This study of the community savings groups in Erdenet city, which are being supported by the Urban Resource Development Center (UDRC), was carried out by Eva Maria Gardemann in July 2007.

This report, from June 2005, was written by Arif Hasan, after he made a first exploratory trip to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. The visit was made in coordination with UN-ESCAP, which has initiated a housing and infrastructure support program in Ulaanbaatar.

This is the report from the regional CAN workshop that was held in Yangon, Myanmar, in November 2019. The workshop, which focused on developing a set of strategic planning guidelines for developing community-led housing in Yangon's South Dagon Township, was jointly organized by CAN and by the Yangon-based NGO Women for the World, with good support from the city-level and township-level local authorities, the local network of women's savings groups and other local professionals.

This set of notes about the housing situation in Yangon, Myanmar, were prepared for participants in the regional Community Architects Network (CAN) workshop that took place in Yangon, Myanmar, in November 2019. The CAN workshop in Yangon was hosted by the Women for the World NGO.

This newsletter is a special issue on the exciting community-driven process that has taken off in Myanmar, since the Cyclone Nargis hit in May 2008 - much of it supported by ACCA. The newsletter profiles several of the very early community-driven housing projects in Yangon, being supported by the Women for the World NGO.