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September 2007 Earthquakes Indonesia August 29 2007 Evictions Threat in Jakarta, Indonesia Facing eviction, the people living under North Jakarta's Jembatan Tiga expressway, which was recently damaged in a slum fire, remain uncertain about what they will do next. More from the Jakarta Post here February 2007 INDONESIA 2006 December NEW BOOK from Homeless International Bill Clinton to visit Thailand Tsunami affected community December 2, 2006 SEPTEMBER International Tibet Heritage Fund Awarded 2006 AUGUST People Centered Recovery from Disaters Workshop Oct 30 - Nov 1st UNDP, ACHR, CODI, CCT Fdn will collaborate to organise a workshop on People Centered Recovery from Disaters The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate the capacity of the people to develop and manage their own recovery and rehabilitation process and set the agenda for longer term development. Participants from 14 countries . Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Maldives, China, Cambodia, Laos, Viet Nam, Mongolia, Butan, Pakistan, Bangladesh. Downloads Available over the Past Few Months Tsunami Update Newsletter Survivors Speak Out: Transcript of Tsunami Survivors Seminar at WUF3 General Download Library Here People to People Exchanges continue to dominate ACHR activities ACHR's activities calendar shows that the sharing of Asia's rich experience in urban poor development is continuing through people to people exchanges. Particularly prominent is the number of communities and government officers coming to Thailand to see the urban poor's CITY WIDE UP-GRADING programs. The Latest Eviction Alert from Karachi The governor of the province has recently ordered the demolition of a 200 year old village to make way for a controversial expressway. More here 2006 JULY Tsunami Survivors speak out at World Urban Forum "The conventional approach, in which governments and development agencies look at people as passive recipients, should be changed. It's time to throw away that sad old rule-book once and for all. You can hear very clearly from today's discussions that even the very poorest affected people can stand up and be the leaders of the rehabilitation process themselves." 2006 JUNE ALT-E Evictions Strategies Cambodia ACHR has updated it strategies against evictions in Phnom Penh
2006 MAY 20-Year Wait for Housing Ends for Mumbai's Pavement Dwellers There are over a lakh (100,000) people living on the pavement in Mumbai and for women like Khatija Ansari, who received the keys to her new house, today is a red-letter day. "We have been living on the pavement since the last 32 years," said Khatija who hails from Bihar. She has a 10-member family. The Maharashtra Government provided land for the housing while construction was facilitated by the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), an NGO. Mahila Milan, the collective which was formed in 1986, by women from pavement families, actually played a role in designing the 225 sq.ft flats and its members contributed up to Rs 20,000 a family from their own savings towards maintenance of the houses. 2006 MAY Evictions Resume at Bassac, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Eviction took place yesterday at Tonle Bassac; about 1000 families are to be evicted. About 40 families have agreed to move voluntarily but people interviewed were saying that these families are all somehow connected to the local authority and have already occupied 100 plots in the new relocation site, Most people were saying that if they move there, they would have no income, 25 km away from Bassac and therefore few job opportunities…there was some tussle yesterday between the people and the ploice and I think a man died also although no one has said officially ,.. 2006 MAY ACHR's Tsunami Newsletter now in Singhalese and Bassa Indonesian Most development news is top-down and in English. Our friends at SEVANATHA in Sri Lanka have translated all 52 pages of our newsletter on tsunami people-centred recovery efforts in Asia for their grassroots' Singhalese speaking communities. In Indonesia our friends at UPC - UP-Link have translated most into Indonesian and added even more local stories from Aceh.
Meanwhile Peter Swan and friends have completed a video set on people-centred recovery efforts in tsunami affected countries in Asia. We've created master tapes for those who wish to translate narration and sub-titles to local languages.
Part 2 Available on request from ACHR 2006 MAY From June 19-23, UN Habitat and the Canadian government will host the 3rd gathering of the World Urban Forum with the main theme: Sustainable Cities – Turning Ideas into Action. ACHR, a key network organization in the Asia Pacific region, will, host a networking session in WUF3 on the topic of rehabilitation and reconstruction in the tsunami-affected areas. For this networking session, ACHR will bring in 4 teams of community members and leaders from the tsunami-affected areas in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand to share their stories, views and opinions about the actual work of reconstruction and rehabilitation in their own communities. January Bande Aceh, Indonesia Between January 4-8, after the government's big event, the Udeep Beusaree Network hosted its own regional tsunami dialogue with more than 150 participants. ACHR collaborated with the Indonesian groups to give tsunami survivors and supporters from coastal villages in India, Thailand and Sri Lanka a chance to compare notes on all the key issues of rehabilitation (such as land tenure, housing, livelihood revival, dealing with misguided government regulations, etc) with the Acehnese, as well as with some earthquake survivors from Pakistani and Kashmir, and community leaders from several other parts of tsunami-hit Aceh and other parts of Indonesia who are part of the Uplink network.
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