHR - SDI affiliates in Cambodia, India, South
Africa, Zimbabwe and the Philippines will also feature on Earth Report's
special programmes in June to coincide with Istanbul +5
Earth Report
is broadcast weekly on BBC World
at the following times
GMT Monday at 0330 & 2130, Tuesday at 0830, 1130 & 1430,
Wednesday at 0130 & 0530, Saturday at 1830, Sunday at 0730
MAY 28
CAMBODIA
FIRE AT BASSAC 500 families
homeless
Bassac is Phnom
Penh's largest urban poor community. According to the surveys conducted
by the Sangkat there were 547 households directly rendered homeless by
fire disaster at the Bondosvichea neighbourhood. These families, whether
they owned their own house or rented from others, lost virtually all of
their household possessions including food, clothing, furniture and
kitchen utensils. On the Friday and Saturday nights they were sheltered
temporarily in the nearby school and temple.
The UNCHS urban poor project in PP is attempting to use its emergency
funds to help. And has proposed that the Municipality permit the project
and its various NGOs partners to explore and identify possible temporary
housing sites, where suitable basic facilities could be provided before
the people occupy them
MORE SOON
MAY 20
Vietnam
The Beginning of the Urban Poor Fund in
Vietnam
March
6 -7 ACHR and UNCHS facilitated a
workshop in Quynon, Vietnam and with the help of communities and
Mayors from 4 cities formulated and agreed on the structure and
functions of Community Development Fund to be set up and implement in
the cities of Quynon, Hai-Doung, Vietri and Cantho. Community
members from Thailand went along to sharer their experiences of a
similar process in Thailand.
The UNCHS is in the process of sub-contracting
the activities to ACHR until it resumes its project around Dec
this year. MORE SOON
MAY 17 KENYA
Pamoja Trust and the Federation in
Nairobi begin Enumerations
Community members from South Africa,
India and Zimbabwe - from Shack / Slum Dwellers International -SDI -
with local groups in Nairobi, Kenya - began an enumeration and mapping
process in the poor communities of Nairobi last week. The process not
only arms local communities with information but catalyses community organizations
to begin the next stage of mapping and establishing savings groups. For
the immediate future the first surveys, with the help of SDI members,
prepared the local group the Pamoja Trust and the local federation to
take on the larger task of enumeration in Nairbo's largest slum
Khorojocho.
We will soon give background and
updates on this new process in Kenya.
MORE SOON
MAY 7
HABITAT
At the time of Istanbul +5 ......
Share your views on Habitat issues and
strategies over the past 5 years and / or suggests some news directions
and priorities for the coming years. See what others are saying HERE
Take 15 minutes - write 400 words on
"At the Time of Istanbul + 5 .......
Send it to achrsec@email.ksc.net
APRIL
12 Bangkok
Thailand
CODI Co-opted into Prime Minister’s Million Baht per Village Program
Thailand’s CODI
(Community Organisations Development Institute) will help the new
Prime Minister fulfill an election promise of distributing 1 million
bath to each of the poorest of rural Thai villages.
A larger meeting between Government and CODI and community
networks is scheduled for around May 6.
APRIL 12
SDI International
Slum Dwellers International Presence
at Habitat Plus 5
SDI Slum Dwellers
International has decided to gather groups from Africa and Asia
to be present at the UN’s next summit Istanbul Plus 5 –
5
years after the habitat summit in Istanbul.
The meeting will held in New York in June 2001
More news on this soon. SDI members can contact Sheela Patel
(SPARC ) for details. sparc1@vsnl.com
APRIL
8 Thailand
SOLID WASTE NETWORK Established
Thailand’s CODI
and communities involved in Solid Waste Management and recycling from
more than 6 cities in Thailand held an Exchange of Experiences at
Chulalongkorn University last week. A Solid Waste Network was formed and combined actions were
planned. Groups from the private and government sector also attended.
More on this soon.
APRIL
INTERNATIONAL
COHRE NEWSLETTER No 3
The Center of
Housing Rights and Evictions has just published it’s 3rd
monthly newsletter. It’s well worth reading and is available at
COHRE’s web site HERE. Topics include:
Bangladesh
Fact-Finding Mission ( on Housing and Evictions)
Zimbabwe
Fact-Finding Mission (on
Housing and Evictions)
Restitution
and Housing Rights
South Africa: Courts & the Application of Social, Economic &
Cultural Rights
Eviction
News
New
Film on ESC Rights
COHRE
Research News, Women & Housing Rights Programme
Asia and Pacific Programme
China Ratifies
ESC Rights Covenant
The
New COHRE Website Goes Online
COHRE
on the Road
Board
News
APRIL
ASIA
ACHR TAP Exchange Program
APRIL 2001
Groups from
Pakistan, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in Nepal
Focus:
success stories over the past few years and the potential for
sub-regional exchanges. Postponed from April until second half of May in
Katmandu
Sri Lanka
Exchange to Thailand and Philippines
Focus: Colombo
municipalities are in the process of contracting communities to become
involved in solid waste management. An integrated team of 9 people from
Municipality, community and NGO has just completed an exchange visit to
Thailand and the Philippines under ACHR’s TAP programme in
collaboration with UNCHS.
Thais and
Indians to Nepal
Focus:
Secure Tenure and Urban
Poor Fund.
ACHR and SDI will meet with groups in Nepal this week to
discuss prospects for
a) Secure Tenure Campaign
Launch in Nepal.
b) establishing an
urban poor development fund in collaboration with the federation of
savings groups
ACHR
to Vietnam
Focus:
Savings in Vietnam. ACHR will meet
with communities and local officials from
6 – 7 mid-level cities in Vietnam to set up an urban poor
community development fund. Somsook Boonyabancha and Celine D’Cruz will attend. Postponed
until May 8-9.
Thais to
Laos
Focus:
Savings Funds. Thai groups from the CODI networks will continue
the exchange to Laos this month to strengthen savings groups and
the newly established urban poor community fund.
Thais to
Cambodia
Focus:
Savings and Urban Poor Development Fund. The
UPDF has extended its housing loans programme to 2 new re-location sites
in Phnom Penh over the past 2 months involving hundreds of families with
housing loans of approximately $400 each.
The Phnom Penh Municipality has requested ACHR to help extend the
UPDF to 10 more cities in Cambodia. Preliminary surveys will begin this
month.
SDI Exchange Programme
in Africa APRIL – JUNE 2001
APRIL
Kenya group to India. April
9 – 14
Focus:
Savings and Partnerships with govt.
Zimbabwe
Federation to Western Cape South Africa
-April 30 May 4
Focus
central funds and leadership; refugee communities.
MAY
SDI Meeting Joberg or Cape Town 11- 13 May
Focus:
decision making processes; relationships between professionals and
communities, other on-going issues.
Indians, South
Africans, Zimbabweans to
Nairobi, Kenya
Focus
on Enumeration of slum settlements
Madagascar
and South African groups to Namibia
Focus
Community Partnerships with government to provide water and sanitation
to settlements.
South
African team to Madagascar.
Focus:
Information and Savings and negotiating around resettlement issues
JUNE
SDI teams form Africa and Asia to New York
Focus:
HABITAT Istanbul +5.
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