Partner News

IIED -América Latina have produced a video 'El Agua era un Sueño' (water was a dream) in English.

This was an output from the joint project 'Improving Urban Water and Sanitation provision Globally: through information and action driven locally'.
Links to the 4-part video can be found here. They are also available on IIED-América Latina's site www.iied-al.org.ar

More information on the project can be found in the project summary on the Water and Sanitation page

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Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) releases Apr-May-Jun 09 e-newsletter, 

The Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) programmme has completed its first 6 months.
It will aim to make people the centre of each city's urban poor development process

A new ACCA website is now running which makes the programme's reports and meetings available to everyone

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Development Workshop Angola launched its new web page on Peace Building (April 09).

The page shows the activities achieved by the Peace Sector on PECE-II - Civic and Electoral Education Project funded by EU, Dutch Embassy, Oxfam Novid, NiZA and DW.

The Peace sector will do the best to have its activities plan shown in the page.

Peace and citzenship webpage

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Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) releases new Feb-March 09 e-newsletter, features include:

* Womens Bank celebrates its 20th anniversary
* New Urban Poor Fund started in Moratuwa
* Big breakthroughs in land tenure in Vietnam
* New collaboration between UNHabitat and ACHR
 
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African Cities Reader launch

In 2008 African Centre for Cities (ACC) entered into a partnership with Chimurenga Magazine to undertake an annual web-based vehicle on public culture in African cities, titled: African Cities Reader (ACR). The theme for the first call for papers was Pan-Africanism as a Practice, in recognition that all African cities are the product of multiple trajectories and origins, which implies that the living, breathing, pulsating fact of African cities adds up to a form of 'pan-Africanism' that is more interesting than the tired tropes of pan-African Nationalism that remains the stock and trade of many official discourses about transnational and trans-local practices on the continent. A range of submissions was received and in addition, the editors selected a number of previously published works to compile the first ACR, which will be launched on Africa Day, 25 May 2009. Some of the contributors to the first ACR include artists, writers and activists such as: Chris Abani, Akin Adesokan, Gabeba Baderoon, Nurridin Farah, Lesley Lokko, Domonique Malaquais, Jyoti mistri, Paul James Yuma, amongst many other exciting contributors.

Contact: edgar.pieterse@uct.ac.za

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