ACHR  ACTIVITIES

Brief Summaries of ACHR's programs are given below.
For further information click the programme title  

ACCA is a programme to support partnership and build strong urban poor communities to secure housing city-wide.
Started end of 2008

Click here for the ACCA homepage

ACCA The First Year 2009 -10

 

TAP
Training & Advisory Programme

1994 - 2010
TAP is a system of mutual learning and support, based on Asian experiences and processes, for Asian grassroots community organisations, NGOs and urban poor development professionals. 
A means to share the rich diversity of Asian experiences in urban poor development
A programme of Exchange. 

Regional Workshops
Country to Country Community and intergrated Exchange Visits
Advisory Visits

People Centred Disaster Recovery

Disaster Response
Mitigation / preparedness
Technical & Social Response groups
Through the ACCA program ACHR can respond quickly with flexible funding for disaster relief, recovery and rehabilitation.

 

Understanding Asian Cities

Research on the urban poor in Asian Cities
City Wide Surveys of the Urban Poor
Asian Cities and Globalisation
Heritage Cities in Asia - Preservation for People

Young Professionals Program

A programme to influence the decision makers of the future by providing opportunities for young graduates to work with and for urban poor communities. Its also aims at change in learning institutions concerned with city development and planning. 

More recently the YPP has a focus on Community Architects in an effort to provide sound technical advice to communities upgrading through ACHR's ACCA program.

 

Information and Communication

Newsletters, Reports, Posters, E-News
Research and Development Reform
Video Regional Network
Urban Poor and Technology : Web sites, GIS, Skype etc
Many of our materials can be downloaded from the ACHR The Download Library

Advocacy

Senior ACHR  members  in Asia attempt to act as advocates on behalf of the regions urban poor, at the local, national, regional and international levels - 
to highlight their views and interests and those of the poor to promote  solutions to city problems.

Below are Previous Programs - now incorporated into the above activities

Eviction Watch & Housing Rights

This programme aimed to document and reduce the number of forced evictions throughout Asian cities as well as introduce alternative methods for solving housing related problems in Asian cities.
Strategies 2006 - 2009

 

Country Projects

In countries in Asia where community based development is either non existent or weaker than in other Asian cities ACHR has established country level programs to catalyze and then strengthen local grassroots organisations of the urban poor. 

Community Environmental Improvement Facility

A programme of community actions to promote change in the institutional decision making,  implementation processes of local government and environmental improvements in urban poor communities. 

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ACHR ACTIVITIES BOOK
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